Josie's 2nd Birthday

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Josie turned two on December 10th.  We celebrated with a Sesame Street, Milk and Cookies party with our family and friends at our house on Saturday the 15th.  The theme was easy to decide upon because Josie loves anything Elmo and thing Cookie Monster.  Each week we go to the library and get three books and three DVDs from the kids section and Josie always grabs the first Elmo or Cookie Monster anything that she sees. When we have cookies, she says, “Coookieee” in a beyond adorable monster voice mimicking the cookie Monster. 
On her birthday we celebrated by having cake after dinner.
 
Josie at two:    Although her legal name is Josephine, we mostly call her Josie or Jojo.  She answers to all three names and knows when we say "Josephine"- she's in trouble!!! Josie loves to sing and dance.  She is our sassy little love bug, wakes up in the morning giving kisses. She is a good eater and always finishes all her broccoli but honestly, this girl LOVES her carbs!!! Crackers, bagels, chips, cookies, pasta, if it is a carbohydrates, Josie loves it. Activity wise she enjoys legos, coloring and playdoh, dinosaurs, cars and all your basic girl activities like pushing her babies around & tucking them in to bed. Josie also likes to eat the glue sticks at craft time, lol.  She loves going on walks and playing outside wither in the back yard or at the park. Josie is also our night owl!!! She can stay up til 10 pm and be cheerfully awake at 5 in the morning. It is so fun to watch her grow and continue to create a bond with her big brother. We are excited to see what new personality traits she gains in the coming year.   
The party details:
  I kept decorations simple, busting out our rainbow banner we purchased last year for Issac’s Lightning McQueen party.  Besides the Banner, I purchased two Sesame Street disposable table covers and the matching Happy Birthday Banner.  Once again I baked the cakes & my cousin Erin did the decorating.  She is so talented with the frosting; we made two cakes but in retrospect only needed one.  After everyone filled up on pizza, veggies and fruit salad they topped off at the cookie bar.  Tyler & I worked together on the cookies, he made all the batters & I did all the baking.  In addition to homemade cookies, we also served a variety of store bought cookies.  
 

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 For beverages we offered a variety of soda pop and a variety of Nesquick 
I took old flash cards & made signs using scrapbook paper & glue sticks to put on the ice chests.
 
I had planned two games in case the children needed to be entertained but honestly they all played well together in the playroom. The games I made were "the grouche's garbage toss & the other game was this simple matching game.  I also made this sign that said "This Party is brought to you by the letter "J" and the number "2".  To stick with that theme we made J & 2 sugar cookies for the cookie bar. 


 
 Josie's party was a complete success. Every guest left with a full belly and happy smile. We were a little cramped with so many guests in our house but it worked out great. Thank you to everyone who took the time to celebrate with us. We LOVE YOU!!!  Bellow are more pictures form Josie's Birthday, enjoy!









 
THE END!
XOXO

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