We decided to keep Little Miss Northern Light’s second birthday fairly low-key. I know that a lot of parents make other choices, and that’s totally fine. Considering that all three of our children’s birthdays are jammed together over a little less than two months that also happen to include Mother’s Day, Father’s Day, Fourth of July, and several other local events, it’s better for everyone to keep it mellow.
Those polyclay decorations are old; Mom bought them for me when I was little enough to really dig them. I’m glad I’m getting to pass them along to my kids.
Blowing out the candles… You’ll notice in this shot there were actually two cakes. She couldn’t decide what she wanted (especially considering the enthusiastic voting of her brothers), so there was a vanilla cake with lemon icing, and a carrot cake. The vanilla cake was a mix (Pamela’s), but the carrot cake was from scratch, and of course all gluten-free.
The girl and (some of) her gifts. A new sun hat and SPF 50 shirt from SunDay Afternoons, a set of hand-knit goldilocks and the three bears finger puppets from a SAHM that Grandma knows, a copy of the book to read the story from.
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So sweet. love, V