This past weekend, we celebrated Chloe’s 2nd bday with another Music Together bday circle led by Teacher Jessica (from whom we’ve been taking MT classes since Dylan was little!!!)! Chloe had a great time with a bunch of her toddler room buddies, including her “bestie” Willa (her BFF according to the gals taking care of them!), little Aisha (Jada and Evie’s baby sister), Kayla (teacher Lauren’s daughter), Nadine and little Evan (who just started a couple of months ago).
We started at 10:30 so we could try to stick to the preschool’s napping schedule for this age set, but Chloe didn’t nap at all! She partied until just after Rachel, K. and Taliana left (around 5:30pm!) and then, when she finally fell asleep, she didn’t get up until 6 the next morning!
Tom has been taking her to music class lately (while I’m at dance with Cameron), so she hung out with him for most of the music making! At first, she seemed pretty confused–what were teacher Jessica and all of the MT instruments doing in our house??
She finally got comfy enough to venture off Tom’s lap when the instruments came out! Look at that little piku!
Cameron had a blast, too. Many of Chloe’s buddies have older siblings about Cameron’s age, so many of her own buddies were there, too, including her best bud, Jada.
Now, the bigger kids were a bit self-conscious about participating in music with bayyy-bies, but Julie, Dylan and Taliana did participate some and they all enjoyed hanging out with each other, too! They also helped label the foods on the table–Julie made a “miled” salsa label while Taliana wrote a cursive “medium” label; Julie and Dylan made labels for the almond butter and peanut butter and jelly sandwiches (Tom also made homemade Mexican rice–which got kudos from Willa’s mom — and beans as well as a delicious chili)! They’re so helpful!
She was such a big girl. She ate all by herself!
We made 3 dozen cookies and cream cupcakes and 11 vanilla agave cupcakes for cake time (batter was one cupcake short!). We had LOTS of volunteers to help Chloe blow out the candles!
It’s hard to believe that another year has passed! Chloe is quite an independent li’l gal with a great sense of humor (sometimes she just cracks herself up at bedtime!!) and a great ability to say what she needs or wants! It’s also hard to believe that Tom and I actually pulled this party off! We had to stay up all night to clean the house and prep the food, but we did it (we gave each other lots of high fives!).
