This weekend we celebrated Ladybug's 2nd birthday with a party in the park. We kept it pretty small and simple as mommy is a little low on energy these days and we wondered if we would need to cancel for baby's arrival. But since baby seems content to stay where she's at, we got to enjoy Ladybug's birthday party after all.
We met grandparents and a few close cousins and friends at the park. Ladybug got to wear her cute Minnie dress and ears (but wouldn't leave the ears on for very long, they were much more fun to play with than just wear on her head). We ordered a 6 foot party sub sandwich (we had way too much food) but most of the kids were too excited to eat. Ladybug had been sitting by her sister and friend but once they abandoned their plates to go play in the park, Ladybug scampered around grazing from all three plates, eating their chips and stealing the turkey from their sandwiches. She especially loved the cluster of balloons Grammy brought for her and giggled as she bounced her hands against them and insisted that daddy kiss them. She rolled around in the grass with her uncle booga and filled glass after glass with grandpa's delicious homemade root beer. As the clouds started to roll in, we sat her on the table and let her dive into her presents. She was thrilled and so excited with all the great loot she got but as the last one was opened, it began to rain so we hurriedly shuttled everything back into the cars and moved the party to our house.
Once there, we sat the birthday girl in front of her cake and she grinned as we sang and she blew out the candles. I decorated the cake very simply by smoothing on the frosting and using sprinkles and toy figurines to embellish it. She thought this was great and loved pulling the toys out the frosting, licking them clean and shoving them back in to start over. Eventually we took the toys away to be cleaned but before we could move the cake for cutting, she wrapped her arms around the sides and face planted herself in for a huge bite. Once the cake and ice cream had been served and devoured, we scrapped plans to go swimming and the kids headed downstairs to play with toys and watch a movie.
Today we celebrated some more. We picked daddy and grandma up from work and took them to lunch with us. I told her we could do something special for lunch today and she told me where she wanted to go and asked, "daddy too?" (how can he resist that?) So we took the girls to lunch and they munched on their burgers and played with the toys. This evening we will spend on her "big" present--her new big girl room. Ladybug is moving out of the nursery and the toddler bed into a new bedroom, with new furniture and especially decorated just for her in (what else?) ladybugs.
Happy Birthday to my beautiful girl!
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