Birthday the Second

Anda's birthday was yesterday, but since my parents were out here for graduation last week, we decided to have a party last Saturday. It turned out that their trip crossed paths for one day with Dan's parents being in town also, so we ended up having two of Anda's aunts, all four of her grandparents, and her great grandmother on my side. It was fun. (Even though she decided overnight to take the terrible twos literally and unveil her new personality just in time for all the family to meet. Hooray!)

As soon as the guest of honor came downstairs, she ran straight to Grandpa Carter. Grandmas always seem to play second fiddle to grandpas, for some reason.

I turned our kitchen into the pink party zone.

Then we got to the presents. Her extended family sure took care of her! She got all kinds of fun toys and cute outfits.

We gave her the Mom and Dad presents on Saturday, along with one more from Grandma and Grandpa Carter. Great Grandma Carter got to be here that time. We got her a wagon and a tricycle. So far we all love the wagon, but only she seems to love the tricycle (Mom and Dad have to do all the work on both, but the tricycle requires that work to be done in a very awkward position).

Then my favorite part of a birthday party: the cake!

And yet her favorite part of all the festivities was the simplest of all.

Nobody loves balloons more than Anda.

Happy birthday, Chicken!