el squared

where has the time gone?!? lucy turned 2 yesterday. i still can't believe my ity-bity, bald baby is so big.

we had a party for her yesterday at our church building. it was grant's idea and i think it was brilliant: room to run, air conditioning, no downstairs neighbors to annoy, etc. since we had so much room, we decided to invite the whole nursery (!). 22 kids showed up and it was amazingly fun. everything seemed to work smoothly (mostly due to grant's help. seriously, he's the best). i spent the week baking and i put all of the recipes up on my other blog. here's the spread:

for games played "pin the spot on the leopard":

hazel was proud of her placement:

when it was lucy's turn to go, she was sneaky with her cheating at first:

but she quickly gave up on subtlety (grant has some serious art skills, no?):

then it was time for game #2: leap across the lily-pads:

it was a hit and everyone made it across safely:

next we made lion masks:

hazel colored hers purple. surprise, surprise. a little elastic later and we have:

roarrrrr!

finally! it was time for what lucy had been nagging me about for days: cake!

i hope she didn't wish for more hair:

because it took her about 6 tries to blow both candles out.

throughout the party, lucy taunted us with memories of this day:

i got cold chills when i went to check on the weather:

that's where it happened. i still have nightmares.

happily there were no incidents of that kind, just a few bumps from kids running into each other (we probably should have taken into account masks obscuring vision). lucy threw a birthday-sized fit while we (by 'we' i mean grant) cleaned up:

so i took her to watch the rain:

then it was time for home and a much needed nap for everyone. once we were all awake, it was time for pressies:

and her favorite dinner:

tomato soup. can we say, "best day of her life"?

i think so.

love you, monkey.

p.s. that huge scab on her arm is compliments of our over-textured wall.