Megan's 2nd Birthday Party

This weekend we celebrated Megan's 2nd birthday with our families.  This girl is sure lucky to have such a warm birthday week (high 70's) and she's had quite the adventures too (trip to MOA, MN Zoo, Parties)!

I knew I wanted to have a Minne Mouse / Bowtique themed party for her since that is still one of her favorite Disney characters and I wasn't sure how long she'd be into it.  Below is the "cake" I made.  I made marble cupcakes with buttercream frosting.  On top of that we put an oreo and two small oreos for mouse ears.  We used pull 'n peel twizzlers to form a bow for each cupcake and then I wrote "Happy Birthday Megan" on the oreos.  I think it turned out great and even made Megan her own Minnie cake so she had something larger for her candle.

For our meal we had hot dog wraps (think of the Hot Dog song from Mickey Mouse Clubhouse) that I put together the weekend before and just took out to thaw and raise around noon.  We had pink punch, veggies, chips, rainbow fruit skewers and a bowtie pasta salad.  Since the party was on a Sunday afternoon we ate around 4:00 then opened presents and had cupcakes and ice cream.  It was still light enough and pretty warm outside when we were done that we could all go to the park and play!

Here are Alexa and Megan in their Minnie Mouse ears!  We also blew up a whole bunch of balloons so the girls enjoyed chasing them and trying to keep them in the air!

Auntie Rachel drew Minnie and other characters on some of the balloons for Megan.  I had never heard Megan say "mine" before as she started to hoard all of the character balloons.  Alexa didn't seem to care since none of them were of Elmo!

Megan wanted us to open and play with every toy that she opened.  Here she is clinging to a Minnie figure that she received!

Megan even got her own first tricycle for her birthday from my parents.  Once she figures out the pedaling motion I know she'll get lots of use out of this throughout the summer!

Blowing out her candle!  She wanted to keep doing it over and over.  A couple times she got the blowing technique down but other times she just kept blowing through her teeth!

Some fun outside and the girls could even go down the slide together!  Uncle Mike supervises at the top.  We had to laugh because Alexa went so fast down the slide that she always ended up in the woodchips at the bottom.  Megan must have been more used to this slide.

Happy Birthday, Megan!  Our precious 2 year old daughter.  We love you!