Party

K had so much fun at her party that she learned the word “birthday” just so she could request “more birthday!” 10 times a day since, which is just about the sweetest thing. I did not pull things off nearly so well as last year – her present (the kitchen) isn’t all the way done, the cake was not as cute as planned (but it redeemed itself by being delicious), and even with wonderful help from my parents and G, I was still making frosting with a messy kitchen when people started showing up.

But, this girl had an amazing time, our house was full of friends and family all afternoon, and there was plenty of food, beer, wine and visiting so all in all it was a success.

K LOVED her balloons and kitchen so much. She carried the ballons all over the house and yard (as did her friends) and when she saw the kitchen she was so excited and ran right for it. She loves her other presents too, play food from her grandparents, art supplies, books, bubbles, a Duplo bird and a blue floral monkey her Nana made her. She isn’t crazy about the lion cub I got her (I knew it was a risk as while she loves real animals she only sort of likes stuffed toys, but it was $7 and is a little lion, she’s a Leo, so I gave it a try).

I think her favorite part though was being sung to and blowing out the candles – at the end after she blew them out she clapped, beamed at everyone and requested more. We distracted her with cake, but later after everyone left she requested “more” and pantomimed blowing out candles, so we sang to her again with another candle and let her blow it out three more times before we called it a day for bedtime.

More on the still-in-progress kitchen remodel later. For now, we are still exhausted from celebrating. Happy birthday, K.