Maddy's birthday

I decided to throw Maddy a birthday party at the Little Gym this year with all of her classmates. The last two years had been at Bouncin' Off the Walls so I felt we needed a change of pace.
The morning of the party Maddy and I spent decorating the house for her afterparty. There was pink and yellow crepe paper all over the livingroom, hallway, kitchen, and even hung from the ceiling fan above the entryway. We set out the cupcakes and snacks and got her all dressed up in her birthday attire.

New birthday shirt and princess tiara

When Chris got home we packed the kids up in the car and drove to the Little Gym. Some of her friends were already there so Maddy ran right off to play. It was a pretty cute place. Huge really. The kids seemed to love it! Everyone was smiling and giggling as they ran from station to station. They had cake and demolished the butterfly pinata then hugged Maddy goodbye. Another successful party. We then went back to our house and had my family and Chris' family over for present opening and visiting. Maddy got a TON of gifts! I have no idea where to put them. I just got done finding places for her Christmas stuff!

A welcome sign!

She was such a happy little girl

Liam had a blast too! It was a huge padded room perfect for an accident prone baby!

Of course we get everyone to look at the camera except the birthday girl who is hiding behind the blue balloon!

Maddy and 15 of her closest friends.

She wanted a bug themed cake. But only the cute bugs...

7 candles *sniffle*

The non-violent pinata. You pull the strings instead of smacking it with the stick!

Opening presents at our house.

Chris and I gave her her very own luggage with horsies and her name on it. She LOVED it. She loves traveling!

Tonight Chris and I are taking her out for a very special birthday dinner. We told her to choose any restaurant she wanted. She narrowed it down to two places: Training Table and 'the place with the ice cream station' (which is Toscano and it has a gelato bar). After doing 'eeny meeny miney mo', she decided on Toscano *YAY*. We are all going to get dressed up 'Fancy Nancy' like and go out on the town. Little Liam is going to stay home with Yaya. We wanted to make Maddy feel very important to have mommy and daddy to herself. Then it all starts over again tomorrow with Liam's first birthday.......