1 Feb 2009

Rosie's Birthday

Rosie Posie will turn 2 on Tuesday. We really can't believe that she is two already. In a couple more days she will have been a member of this nutty family for a whole year. Alas, I digress. Chinese custom states that if you cannot celebrate a birthday on the actual day then it must be celebrated before the actual day and NEVER after.

Who are we to mess with tradition? Today we had a little BBQ for the munchkin and invited a few very close friends and we celebrated her day. During her nap Jacob, Lily and I transformed the house into an Elmo land. She had Elmo everywhere including balloons. Her little face lit up when she saw the balloons and then Lily showed everything else and she really went berserk, it was so much fun. Once the guests started to arrive she became alittle bit shy cos she still doesn't do crowds very well but she warmed up and sat and ate her lunch with everyone and enjoyed the fact that Caro and Lucy were fighting over who would feed the next mouthful to her.
I do believe that the Elmo birthday cake was the icing on her day! (God I am corny)At first she just sort of looked at it but once she tasted the icing there was no going back, she was hooked! She enjoyed being sung to and blew out her candles.

She was very confused and every time anybody said, "Happy Birthday Rosie," she would say, "no, Daddy's birthday." Total confusion aside she had a ball. She has shown a big interest in tricycles of late so that is what she got. Her very own pink and purple Radio Fl*yer trike. She was thrilled. Over and over again she kept saying, "rider" which is her word for anything you can ride. Even though we had friends over we had to keep going outside to give her a ride.

I don't have one good photo of her on it but I have a feeling it is going to be a staple part of our day so there will be lots of pic's coming soon. I do however have lots of photos of her and of course video but by now you all know the deal with the new camera and videos....arghhhhhhh.

The birthday girl spots the balloons. BTW, her pretty dress was a gift from Lori, Marc and the Dynamic Duo, when she came home. The hat lasted about a minute :(

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She wasn't being very photogenic...it must be true about being 2 and having a 'tude

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Some of her fans

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More of them

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Rosie's finger heading straight for the cake!

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From the cake to her mouth

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And back to the cake.

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And back to her mouth

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I was trying to slice around the licked bits....it's a good job we were all GOOD friends cos no one seemed to mind and everyone ate the cake.

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Just a little icing on her chin

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Lucy and Caro. Caro took my camera and just kept taking photos. It was really lovely to download them this evening and see loads that I didn't recognise.

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Trying to coax the birthday girl to look at the camera.

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Ebby was tired of ALL the girls so he went outside and got his snorkeling gear on???

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Once she received her trike that is where she held court and wouldn't even get off of it to open her other gifts

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Hidden behind some tissue paper as she sits on the "rider' and opens her gifts.

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Having fun

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My dear friend Jakie and her daughters, and mine too!

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Thank you to all of our friends for making Rosie's day so special. And also for including Lily....she was shocked, me too!

2 comments:

Tammie said...

Happy Birthday Rosie!! It looks as if mummy, daddy & Lily made sure you had a wonderful day!

Vivian M said...

Awww Kerri had an Elmo birthday at two too! Three was Dora, just giving you a heads up.
Looks like the birthday party was a huge success!

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