We've been prepping Sophie for her birthday for the past few weeks. We've been reading her stories about birthdays, singing the birthday song, and talking about eating birthday cake and ice cream. We should have prepared her for the candle-lighting and for the expectation that would be on her to blow out the candles. The moment that Matt began lighting her candles, she started crying, "No! Fire, burn me!" As we sang, "Happy Birthday," she could not decide whether to laugh or cry, and when we told her to blow out the candles, she decided to overcome her fear of fire by touching the flame. This, of course, resulted in a confirmation of her fears and very loud screaming. Luckily, the party guests were oblivious to this drama, and when I glanced over at them, they were already happily eating their cupcakes. Gotta love two-year-olds.
Despite this incident, Sophie's birthday party was a success. She loves baby-dolls right now, so we invited three friends over for a baby party. We sang to the babies, read stories, took the babies for a walk in their strollers, danced with the babies, fed the babies, and put the babies to sleep. Jojo (Sophie's grandma) made baby-face cupcakes with binkies sticking out of their mouths. Sophie was probably the most thrilled with these adorable cupcakes, and she took her time relishing it.
For Halloween, Emmy was a witch and Sophie was a black cat. Or, in her words, a "kitty . . . meow." They were pretty cute, and on cloud nine since I let them eat as much candy as they wanted all night.
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