Maddy Turns 2

On Saturday, March 20th, we went to Madeline's birthday party which was held at Matt and Kristen's house (only a mile from our house). Friday was a gorgeous day but turned bitter cold on Saturday. In fact, we got to their house at 4:00pm and saw a few little snow flakes on my windshield wiper. What was supposed to be a backyard party turned into an indoor party. Beck and Madeline started off by cooking up a fake meal...

Kristen planned an activity for the kids...making an octopus out of crayons, glue sticks, already cut out heads, legs and squiggly eyes. All of the kids thoroughly enjoyed doing this and luckily Brent helped Beck make his (daddy is the artsy creative person) because Beck's turned out really cute!
Then, we all ate hamburgers/hot dogs, there was a fruit tray, veggie pizza, cupcakes and ice cream for dessert. The cupcakes were adorned with fish since that was the theme of the party. Madeline did a great job eating her cupcake!
Beck had little to do with watching the gifts being opened...he would much rather push around the grocery cart or play with the helium balloons.
Madeline's most prized gift was the baby doll and pink stroller. I actually heard Madeline scream for the first time when a little girl tried to "steal" her stroller. Like Beck, she wanted to push "her" stroller all around the house. Beck also got a little miffed when this same girl tried to steal his grocery cart. It's so funny to see little 2-year olds get upset.
In the goodie bag that was given to all of the kids was a blow up crab and fish stickers. Beck put the fish stickers on his table and we blew up the crab for bath time. I asked Beck to give the "fish" a kiss and he did! It was heart warming to see him being so sweet to the plastic crab.

Happy Birthday Madeline!!!