December 17, 2016
A little over a month ago (I think?), I had a brilliant idea. I suggested to Julie, who mentions dinosaurs in regular conversation each day, if she'd like to have a dinosaur birthday. Well, since that, she's mentioned dinosaur birthday just about every day since. Though I know she really didn't know what that meant, I figured she'd still enjoy it. I collected a few random dinosaur items, made dinosaur cupcakes and dinosaur cookies, and invited over a few people. We had to keep it smaller this year as we waited too long to do what Mike wanted (something more activity based and out of the house) and I am way too tired to have 30 people at our place, so we just invited Julie's 2 year old friends and the grandparents.
Julie actually slept past the start of the party so I woke her up, put on her dinosaur shirt and sent her out into the world. She had fun with Ellie, Livvy and Allie, got too many presents as usual and munched some snacks and cookies. She even managed to blow out her candle by herself. Impressive! All in all, it was a pretty awesome dinosaur birthday. She still says "dinosaur birthday?" to me like it's still going to happen, but I think she was satisfied. Now she just has to ACTUALLY turn 2... just one more week. Whoa, where does the time go?
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| ^The pineapples are a nice touch (good work, Mike ;) |
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| ^Guests! |
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| ^Pete is always hoping to get a moment alone with the flowers. |
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| ^Daddy and Auntie help open presents. |
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| ^Oh friends. |
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| ^The Doc McStuffins set was definitely a hit! |
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| ^NOM! |
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| ^Grandparents! |
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| ^And when the party was done... Christmas presents with Livvy ;) |
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