A Purr-fect 2nd Birthday Party

Ella LOVES kittens!  Which is ironic since the rest of us in the house are dog people, but it made for a perfect birthday theme.  We had kitten silhouettes in windows, in yellow of course, her favorite color.  And Addy wrote Happy Birthday on the chalk board.  We had Granddad and Meme, Grandma and Grandpa, Granny, and Jean and Tom over for a fun get-together.  Ella was super excited, super happy and I think felt totally celebrated!! 

 What a difference 4 months makes - at Christmas Ella could have cared less about presents.  As soon as she saw presents on the table she was saying "open presents". 

 Thank goodness for Addy, otherwise we would have never made it through the gifts.  Made the mistake of opening Addy's present first which was a kitten that meows and purrs and moves around.  It came with a milk bottle - Ella fed kitten while Addy opened most of her presents.  Granted, a lot of her presents were clothes, which she totally needed, but for a 2 year old were not the most exciting gifts to open! 

 A new sandbox built for 2.

 Ella clearly has figured out cake and it took no time for her to start sampling the icing.  Note the clothes she has on.  I say that they weren't exciting to unwrap, but I guess kitten got full and she stopped feeding it and she decided to try on some of her new clothes.  But she took them to Granddad to help and he just started layering the clothes.  She ended up with 2 dresses, a pj top over the dresses and pj bottoms under the dresses. 

 Next time I start fretting about the cake not turning out exactly like I wanted I will pull this pic out.  Does she realize how long it took to try and make those eyes look perfect?!

 The family!

Best free party decoration ever!  Pictures of cats doing funny things that I got off the internet and printed.  Ella cracked up at these for days!