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Click on the photo above to see shots from the weekend. I warn you it’s a ridiculous amount, but they are cute!

We had Nadia’s birthday party last Saturday and it was great fun! The theme was music, specifically “Jack’s Big Music Show”. Here’s the cake and FYI - it took 11 cups of cake batter and 10 cups of icing to create. Oh my!!

Papa, Grandma Brooke and Tahni drove up for the event. Brooke took charge of the food situation for which I am grateful because I had to work on the cake. Plus lots of local family came and several of Nadia’s playgroup buddies. We played an episode of Jack’s for them - Nadia’s favorite, “Phil the Coo Coo Bird”. The little ones danced around and had a great time. Then we opened presents. Nadia got a lot of really cool music themed items and cute clothes.

After that we had cake. She seemed confused by all the singing and blowing out the candles, but she liked the cake!

I made Jack’s Big Music show shirts for the kids as party favors along with some noisy items like horns and maraca’s (sorry parents - had to keep with my theme). Here is Nadia modeling the shirt.

It really was a wonderful time and our shy in big groups girl did great because the kids had their own little area to play in and I think she didn’t get so overwhelmed by the people. We loved that she jumped all around to the music and got so excited about the instruments she was given and she just wanted to play with them right away.

Click on the photo above to see all the photos from the evening.

We took Nadia to ‘Boo at the Zoo’ tonight and we had a great time. And I guarantee you have never seen a cuter monkey than this one! We watched the “Drummin’ Monkey’s Show” and Nadia was completely mesmerized. She had a french fry in her hand the entire time and had her analytical face on. Afterwards we took her up to see the monkeys and let her hit the bongo drum.

She took in a haul of candy at the various treat stations and played games in the toddler area. After a while she seemed confused about the games and all the people, so we got out of the toddler area and continued to walk around the zoo. Her favorite thing of the night was a straw that she won at the Cat in the Hat game. She carried it around the rest of the night

Here she is meeting a fellow monkey. Notice the straw.

Here are a couple of the professionally carved pumpkins they had out. Very cool!

She also liked the fun house mirrors.

I think that this was a great way to spend her birthday and I think she had a good time. We know that next year it’s going to be even better because she will have a better idea of what is going on. But she quickly picked up on the tickets because every time she handed over a ticket she got a handful of candy. Ha ha!

Nadia is 2 years old today and getting cuter and funnier by the day. She grew almost half an inch since last month and gained another half a pound.
Here she was last year:

And this year:

We love you Nadia! You are the delight of our lives! - Mama and Dada

Papa Greg took this video of the birthday song. Thanks Dad!

First off - Nadia’s birthday party was a great success and I will get photos up this week. She did very well considering there was a house full of people and I was really happy that she got into all the fun.

After the party Mike was watching TV while the rest of us were doing this:

So of course I had to ask him to take a photo because it made me laugh and I thought it was such a sign of the times we live in.