Birthday Party for L

Today we celebrated L's 2nd birthday and we had a blast.  We kept the party kind of small because L gets overwhelmed in a crowd, it was mainly just family and a couple of friends with young kids.  Our morning started out with cake decorating.  L was so excited to decorate his cake that he could hardly contain himself.  He carefully placed all of the sprinkles and had this green glitter gel that he squirted on it.  He had also picked out this edible black spray paint but it was really hard for him to figure out so he only used a little bit of it.

I'm pretty sure that his favorite part was the green glitter gel.  He seemed to really like watching it squirt out onto the cake and ooze out.  :) I have to admit, it looked pretty cool and it looked great on the cake!  It definitely added character.

I think the finished product turned out way amazing and L was so proud of himself!  He kept wanting to look at his cake throughout the day and you could just see how proud he was on his face.  I love that boy.

We gave L one of his birthday presents early and he loved it.  It was face painting crayons and he was really excited to decorate his face before the party.  He also gave J a few marks for the party.  It was great.  He seemed like he really enjoyed his party.  We had it at the library and he picked out a CD to play there.  We had balloons, markers and paper, homemade silly putty, and squishy gel bags.  Everyone seemed to have a great time.  L was so incredibly excited to see his cousins.  He has been talking about his cousin R for a long time, since we've moved we don't get to see him as much anymore and I can tell that L misses him.  He ran up to R and hugged and kissed him for several minutes, it was so precious!  They are best buddies.

L agreed to wear his party hat from last year and it thrilled me haha.  I honestly didn't think he would want to but he said he did so I was happy.  When everyone started singing Happy Birthday to him though I think he got a tad bit startled and luckily I'm married to a wonderful man who makes a wonderful dad.  He walked up to him and comforted him through it a little bit and stayed with him until L was more focused on the candle and cake.  :)

L attempted to blow out his candle but he wasn't quite close enough and didn't blow quite hard enough.  He seemed to really like it when I did it though and wanted me to do it again....so of course I did.

Overall it was an excellent party and L had a wonderful time.