{08feb2011: Celebrate good times come on!}

Thanks for all the birthday wishes!  I don't know why, but Darwin's 2nd birthday was a bigger deal to me than her first!  I did show some restraint and didn't go as crazy as I could have, but she did have one heck of a birthday (and I actually started celebrating on Saturday, but we'll get to the prebirthday activities in another post).
Like last year, I made her wear a party hat (which she still isn't thrilled about).

Her grandma and grandpa VB sent her a present which she opened first (I just realized I didn't take a picture of it!).

It's a Paws Hide puzzle toy from Kyjen!  It's funny because at the pet store on Sunday I was thinking if I should finally buy a real brain game for Dar and stop using my cupcake pans (which seems slightly unsanitary).  It's a good thing I didn't because grandma VB is on it!
Darwin also got a card and giant Kong!

I considered not getting Darwin a toy for her birthday since her toy box is currently overflowing, but I couldn't resist.

These Huggle Hounds are supposed to be very tough and it has a rubber body and plush extremities, how fun!

After a few rounds of testing Darwin's brain and playing with the new toy, we moved on to dinner.  I thought of making (cooking) something special for her, but got lazy and thought of the next best thing!

A bunch of Darwin's most favorite things!  A layer of rice (leftovers from our dinner the night before), a pound of raw steak pieces, grape tomatoes and bell peppers!

As I was getting it all ready, Darwin the drama queen made it known that she was ready to eat NOW!

After dinner she got a snack of another of her favorite things:

Cored apple with peanut butter in the middle!
After more toy playing (and our dinner) we moved on to dessert.

Since I'm planning on making some kind of cake for the party/reunion on Sunday we settled on vanilla ice cream (I restrained myself from adding bananas to hers).

I had Oprah on in the background and Donald Trump was on.  Jason laughed at how Darwin was eating like she was a Trump dog!

After stuffing ourselves silly in celebration we ended the night with couch cuddle time.

Birthday's are so exhausting!