Elmo Party!

I’m finally finished organized pictures to post for Anna’s birthday.  Poor baby has a birthday during the busiest time of the year!  Despite the chaos, we managed to have a really fun birthday party for a really fun little girl! :)

This year, we hosted Anna’s party at The Woodlands Children’s Museum.  Back in October when I started planning this party, Anna was all about Elmo, so it seemed like a fitting theme…

Party table:

Daddy made this awesome sign for the party! Go Daddy!

And Mommy made this much smaller, less impressive "sign":

And these were yummy! I may or may not have had more than one. 

The kids played and had a great time running around the museum.  Anna decided to go “fishing”, so she was pretty much soaking wet the entire time. 

She went in and out of the gate approximately 1,000 times…

… until she found a grocery basket to push around.  We had to pry that basket out of her hands when it was time to go to the party room!  Thankfully, she can easily be persuaded with food… ;)

As soon as we lit the birthday candle and started singing happy birthday, our little birthday girl turned into a statue.  She made no eye contact with anyone, and the girl literally did not move a muscle.  It was the funniest thing I have ever seen!  I am SO mad I don’t have that little face on video – I’m not sure that this will do it justice…

She stared at the candle for the longest time until she FINALLY blew it out.  Whew!

Now… onto the good stuff. 

Like orange icing… that stained everything it touched.  Thank you very little, HEB.  (They were good though!)

And of course we had to make time for a family photo op:

Aunt Lindsay & Spaceman, YaYa & Boompa, and the Pratis joined us for the “after” party.  Since they drove all that way, it seemed only fair that we feed them dinner and get a little more playing time in…  which pretty much consisted of Anna opening up her presents as slowly as possible.

Luckily, you had some VERY eager four year olds ready to help as she started to run out of steam:

This one was a big hit:

But I think the best present for this little girl was UNDIVIDED attention from her YaYa!

Happy Birthday Little Miss!  I can’t believe you are TWO.