{"id":279,"date":"2007-12-10T12:05:54","date_gmt":"2007-12-10T22:05:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/?p=279"},"modified":"2008-04-21T16:23:01","modified_gmt":"2008-04-22T02:23:01","slug":"2nd-birthday-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/?p=279","title":{"rendered":"2nd Birthday Party!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Saturday Dec. 8th, the day after Leilani&#8217;s birthday, we had a big party. There were 15 kids, most of them between 2 and 3, and probably 30-35 adults. We knew ahead of time that the weather would not clear up enough to depend on an outdoor location, so we had it at our house, which worked out nicely &#8211; it was possible to go a little longer, and parents didn&#8217;t have to run after their children and were able to relax a little more.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you all so much for the great gifts, Leilani loves them!<\/p>\n<p><a href='http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/images2\/second-year\/24m\/2yo-collage.jpg'><img src='http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/images2\/second-year\/24m\/web\/2yo-collage.jpg'\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It was a lot of fun, all kids were well behaved and happy. I was amazed that our chrismas tree, and all ornaments stayed intact, and all the decorations I had put up with twine and scotch tape stayed up as well.<\/p>\n<p>Leilani was a great hostess, and shared all her toys, even the new ones without any problems. The accidents were small and the tears dried quickly &#8211; Leilani and Elsa bumped into each other, and on the later pictures you can see Leilani&#8217;s bump next to her eye. <\/p>\n<p>We let Leilani unwrap the presents as they came in, for the first 10 or so. I suppose it&#8217;s bad manners, but she doesn&#8217;t understand why they need to be put in one place and she can&#8217;t have them even though they are for her and it&#8217;s her party&#8230; She was so happy with her gifts, and played with them and wanted to wear some of her new clothes right away.<br \/>\n<a href='http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/images2\/second-year\/24m\/2yo-unwrap.jpg'><img src='http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/images2\/second-year\/24m\/web\/2yo-unwrap.jpg'\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>She was fascinated with the little ducks that light up.<br \/>\n<a href='http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/images2\/second-year\/24m\/2yo-new-ducky.jpg'><img src='http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/images2\/second-year\/24m\/web\/2yo-new-ducky.jpg'\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I need to get a waiver for the trampoline and not let kids on if parents don&#8217;t sign&#8230;<br \/>\n<a href='http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/images2\/second-year\/24m\/2yp-trampoline.jpg'><img src='http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/images2\/second-year\/24m\/web\/2yp-trampoline.jpg'\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>With Daya:<br \/>\n<a href='http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/images2\/second-year\/24m\/2yo-bd-daya.jpg'><img src='http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/images2\/second-year\/24m\/web\/2yo-bd-daya.jpg'\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Shoko, Viola and Daya:<br \/>\n<a href='http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/images2\/second-year\/24m\/2yo-bd-lanai.jpg'><img src='http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/images2\/second-year\/24m\/web\/2yo-bd-lanai.jpg'\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href='http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/images2\/second-year\/24m\/2yo-bd-princess-5x7.jpg'><img src='http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/images2\/second-year\/24m\/web\/2yo-bd-princess-5x7.jpg'\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href='http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/images2\/second-year\/24m\/2yo-lanai-guests.jpg'><img src='http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/images2\/second-year\/24m\/web\/2yo-lanai-guests.jpg'\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Eat your beans, then you can have cake.<br \/>\n<a href='http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/images2\/second-year\/24m\/2yo-bd-dinner.jpg'><img src='http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/images2\/second-year\/24m\/web\/2yo-bd-dinner.jpg'\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Leilani did not start on the icing until it was on her plate, but she kept waving the spoon around and made me nervous&#8230;<br \/>\n<a href='http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/images2\/second-year\/24m\/2yo-cake-bd.jpg'><img src='http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/images2\/second-year\/24m\/web\/2yo-cake-bd.jpg'\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"green\">Andy says: We spent the night before making all the fish and turtles out of marzipan, which she made from scratch. Then she spent all morning baking the pound cake&#8211;there was so much of it that she made 3 tiers. The good thing about pound cake is that it supports its own weight.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><a href='http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/images2\/second-year\/24m\/2yo-pink-bd-girl.jpg'><img src='http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/images2\/second-year\/24m\/web\/2yo-pink-bd-girl.jpg'\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Joy gave her an awesome present &#8211; a grocery store, which all of the children played with, even the older ones:<br \/>\n<a href='http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/images2\/second-year\/24m\/2yo-bd-grocery.jpg'><img src='http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/images2\/second-year\/24m\/web\/2yo-bd-grocery.jpg'\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The girls then went into the bedroom and messed up our bed&#8230;<br \/>\n<a href='http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/images2\/second-year\/24m\/2yo-4-little-monkeys.jpg'><img src='http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/images2\/second-year\/24m\/web\/2yo-4-little-monkeys.jpg'\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href='http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/images2\/second-year\/24m\/2yo-mess-up-bed.jpg'><img src='http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/images2\/second-year\/24m\/web\/2yo-mess-up-bed.jpg'\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8230; and then they all went into the playpen.<br \/>\n<a href='http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/images2\/second-year\/24m\/2yo-playpen.jpg'><img src='http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/images2\/second-year\/24m\/web\/2yo-playpen.jpg'\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Leilani was very happy that lots of kids forgot their party favors &#8211; she arranged the turtles into hugging pairs.<br \/>\n<a href='http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/images2\/second-year\/24m\/2yo-turtle-hugs.jpg'><img src='http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/images2\/second-year\/24m\/web\/2yo-turtle-hugs.jpg'\/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saturday Dec. 8th, the day after Leilani&#8217;s birthday, we had a big party. 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