The party

We had a small party for Kassady last night. We invited just a few people over to help her celebrate. Fortunately, she hasn't figured out that if you have more people at the party you get more presents. No, those materialistic expectations are confined to Trey who remarked yesterday that he wanted to have a HUGE party with lots of people and presents. Kassady never was aware that the party was for her. She sang along lustily as we regaled her with the "Happy Birthday" song. She seemed shocked when I lifted her up to blow out the candles. "You mean, I can do this?" was the look she gave me. She did enjoy digging through the presents. Emme and Addison gave her some dress-up clothes and I do believe that was the hit of the evening. She tromped around in high heels and a tiara, cheesing for everyone. It was a fun night!

It's hard to believe that my little princess is 2

Kassady has the most infectious laugh

She was very impressed with the balloons. She dragged them around with her the rest of the day.

The Dora cake (a win-win with Kassady, a dedicated Dora devotee)

Kassady was entranced by the flickering candles. She really wanted to touch them.

Trey, Emme, and Noah (you can see his chin) waited for the blowing out of the candles (not to mention the cutting of the cake) with great anticipation.

As I held Kassady up to blow out the candles, she decided to try a different extinguishing technique which involved dousing the candles with large amounts of saliva. She's just like her Mom!

I think everybody got a hand in to help Kassady open her presents. All the kids were ripping off fragments of wrapping paper. OK, I did, too.

Kassady tried to play with all of her presents at once. She thinks that she's hot stuff with her dress-up clothes.