Happy 2 Jane!

This one's for you, Mom. You said you wanted lots of pictures!


Heavens I wish I'd had a camera when Eric and I walked into Jane's room that morning to wish her a Happy Birthday. She was sitting up and the second we started singing, she started shouting "No! No! No! No! No! No! No! No! No!" A perfect toddler start to the day!

I had printed out a big schnazzy #2 and put it on her place mat, we had all her presents wrapped and sitting on the kitchen table and she got to eat her favorite cereal-Marshmallow Mateys (I wish I'd never let her try it, it's all she wants these days!) Then we let her open a couple of presents before her party at the beach and park near our apartment. She opened up some sand toys and a Wiggles movie.

We had a party at the park/beach

with some friends

and some of my family that had come into town for a man-cation up north. It was a wonderful coincidence.



We planned well and prepared well so it was pretty low stress. I had a couple of girls from my primary class present and past to help with Jane and the baby. They where fantastic!!

We swam


We played "Silly Simon Says"


ate snacks

played in the sand


enjoyed the nice weather

blew out a candle (OK, so Jane totally freaked out about the candle. She knows fire is hot and had no desire to get too close...the light breeze blew it out)

and enjoyed some cupcakes and frosting (an improvement over last year's fear of frosting and a nearly untouched birthday cake)

We decided to open presents at home to avoid anymore untoward displays of emotion (did I mention Jane was up at 5:30???) and the rest of the day was spent playing with all her loot:

It was a long, beautiful, exhausting day. I was emotional (more on that later). Eric was tired.