adventures of the miebs family: birthday celebrations for red

birthday cards and packages started filling our post office box a week before her special day. usually, the envelopes get opened as they come, but this year, i decided to stockpile. we ended up having a combination of birthday and Easter cards, complete with oodles of stickers, singing cards and hologram images, and oh, yeah - CANDY.

i consumed most of the candy (like i would have it any other way) but i let the kids have their stickers and furry new loveys. dylan is completely tickled by pooh and piglet and anything else from the 100 acre woods. so, gramma d totally spoiled her with two poohs: a large pooh, perfect for hugging and a teeny baby pooh, perfect for travel (as gramma d noted). the problem is, we have a polar bear, a baby, piglet, a small monkey, glo worm & baby violet, two blankies, and now 2 poohs to add to the insanity of dylan's bedtime necessities. amazingly, she will notice if one lovey is missing or if that one blankie happens to be in the washer.

with her birthday falling mid-week and easter just days after, we had to postpone her {friend} birthday party for a few weeks. it makes me smile to have so many great friends with their own kiddos just months apart from ours.

we celebrated dylan's 2nd birthday with an ice cream cone/sundae themed party. where i would normally have a craft for the kiddos to construct, the do-it-yourself sundae was more than enough mind-stimulation for the youngsters. there were ice cream sprinkles (that keep their crunch!); crushed oreos, m&m's, reese's pieces and animal crackers; cut up bananas; maraschino cherries (with stems!); whipped cream; caramel & chocolate sauce; hot fudge; marshmallow fluff; two different kinds of cones, 3 flavors of tillamook ice cream...

ohmygoodnessgracious!

and did i mention we had 3 kinds of pizzas? if you failed to have fun at this party, it may have been because you were too busy enjoying all the treats! but i don't think that happened. seemed like everyone left happy, with treat bags and full tummies. just a wonderful celebration for a wonderful little lady.

please pay no attention to the light bulb-shaped brownies

(... they should have been chubby ice cream cones!)

i love this next series. you know, we're forever telling jb to help his sister. do this, do that. it's no wonder we have our little battles. i'm sure it's quite annoying to be corrected all day long - i grow tired of doing it, for sure! well, here - he can't help but help her out! who doesn't like to blow out candles?! thankfully, dylan was too busy cheering for the birthday song to really notice that someone else had beat her to a wish. she made her wish second, and after all, that was the birthday we were celebrating.