Kate is TWO!

To have a party or not to have a party...  I went back and forth many times about whether or not to have a friend party for Kate.  She still doesn't really get parties - maybe a little more because of how often we read "If you give a pig a party", but I wasn't sure if it was for her or me and considering how tired and pregnant I am, the whole party idea just never materialized.  I'm pretty sure that we'll do one next year...

SO!  Kate's birthday was a Saturday.  I told her every day all week long that it would be her birthday on Saturday.  We decided that we would all go up to Alliston for my ob appointment and then we would go out for breakfast - perhaps go to the zoo and just take it from there.

I took this photo before we left for Alliston.

Before we left for Alliston Kate had a snack - a banana and apple juice I think.  Ken and Kate dropped me off at the hospital for my appointment and then went and got gas.  As I was sitting and waiting my cell phone rang.  It was a slightly frantic Ken.  Kate had barfed all over herself and he was trying to clean it up and her up and we didn't have any blankets, she didn't have a change of clothes and he was running out of wipes. 

My ob sent me out with a hospital sheet but by the time my appointment was over and I went to meet Ken and Kate in the parking lot, Kate was mostly fine and Ken had the van roasting so Kate didn't notice she wasn't wearing a coat.  At this point we didn't know what to do.  Going out for breakfast no longer seemed like a good idea... so what to do?  We decided to go home and see if Kate would be feeling better later.

On the way home we drove through Tim Horton's so Ken could get breakfast and Kate declared she wanted a bagel so we got a bagel with cream cheese and she ate half of the bagel on the way home.  We watched her and she kept it down.  She didn't seem sick, but we still didn't know what to do with her!

After getting home she had a bath, was changed and then we had a family nap.  After the family nap the day was mostly over.  We decided to open presents.

Kate was given a Woody Doll, a Jessie Doll and...

the DVD Cars.  The Woody Doll and Jessie Doll - huge hit, the Cars DVD, not so much!

After that we decided to go see my Dad, who is out of the ICU. She was given some very cute clothes for her birthday from her Grandma and Grandpa - she especially loved the ELMO card.  We visited for a little bit and then left to go home.  On the way home we went to Kate's favourite grocery store - the Foodland in Schomberg.  She loves the train mural inside the store. 

We didn't ever get around to the cupcakes and the singing of Happy Birthday on her actual birthday so instead we did that on Sunday.   I had all these dreams about what kind of cake to buy - when I was thinking about doing a party... in the end vanilla cupcakes, a la Betty Crocker, with homemade butter cream frosting, tinted pink.

Kate really enjoyed the frosting, but wouldn't even try the cupcake!  All in all a pretty ordinary birthday for our sweet Kate.