Marion's 2nd Birthday Party

It's been almost a month, yet I still can't believe that my sweet baby is 2. She is her own little person now. She's spunky, really spunky. She's not a "pleaser," she definitely would rather do her own thing; but she is so loving, that she usually gets away with whatever it is.

For her birthday, I wanted her to have a nice party, and to me, that meant a party at our home. Kids these days (and parents too, it seems), expect lots of entertainment at little ones birthday parties. This stresses me out!! I watched the weather the whole week before, it went back and forth from pleasant and cool, to cold and rainy. I put off renting a jumpy until the last minute, when I rented one that would fit inside our garage. Whew, done stressing about the weather. I was having a jumpy INSIDE -kindy funky- but hey, the weather wouldn't matter.

I shopped and planned. I ordered a cute cake, cookie favors, bought and made many decorations, and ordered plenty of food. I decorated my tables, filled and hung a pinata inside, and cleaned like a mad woman! I even made chocolate covered, heavily sprinkled pretzels, and called them fairy wands :)

Here are some pictures from her party...
















Well, Marion had a wonderful time at her party. She had plenty of little friends to celebrate with her, and everything went well. I thought the party was a total success, until Sunday night. Yes, the party was Saturday morning, a house full of happy kids. Sunday night, half of those same sweet kids were puking with an awful stomach virus, including my Marion. It lasted a week for Marion. She had dirty issues in her diaper through the next Saturday. Ugh!!! So much effort and money into her party... and I cried the whole next week about it!!

On the bright side, at least Marion is young enough that she wasn't worried about the aftermath of her party, even if her mama was broken hearted!