February Birthdays

Paige and I had birthdays!

My birthday was fantastic. Jake did a really good job taking care of me. He took me out for a morning of lunch and shopping while Paige hung out with friends (thanks, Michelle!). While we were out my wonderful friends went into my apartment and decorated it. I came home to find my living room filled with amazing decorations, complete with my favorite cake in the fridge. Unfortunately, I forgot to take a picture. =(

There were a ton of balloons scattered all over the floor that TERRIFIED Paige. The first day she refused to walk into the room with all the balloons. She asked to be carried across the floor. The next day, she would approach the edge of the room, peek in and make sure she could see where the balloons were before she ran through quickly. She was so relieved when I cleaned up the balloons that she kept saying "mommy clean up balloons!"

Paige loved her birthday the next day. She kept walking around (for several days actually) singing "Happy birthday to you. Happy birthday to you. Happy birthday to Paige. Happy birthday to you." She loved opening her presents:

And she loved blowing out her birthday candles. Ever since she saw me blow out my candles and kept asking for the "fire again!" On her birthday we put candles on my half-eaten cake for her to blow out (since I had made her a cake for her party the next day).

Here are the cakes I made for our party:

The ladybug is Paige's cake and she LOVED it. She talked about the "ladybug on cake" for days. Unfortunately, the next day Paige spiked a random fever so we had to cancel the party. Needless to say, I ate a lot of cake over the next few days.

Thanks to everyone for making it such a great birthday!