Oi Ve! I just realized after my last post, that I haven't blogged at all in 2014. I'm such a slacker!
Sarah's 2nd birthday, what a struggle this little party was! Back in February when Sarah was turning 2, we had the month of sickness in our house. We literally postponed her party 3 times because Sarah was sick and we wanted her to be able to enjoy herself, and we didn't want to get any other kids sick. It was so frustrating. In the end, it ended up being just a tiny little family party because it just didn't work out any other way.
The theme for her 2nd Birthday was Oh-Two-dles or Mickey Mouse Clubhouse. I had so many idea's for her birthday party, and I went way overboard with all the craft projects. I made a toodles, complete with mousketools that was supposed to be a game during the party. My idea was that we would be calling for toodles throughout the party to bring us the things we needed to continue the party. I bought a Mickey Mouse Clubhouse CD and planned on using different songs from it throughout. But with Sarah being the only kid there, we didn't do this activity. Whomp whomp.
My other activity for the party was a bubble dance party. (Toodles was going to bring us the bubbles). Our dance song was Party at Mickey's House from the CD. We did do this at Sarah's little party. I still feel so bad that her party didn't happen the way it was supposed to. It was just really bad luck. Sarah battled the stomach flu, croup, and a nasty cold, back to back. Poor baby had it rough that month! You can see the effects of all the sickness in her poor little face. But anyways, after dancing in the bubbles it was time for presents. She loved opening her presents herself this year, and it was fun to watch her do it. Then we had her special ice cream cake. It took me forever to find a local place that did ice cream cakes and had Mickey Mouse themed decorations. But I worked it out, and luckily she wanted an ice cream cake, because it sat in our deep freeze for a month before we were able to eat any of it ~ haha!
So let's go through her decorations really quickly. I ordered some custom centerpieces for her party from a shop on etsy. They came disassembled and I had to put them together. They sent us multicolored tissue paper, but after doing one, I decided to just use the red and yellow. We got these huge Mickey and Minnie balloon's that were bigger than Sarah, so she had a lot of fun playing with them for a few weeks. They each received tons of hugs and were dragged around the house. Let's see, what else? I used a lot of Sarah's toys for decorations, she already had the Mickey Mouse figures around the Minnie centerpiece, as well as the Mickey and Minnie on the mantel. We had a hot-diggity-dog bar with mini corndogs, bagel dogs, and pigs in a blankets to satisfy the food requirement.
Growing up in my family, whenever anyone has a birthday or has achieved something, they get to use the "red plate". I have very fond memories of feeling really special when it was my turn. We always sat down to dinner together and it was very obvious when the red plate was set out. It just a little thing that goes so far in making you or anyone feel special. So I wanted to start the same tradition in our family. Sarah was the first one to get to use the red plate in our family. My hope is that it will mean something to my kids as it did to me.
The little hat was another purchase off of etsy. What did we do before etsy and Pinterest? She wasn't super fond of it (because of the elastic strap). But it was really cute!
So yeah, that's Sarah's birthday in a nutshell. Like I said (over and over) it didn't turn out the way I dreamed it up in my head, but I know she had a fantastic time, and she felt special, and that's all that really matters. I can't believe my little girl is growing up so fast. I mean she's nearly 2 1/2 at the time of this post. Where does the time fly? I'm so proud of my sweet little girl. I couldn't ask for a better kid and wouldn't trade her for the world!
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