Serevina's 2!

Serevina’s Two!

I can’t believe she is already two!  A couple weeks ago I was talking to Amber about the birthday girl and she asked if Serevina was getting excited about her birthday.  I said no and then realized we hadn’t really been talking about it.  So I really made a point in the weeks leading up to talk about it often and to read birthday books.  It helped that there were a couple of birthdays in her classroom at day care so she had been exposed to some festivities, plus we attended Grant and Ade’s 3^rd Birthday Party last weekend.  Between their party and her big day there were lots of discussions about “happy birthday cake,” who was coming for her birthday, and singing of the “happy birthday” song.  Unfortunately we had to cancel her “friends” birthday party at the last minute.  We thought she had Hand, Foot, and Mouth (it was going around her classroom), but thankfully it was just some really bad eczema.  But since we had already sent out a cancelation notice we had a mellow party at home with Gigi, Papi, and Auntie Amber and hopefully we can reschedule the other party for soon!

When asked what type of birthday cake she wanted the most frequent response was “Happy Birthday Cake.”  Since I wasn’t sure what qualified as that I prodded further and possibly suggested things.  We settled on chocolate peanut butter.  I found a great pan at TJMaxx that makes three Jumbo cupcakes – it has six “cups,” three tops and three bottoms.  You cook them and then frost the halves together.  Amber made a delicious batch of  Barefoot Contessa Chocolate Cupcakes  We put them together and put a number 2 candle in one for Serevina to blow out and let her have it to chow down on. 

For the adults I made a delicious chocolate peanut butter cake that I found through pinterest.  It was awesome!!  I will definitely be making it again.

Serevina was a little unsure when we were done sining to her and didn't dig in to her cupcake like I thought she would.  But once she had her spoon in had she happily ate away!