Here’s everyone singing Happy Birthday to You while Ess continually asks where her cake is.

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Ess loves this. Doesn’t know how to pedal yet (her legs don’t reach, which doesn’t help); so we’re going to add in the ‘Ess gets to steer’ feature soon.

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This book is called I Know a Monkey and it is about Ess’ stuffed monkey Marge. In the book, it calls the monkey “he” but we change it to “she”.

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“What do you want for you birthday, Ess?”
“Pink deek.”
“Pink cake? Anything else?”
“Pink deek.”

Custom-baked by Mykala.

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Here she is, on the morning of her second birthday. She knew it was her “happy day!” but didn’t quite know what that entailed.

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Wasn’t interested in opening the present, just wanted to crawl on top of it.

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Honestly Sweet Potato Avocado Banana Cake from Nadia Cakes.

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This is Marge the monkey, from Katy.

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Esmé’s personal cake. Made with love by her mama.

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Essie loves rocks. Even on her birthday. She’s showing these to Mykala right now.

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Hi Essie,

It has been so long since I have written to you! I must record a few things here that I fear we will forget:

(1) You have some things right now that make you unreasonably excited. When you are this excited, you’ll sit on the ground, stare at the object of your affection, stick your arms and legs straight out, tiny hands balled into fists, and go “AAAAAAAAH.” You’ll do this until you get to hold the thing, or until it is taken out of your sight. These things include:

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