Happy Birthday Lainey! You are my sweet, cuddly little teddy bear. Your spunky little personality mixed with your love of "snuggling with Mommy" keeps me on my toes while at the same time melts my heart each day. I can't believe how fast you're growing up right before my eyes. I couldn't have asked for a more beautiful little girl, both inside and out.
Lulu turned two this week and someone seems to have snuck in and replaced my chubby little baby with sassy toddler! I feel like we blinked and now she is speaking in sentences, singing songs, running, jumping, dancing and playing pretend with her sister!
For Lainey's 2nd birthday, we decided to celebrate all things, "Nom Nom" aka Cookie Monster. Lulu loves her some Nom Nom! We partied with Grandma, Grandpa, Gigi, Babu, Uncle Poogie, Emily and Aunt Kay. There was tons of food, lots of Cookie Monster balloons, a Cookie Monster cake and even a Cookie Monster piñata. Lainey scored some great birthday loot and all in all I think it was a smashing success.
Party pics:
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| Lainey loved her "Nom Nom" shirt! |
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| A very incriminating birthday family photo. |
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| My happy cookie monsters. |
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| Kisses for the birthday girl! |
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| Some beautiful hydrangeas in our backyard. |
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| Lainey loved her birthday decorations! |
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| Especially her big birthday banner! |
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| Our first "real" birthday cake! It was delicious! |
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| The piñata! |
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| It wouldn't be a 2nd birthday party without birthday hats!! |
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| Or noisemakers! |
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| Lulu's smash cake. |
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| This, my friends, is what happens when a 7 month pregnant woman plans a birthday party. There was certainly no shortage of food! |
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| Grandma and Aunt Kay, on babysitting duty. |
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| Daddy make great steak and chicken kabobs for the party!! |
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| Daddy and grandpa, assembling the kabobs. |
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| The girls ran around like wild animals with all of the cookies and sugary treats around for the taking! |
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| This pint sized cookie monster was very happy that Aunt Kay baked some of her ginormous M&M cookies! |
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| She just loved all of the attention that day:) |
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| Me and Uncle Poogie. |
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| Chick fil a nuggets for the birthday girl!! |
Time to open presents!!
Time for cake!!!
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| Me and the birthday girl. |
Piñata time!
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| Post party snuggling on the couch with Grandma and Grandpa. |
Someone please stop time for just a little bit...my babies are growing up way too fast. (And yes. Going through these pictures made me cry like a baby!!!)
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| Lainey on her birthday, June 11, 2011. |
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| Lainey on her 1st birthday. |
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| Lainey on her 2nd birthday. |
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| If sweet baby girl #3 gets along even half as well as these two do, then I'll be one lucky Mama. |
Loved the pics! Has it really been two years since we've seen the Kinard family?? We are going to be heading down to NC next week, maybe we can catch up with you guys on the way back up. I think we will be driving to VA on July 3rd or 4th. Happy Birthday to Lainey!
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