These first two pictures from from Rebecca's actual birthday on the 11th. She ended up getting a fat lip that day by flipping forward off Justin's legs before he could catch her... so she got her first freezie that day. :)
Rebecca's frog-themed cupcakes and birthday cake! We discovered we think she may not tolerate red colouring very well, as she kept everything except the red icing she had down. Hmm... odd that she's fine with red candies though! I'll have to see if I can figure out which number of red it is that does it!
Birthday cake! She very much enjoyed it! However... she didn't eat the whole thing, lol. Sorry, I haven't any more pictures of her birthday party... I was kind of IN all the pictures instead of taking them! Hopefully some certain other people who had cameras will give me the pictures BEFORE Christmas of this year (HINT, HINT!!). I meant to take a picture of her in her little dress, and it totally slipped my mind until she wasn't wearing it anymore! I'm going to have to do that despite the fact that it isn't her birthday. She still looks relatively the same, so I don't think it will matter too much...
My parents, sister, and niece were visiting from the day after Rebecca's birthday, until this past Saturday, so we went out to various places while they were here. One of the days we went to the SPCA's petting zoo, where Rebecca had a GREAT time chasing the deer around, trying to pet them, and then we took them to Sandy Bottom, a park in our area. We had a good time, and got to see something that if Justin's eyes hadn't taken note, we would have been entirely oblivious to! (See the two pictures at the bottom of this post to see what that was!)
At the petting farm, they have a number of otters, who were very active and playful.
The said deer that Rebecca kept chasing around! It was a little big for her, I think!
Rebecca
loves chickens. There's a little petting farm near our house, and every time I go there with her she'll stand and stare at them until I drag her away!
Now, this little goat is much more Rebecca's size!
Below is what Justin spotted...
Although Shannon insisted that it was a northern pine snake, I have since done some research on the snakes in our part of Virginia, and discovered that this is called an
Eastern Milk Snake. It is non-venomous, and this one mostly just sat and stared at us as we photographed it... until I shook the branch a little too much, and then it lifted its head a little, as seen in the picture below. :)
Here she's all ready to go! She was very excited to show Daddy "her farm".
Saying hi to the turkey (who hissed and spat at us the whole time!).
Elias rode in the snugli on Daddy's back through the whole visit.
Rebecca is getting into the joys of climbing things now, and will often climb just about anything she can find!
Petting the pony.
And the sheep.
And another sheep!
She was trying to get food for the peacock, but I didn't have any quarters for her. 
