2nd Birthday

It began with singing "Happy Birthday" to a sweet kid in her big-girl bed. She loved it, smiled hugely the whole time. And begged "again" at least 3 more times before getting up and running around her room during the last rendition.

After some breakfast at home we headed out for drinks and pastries at Starbucks where Daisy got her first "coffee" (aka Kid's vanilla steamer). She was so thrilled with her own special drink.

 

We then took our treats down to Gig Harbor for the Maritime Festival and parade. Despite arriving about 10 minutes before the parade reached us, we had a pretty decent spot for viewing.

 

Even with the grey skies, the rain misting on our heads, and the fact that Daisy spilled about half of her coffee, we weren't letting anything ruin our parade moods.

 

 

Daisy has been obsessed with chapsticks lately so was pretty thrilled when one group threw out 5 new chapsticks in our direction.

 

And Ronald McDonald came by.

 

 

One little girl was just about as happy with a lollipop as she was with the chapstick!

 

 

One of our favorite entries was the "Pierce County Library Cart Drill Team" and they were hilarious. We even got to see our favorite children's librarian: Miss Holly!

 

After the parade Darin waited in the longest line ever for lunch while Daisy and I waited in the longest line ever for the bounce house. Luckily, there were fun kids in line to play with, and she did enjoy her 3 minutes of crazyness (I was a little worried she'd stress out).

 

 

The festival had a great children's area full of free activities. So we crafted a pirate eye patch together (since the theme was pirates) and practiced saying "argh".

 

 

And Darin got to help her color a tile.

 

 

We then met the tooth fairy, checked out a magic act, and touched some sea life in touch tanks before sensing naptime was long overdue. We kept Daisy awake in the car by playing the voice mail "Happy Birthday" from her cousins about 15 times.

During naptime I sorted the parade loot. We had brought a small bag expecting to collect a bit of candy, but apparently in Gig Harbor candy just isn't gonna cut it. We got t-shirts, hats, balls, pirate treasure, chapstick, a frisbee, a pinwheel, and more...

 

After nap we played outside for a while, eagerly anticipating the arrival of Papa Ty & Mama Stace. When they did arrive it was time for pizza! and presents! and tuptates! (cupcakes).

 

 

 

 

We had a wonderful day celebrating our little girl.

Comments

[Debbie]

Thanks so much for the video posts! I love the one where she's listening to the cousins sing Happy Birthday. Pure joy. I think she figured out the day was a special day for her. You guys did a great job of putting together a fun and awesome day for Daisy. Can't wait to see you all again!!!

[sasha]

what a great day! We have our kids trained on Starbucks nice and early too...

[jen]

I just bought that bib at IKEA this weekend!