One day at a time...: Rylee is Two!!!

Thursday, May 31, 2012

Rylee is Two!!!

Get ready for another where does the time go post.

But really? How did this:

Turn into this:

Someone explain that to me.

Before I start with her party let's back up to about a week before when I FINALLY took her to get her first haircut. Morgan and Tenley were born with as much hair as Rylee has at 2 years old. In true Rylee fashion she hated every second of her haircut as evidenced below.

HATES.

Ok back to the party/birthday girl. I need to take a minute and take in all of who Rylee is at two years old so I don't forget. She is sassy, ornery, and cute as a button. She is so very clever and understands much more than she should at her age. I love that she puts sentences together and because she's still two it isn't very clear to a normal person but because I'm her Mommy I understand what she's saying perfectly. She is a typical little sister in that she thoroughly enjoys agitating Morgan in any way possible. At the same time, she really, really wants to do everything Morgan does and mimics her constantly. She is the best big sister and always very concerned with how Tenley is doing. If you looked up middle child in the dictionary there would be a picture of Miss Rylee Lou next to it. I often refer to her as RG3 because her personality (and looks!) remind me so much of my father. Those of you that know him, know that I am in serious trouble.

Loves:

Her Sisters

Mommy and Daddy

Blueberries

Playing Outside

Mimicking anyone and everything

Condiments - any kind and by themselves.

Hates:

Animals

Haircuts

Not getting her way

Getting her diaper changed

Her birthday happened to fall on Sunday of Memorial Day weekend so that is when we decided to hold her party. The night before we were watching Mackenzie and the girls decided to watch a movie and eat some popcorn in their sleeping bags. They all ended up falling asleep.

I seriously hate to admit this but I was so busy I bought her decorations (well some of them) off Etsy this year. I sooo wish I had the time to do my own but I just didn't want to have to worry about it. I pride myself on usually being able to do it all and even though I probably could have fit this in my schedule, it wouldn't have been pretty for anyone else that lives with me.

Confession over.

Since we tend to call her our little monkey, we decided to go ahead with the Sock Monkey theme. The stuff I did get was really cute which made me feel better about my choice to buy.

The favor bags:

The fabulous cupcakes made by my friend Becky (yes the same one that just ran a marathon a week ago and has three kids of her own) who owns Sweets and Stems. I cannot recommend her enough! She always comes up with exactly what I'm thinking of.

Birthday Banner:

It was super hot out on Sunday but actually with the breeze it wasn't that bad. It could have been much worse though because the two days before the party we were without air conditioning. Thanks to one of my sister's neighbors we were able to get it fixed on Saturday morning. I think the kids all had a good time playing in the kiddie pool and our bounce house.

Unsure about everyone singing to her.

Oh but hey there are cupcakes I can make a huge mess of myself with!

She was totally not interested in opening presents with everything else going on. Then I made the mistake of letting her open her little BBQ Grill that my mom got her in the beginning and it just went downhill from there.

She did perk up however when the next two gifts came out.

She was super hilarious in this thing and refused to steer.

She would just push the pedal and lean back and let it go.

Kids being kids.

Some of our wonderful guests/helpers/people who take orders from a crazy mom before her kids birthday parties. Thank you, Thank you, Thank you.

Part of the Cul-de-Sac Crew.

Later after everyone left we opened some of her bigger toys and put them together so we could play with them. I wanted to make sure I got the obligatory birthday pics in.