Her actual birthday was on a Friday so Mr. Hunt had to work. The good thing about her birthday being close to Christmas is that sometimes Mr. Hunt can be a little more linient with his work schedule since a lot of other people are taking off for the holidays, so he ended up taking the second half of the day off.
In the morning, we had an easel from Ikea all set up and ready for her to play with. We also wrapped some chalk and markers for her to use on it. She loved it right away of course. Then Mr. Hunt went off to work. Mr. Hunt and I also blew up a bunch of balloons just to have scattered around the family room for her to play with. Those were a bigger hit than the easel at first!
I cooked Jane some chocolate chip pancakes. Lucky for me, we usually eat waffles since they are easier, so when I mentioned pancakes, she thought she was getting actual cake for breakfast. Best Mommy Award right here for that one.
We also made our Christmas cookies on her birthday. Normally I would have done this earlier in December, but since our refrigerator took forever to come, we were just getting around to it. Jane loved it though. I, on the other hand, was so overwhelmed. It was hard to make cookies with a two year old.
Then Jane and I just hung out for awhile before lunch when Mr. Hunt came home. Mr. Hunt bought Jane a special gift this year and he was so excited for her to open it and use it that we did that right after lunch, before nap time.
He got her a jump-o-lene. Basically its a blow up looking pool thing that she can jump in. Its a lot safer than a trampoline, but this thing takes up so much space. Thank goodness for the upstairs bonus area. She of course loved that too, and I think Mr. Hunt loved it just as much, if not more.
Then we put Jane down for a nap so that we could get ready for the evenings activity. We took Jane BACK to the James Island Festival of Lights. When we took her the first time a few weeks before, it was just for a fun Christmas activity, but she LOVED it more than we could have expected so we knew we wanted to take her back for her birthday. You can look it up, but its bascially a display of a bunch of Christmas lights which Jane loved this year, even if it was just a few lights on the neighbors house. You drive through a 3 mile display, but you can also get out and there were some activities to do out of the car too.
So we drove through once, got out, ate dinner, built a zebra (kind of like build a bear, she picked out the zebra), ate kettle corn popcorn, watched others roast marshmallow, rode the carousel and got to ride her favorite which was the elephant, and then got back in the car and drove through the lights one more time. Jane got to sit in the front seat with me when we saw the lights. The place is so busy, you only got about 5 miles an hour and most people have their older children riding in the back of trucks and vans as well. Jane would get so excited with each display. She would jump up and down and scream out what she saw. I can't wait to take her back again next year.
That night, we didn't do anything special as far as a cake or anything since it was just the three of us and her birthday party was the next day. I think Jane had a wonderful birthday. Ill let you know about the party in the next post.
Love,
Jennifer
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