Dora Party

Camryn loves Dora the Explorer so we had a Dora party theme. She loved waking up to this spread:

Here's the Dora Saves the Crystal Kingdom cake I made. It's a little sloppy but I liked how it turned out overall, as it was definitely one of my more ambitious cake attempts. I used chocolate ganache for the brown and used food coloring for the other colors.
The day was very busy as I wanted it to be full of fun things for Camryn. Merrick did work all day but that doesn't mean us girls couldn't party right? We started off the morning at Chuck E. Cheese. You get 20 free tokens on your birthday so I figured this was the right amount for me to go with the girls and play some games for an hour. Then we went over to Barnes and Noble to spend a gift card from Aunt Britney and play with the train table there. I was pretty tired of chasing Avery and Camryn around by that point so next we went to a nearby park so they could run around freely. It was a nice day out (it's snowing again today so we had to get our fun in while we could!).

Then we went to lunch with daddy at Ninos and opened a few of the presents from Camy's grandparents. Then the big event for the evening was swimming! Avery has swimming lessons every Friday night in Menomonee Falls and Camryn has been so sad that she hasn't been able to go too. So last night after Avery's lesson they had open swim at 7:00 so we all got in and had some fun playing around. Camryn was really hesitant at first but eventually was jumping in with no fear and saying "I simmin'!" (I'm swimming!)

When we got home we were tired but we still had a cake to eat. Don't you love her lips in this picture? She does this face all the time. She had a little trouble blowing out one candle. She tried to do it very gently and took about 10 tries but eventually got it out.

Yum! We finished up opening the last few presents and went to bed way too late. What an exciting day. I can't believe she's two now! Thanks everyone for the birthday wishes and thanks to the grandparents for the great gifts! She's been playing with her new toys all morning!