Happy Birthday, Sadie!!!!

Can it be true? Is Sadie 2 already!?! The past two years have gone by in a blur and now Sadie is a little girl. A little girl with a big smile, a loud scream, and an independent streak. If you haven't had the chance to hang out with Sadie lately, you really should. She's such a blast. I guarantee she will make you laugh. Here's to my sweet little Sadie!

We started the day out early, a little too early for my taste, but when the birthday girl wakes up, we all get up; there's too much excitement in the air. She opened presents first thing because that's what little girls want to do after they wake up, come down the stairs and see presents!

The first present she opened was from Dennis and me. We got her a tea set. I was worried that she wasn't going to like the tea set because I really really liked the tea set. (Much like her crown. I really really like her birthday crown. Sadie does not enjoy her crown as much as I do, but she did wear it for a little while, at least.) I made her little sugar cubes complete with sparkly glitter and little felt tea bags that really smell like tea because I figured if I was going to spend hours drinking tea, I wanted to at least have some tea and sugar!The good thing is that she really liked the tea set. She made tea for Monkey and me all day long. She even took a nap with her teapot and some sugar cubes.
Eli got Sadie this horse stable and horses. Mostly, he picked it out because it's what he wanted, but Sadie loves horses too, so we agreed that it would be a good gift. Eli played with it all day. It turns out that Sadie likes tea more than horses. Maybe she can serve her horses some tea?!?
Then we had birthday pancakes. Birthday pancakes are special not only because you get candles and we sing "Happy Birthday" but because the pancakes contain chocolate chips.Then Sadie had a long day of waiting. We took Eli to school, went to music class, got some groceries, went to the toy store, made a few returns, picked up Eli from school, went to lunch at a friend's house, took a nap, decorated the house, got into a pretty dress and then waited and waited and waited some more for 5:30 to roll around so Sadie could have her birthday party.

Poor second child, gets a small, un-themed birthday party with a few friends, not to mention, ahem, a store-bought cake. But, I enjoyed Sadie's party more than I've enjoyed any party I've ever thrown because I got to enjoy Sadie, her friends and their parents and because it was low key, it was also low stress. Yessssssss!!!!!!

I don't think Sadie minded too much:Sadie and her friends: Sofia, Eli, the birthday girl, Dario, and Satya. We ate pizza with lots of olives, had some cake, then ate a whole bunch of those orange puffy snack things that I never buy for them, but that they love so much. Sadie's so much neater at eating now. Remember last year??
And then we opened presents, again...
It's another horse, a horse that comes in it's own bag and and it's own comb, which Sadie was very very excited about. And she got a cute dress with a butterfly necklace.

It was a great day for a two-year old. Happy Birthday, Sadie!