Happy 2nd Birthday Kyrah!!!

October 5th was my niece Kyrah's 2nd birthday. I can't believe it has already been 2 years since I spent the whole night at the hospital waiting for her to make her entrance into this world. I was rather excited when she was born too because I had order a girl and we didn't know what my sister was having, as she didn't find out beforehand.

Saturday was Kyrah's birthday party. It was a costume party and I went dressed as a struggling newlywed....which means I didn't dress up at all. Kyrah was Dot from A Bug's Life....my sister and mother made her costume.My sister dressed up as a trampy fairy.......ok, so she was just a fairy but with her boobs falling out of her costume I added the trampy part, lol! And my brother in law was a scarecrow.Here's my mother's costume....can you guess what she is?She's a pincushion....notice the little dots on her costume, they are pin heads. Everyone always thinks she is a strawberry but if you could see that she has a tape measure around her neck and hanging from the costume is the small strawberry that always accompanied pincushions you would be able to tell. She made the costume herself....quite creative. Here is what the actual pincushion looks like... And here's a picture that I just had to take.....good thing no one looked over the fence because this would appear to be something other than what it really was, my daughter fixing the drawstring on my mom's costume. Then it was on to opening presents.As you can see we have become a lazy society....instead of wrapping presents we now just put them in a bag with tissue paper, myself included. Well it was rather funny watching Kyrah open presents because as she took the tissue paper out of the bag if there were clothes inside instead of a toy she just shoved the tissue paper right back in the bag, said no and moved on to the next bag. Thank goodness I bought her a toy!

And then it was time for cake....Then my dad arrived in costume....As you can see Kyrah did not like his costume...he had one of those black cloth masks over his face where he can see out but you can't see in......so she went running to the nearest person, my DH.But alas....fun was had by all and Kyrah thoroughly enjoyed her birthday party....and all the toys she received.