It seems like every other day we are eating cupcakes. I’ve often thought about this phenomenon as I’m trying to cut down on my sugar intake. There always seems to be some reason that I HAVE to break my no-sugar rule and just eat one more cupcake. Come on! How often is it somebody’s birthday?

Well…The truth is it’s somebody’s birthday or anniversary or just-had-a-baby day or something EVERY DAY!!!! So I guess I’m just not meant to be stick thin. Cupcakes are a fact of life.

If you’re Baby Bug that is not a problem at all! So we didn’t have a big blow-out birthday party for her this year. No problem! We’re just celebrating birthdays every day! Baby Bug thinks this is totally normal. It’s so fun to be TWO!

On Saturday we went to my friend Felix’s birthday party for her little girl who was born only one day after Baby Bug. Felix was due a month after me but her baby came a little early. It was the funniest thing when I was in the hospital and I walked down the hall to some nursing class or something and there was Felix with her baby! It’s kinda cool to have a friend show up where you least expect them.

Wouldn’t it be cool if our kids grew up to be friends too? So far they seem to get along pretty well. Hugs all around!

But of course the fun doesn't stop there. Oh no! I want to make sure my kid is good and addicted to sugar as bad as I am. From the red cup cake party we drove straight out to the sticks for a GREEN birthday party! We had green enchiladas, "nice big green leaf" salad, broccoli, green lemonade and GREEN JELLO POKE CAKE!

I’m not exactly sure how a “poke cake” is made but it has something to do with poking the cake and pouring jello inside it. I think usually the cake is white and the jello shows up really well but in the case of Baby Bug’s cake EVERYTHING was green. Green green green. It even had green cool whip icing. As Baby Bug would say, it was “TASTY!”

It’s so great to be two. She got some really sweet gifts too. I’ll probably have to blog about them by and by… but right now BB and her cousin Superchic are bouncing up and down on the couches at the coffee shop that I’m borrowing wi-fi from so I think I better be finishing this up and skidaddling.

Wow. What a fun day. I really underestimated how fun making cupcakes, getting some balloons, having some pizza with relatives and a bonanza of presents could be. It was a blast.

Bug just makes me proud. I don’t want to bore you with gushing but she is just a kick in the pants ALL DAY LONG. I think I could live on a deserted island with just her and be fine. Well, maybe I’d need an hour off every once in a while but really she is probably the most fun companion I’ve ever had. Sorry Toby.

We started the day off right with a breakfast of champions. Chocolate Cupcakes! It wasn’t supposed to be that way but somehow early-morning cooking and decorating turned into sampling. What was I gonna do? Say NO on her BIRTHDAY? I think not.

Technically today was the day before Baby Bug’s birthday but we celebrated it as her birthday because Gramma Pat had school to go to on Thursday, Baby Bug’s actual birthday. Gramma Pat goes to school to stay sober and we are very happy for that. It’s worth rescheduling around.

Anyway, making chocolate cupcakes (from a mix—groan, I know) with green icing was totally fun. It wasn’t exactly what I had in mind but it kept us both entertained for hours. Or at least until it was time to go buy BALLOONS!!!

My biggest regret of today is that I did not get a shot of little tiny Baby Bug holding her giant bouquet of green balloons. You should have seen her face. She was in ecstasy. Her eyeballs looked like they were going to float up and out of her head just like the balloons. She looked like she was right out of a cartoon about to float away with the balloons into the wild blue yonder. Thankfully she didn’t and we managed to wrestle them into the car without a single pop.

Then it was off to pick up Gramma Pat and the rest of the day was pretty much a blur of hyperactive-toddler on too much sugar and pizza and presents.

Happy Birthday Bug! I’m sure glad you were born!

The wrapping paper is shuffled into a corner. The birthday girl sits in front of the tv watching her “Enchanted Princess” movie with her new Cinderella Barbie Doll in her lap. My mom and CC chat in the kitchen, making Thanksgiving plans. Baby Bug is snoring away in the sewing room and here I am tapping away with cold feet at the little make shift desk my mom has for me in her living room.

The party is over. It was a hit. I took a zillion pictures but I’m only uploading my most favorites because my mom’s house is the most un-photogenic mobile home ever. Every angle was an impossible lighting situation. If I wasn’t blasting everyone with the horrid flash then their eyeballs were blurry from motion.

A few pictures turned out and those were cake pictures. I guess the candle light was just right. I’m so glad. If I had to pick a moment that was the most important to capture, I would have to say the cake. CC spent so much time on it and it turned out so cute. You can’t really tell from the pictures but it was a Cinderella Coach cake made out of two bundt cakes stacked bottom to bottom.

It was a really fun party. All the kids seemed to really enjoy themselves. I may just have to steal all of CC’s good ideas and do them for a party for Baby Bug some year.

On no other particular note than I just want to share this picture with you… This is Sarah. If I was a model scout, I would sign her in a minute. I know she doesn’t have the classic good looks that people look for but my camera loves her.

Just like my camera loves Baby Bug.

p.s. Check out CC’s blog for the inside story (as in how she worked her butt off) and her flickr pictures.