Birthday Party Day

Brooklyn's birthday is tomorrow, but since Sunday birthdays don't allow for too much fun with friends, we decided to let her have a little party the day before. Only it turns out she was invited to Madi Hawker's birthday party today as well. Wow, what a Birthday Party day!
Madi had a princess party! It was so fun as the girls all dressed up as princess' and made necklaces. Brooklyn was so sad to leave and have to come home so we didn't get a great picture of just how cute Princess Brooklyn really was! This was her first birthday party that didn't involve family so she had to learn that she couldn't open other people's presents. This was a little hard for her. It's a good thing she had her own party planned right afterward because then she had her turn.

A few months back, Brooklyn and I were walking through the party store when Brooklyn found "The Backyardigan's" section and told me that she wanted everything there! That's where the idea was started that we would have a Backyardigan's birthday party for her this year. She was told she could have 3 friends at her party and after much contemplating she chose these three: Kami, Genna, and Bryson. Such cute kids!! I'm so glad she picked these three because they were great guests for Brooklyn's first birthday party experience.

Brooklyn opening her presents. She struggled this morning giving a gift to Madi and not having the exact same gift waiting for her to open at her party. Well guess what? Genna gave her that exact gift! Wow, what are the chances!? She got some other great gifts as well. Thanks again to all her very generous friends! Maybe we should just take all her other gifts back?

The kids played pin the bow tie on Pablo. Here's B posing with Pablo and all his bow ties!

As a side note, she loves party hats so yes, this party hat stayed on her all night. Until bath time at least!

This picture captured how she was the rest of the day. If she wasn't at one of the parties, she was giving us this kind of attitude. She's been waking up so early these days which makes for one ornery kid!

The night ended as she laid down for bed with her baby sister (not really, but it made for a cute picture). Hope she sleeps well. She has another big day tomorrow!