Happy Birthday Delia!

Right now, one of Delia's favorite things is cookies so we thought it was only fitting to have a Milk & Cookies themed birthday party. We invited all of her friends and decorated the house with brown and white polka dotted table clothes and pink plates, napkins and balloons. My friend Andrea did the invitations and I thought they were just beautiful--"Nothing is sweeter than Delia turning 2!"

Luckily the snow held off (the forecast kept changing that weekend), but it was freezing during her party. We're definitely going to have to research some fun indoor birthday party ideas for the future!

I bought Delia an adorable shirt (my new favorite discovery is Etsy!) and a purple tulle skirt for the party. She loved twirling around in it! Too bad she danced right out of it and spent the end of the party in her leggings :)

You can't see the skirt very well in this picture but you can see how excited Delia was for her party!

Here's a much better picture of the skirt

All smiles!

We baked a TON of cookies for the day! A huge THANK YOU to MaMa for baking all of the pumpkin cookies! John made his (in)famous sugar cookies with hot pink sprinkles and I made chocolate chip cookies.

Even after sending cookies home with the kids as part of their favor, we still had lots of leftovers. Good thing they were so yummy!

I got creative and slightly crafty for the party favors. I made cookie pops--sugar cookies with mini M&Ms on a stick. They were wrapped in plastic and tied with ribbon (pink or brown with pink polka dots).

John helped with the tags. They say "Thank you for making Delia's birthday so sweet"

We set up a bounce house in the garage so the kids could burn off some of their energy. We also had cookie decorating and even a dance party!

Delia had so much fun bouncing with Macey. John had to pry them out of the bounce house! He got a lot of video footage of the day, especially the bouncing and dancing.

All the kids had so much fun decorating cookies!

Delia loved decorating her cookie! She put all of her candy in a big pile of the cookie--no time spent making it pretty!

My friend Marci made Delia's cake and she did a fabulous job! I found some ideas online and she did a great job of incorporating all of them. Delia loved that there were real cookies on her cake.

Delia has been practicing blowing out her candles for a year now. Last year, she got a toy cake that lets you blow out the candles. Evidently her hard work paid off because she blew them out on the first try! She was so proud of herself too; it was precious!

Delia was so ready to blow out her candles!

Success!

Here some more adorable pictures from the day:

Mommy and Daddy with the Birthday Girl

John Grayson and his best friend, Jack (who Delia has a crush on!)

Kisses for Daddy

A somewhat successful family picture

Delia also had two smaller birthday celebrations. We had a playgroup party because three of the kids have January birthdays and then we had a family celebration on her actual birthday.

JGray was so excited for Delia's birthday! Almost more excited than she was probably because he's old enough to remember that birthdays mean cake and presents. He was the best big brother all week. He didn't get jealous when she got to open presents or when she got most of the attention. He was just genuinely happy for her to celebrate her birthday. He is the best big brother!

Silly faces before birthday cake

Celebrating January birthdays at playgroup

And finally, the obligatory Schmitt family birthday video :)