Happy Half Birthday!

Sydney is 2.5 years old today. I can't believe it. My little buddy is getting so big!

I used to be a very creative person but life took over and I have lost all sense of imagination and creativity. I look to others for inspiration and came across this woman's blog somehow. http://bethanyactually.com/ It must have been the title of her blog that caught my eye since my niece's name is Bethany. I love that name so much. Anyway, I was reading through her blog a few weeks ago and she had this really cool idea for celebrating her daughter's half birthday. I thought is was a really good idea and wanted to do the same for my girls. I think these kind of traditions will be really fun and hopefully appreciated by my girls when they are old enough to understand....so, I rushed home from work today and quickly got started on a homemade "half" cake for Sydney. I tasked Jim with stopping at the store to pick up a balloon. Here are a few photos of our little half birthday celebration...

Be forewarned, I love to bake, but I have absolutely no abilities when it comes to decorating a cake. It was very tasty, it just looked pretty pathetic. Sydney didn't care, she loved it and chowed on a few bites. Poor little Sawyer didn't get a taste. I want to save her first taste of birthday cake for her 1st birthday in a few weeks. Needless to say, I won't be making her cake. I am happy to make the half birthday cakes, but I will leave the regular birthday cakes to someone who can actually decorate a cake!

Sydney loved her cake and her Elmo balloon.
This is my pathetic attempt at decorating the "half" cake. It certainly tasted yummy, it just wasn't very pretty. Oh well.

We let Sydney admire the cake before we cut a piece for her. By admiring, I mean we let her stick her fingers in the icing to taste test it.

Messy fingers taking bites of the yummy but ugly cake!

Little Sawyer, aka Soybean, enjoyed playing with Sydney's Elmo balloon. She was on the floor shaking her arms in excitement. She is such a precious little lady. What a joy it is to watch her with her big sister.

A very happy Half Birthday Sydney Elizabeth, we love you!