I have a 2 year old??

How in the world did my time fly by so fast? I swear I just had this kid yesterday!

This year, Sophie is obsessed with anything Elmo and anything Sesame Street. She LOVES it! So, of course, I decided I would make her party as Sesame Street! I had a blast working on this party! I think secretly my calling is for party planning ;)

I bought all the stuffed animal characters and a small Oscar the Grouch trash can and fish bowl from a friend of mine and used those as the primary decorations, along with streamers and a few Elmo/Sesame Street posters. I also turned our basement play area into Elmo's World from the show, using plain white plastic table cloths and permanent markers!

For her food, I made veggie cups (Grover's Super food), fruit kabobs (Abby's Magic Wands) with a star made of pineapple at the top, Monster Cookies, Oscar's Trash Can Treats (pudding with crushed oreos in gray cups to look like cans, and gummy worms on each one for Oscar's pet Slimey the worm), Mr. Noodle's Pasta salad, and goldfish crackers! I also made meatballs from scratch for meatball sliders and then we had some Rubber Ducky Punch! For her cake, I made just a small smash cake sized cake and then made an Elmo out of rice krispie cereal treats and used my grass tip to make "fur" out of buttercream. I also made cupcakes to look like more of the characters.

 

 Food Table!

 Cake!

 

 Cake and cupcakes!

 Birthday girl with most of her Sesame Street friends!

 Birthday girl on the day of her party!

 Closer look at the food table!

 I also put together cute little party favors for all of her little guests! I bought buckets and put a Sesame Street coloring book and set of crayons in each that I found in the Target Dollar Bins, and then added a packet of gold fish crackers and an apple juice. The little tag says, "Elmo Loves his Goldfish...his crayons too! Now here are some just for you! Thank you for coming! Love Sophie"

We had lots of her little friends come to play that day and she received a lot of fun new presents too!

The one thing we forgot to do at her party was sing happy birthday to her and eat her cake! So, after everyone had left, I saved the cake and the next night on her actual birthday, I brought it out and her daddy and I sang to her and she blew out her candle all by herself! Then we let her have at Elmo! 

This adorable Minnie outfit came from our daycare family, whose kids also happen to be Sophie's best buddies. Once I finally convinced her to put it on, I couldn't get her to take it off! haha!
Some facts about our 2 year old:
She is talking more and more each day, putting together more sentences and expressing her needs more and more.
We plan on starting to potty train soon since she is letting us know after she goes in her diaper.
She loves Elmo, her pink teddy bear (we can't go anywhere w/out at least one of these.)
She loves fish sticks.
She weighed in at 21 lbs so far (really small for her age, but she is healthy) and is 32.5 inches tall. Still a peanut, but we're working on it.
She is in love with the "what does the fox say?" song.
Knows her ABC's and can count to 10.
She loves to sing and dance.
She is sassy and mouthy in one breath, but sweet and loving and gentle in the next.
Living with her is exciting and interesting and can be somewhat of a roller coaster, but I wouldn't change it for the world. I'm so in love with my sweet 2 year old and feel blessed every day.