Maddy's 2nd Birthday

*sniff* *sniff* tears of joy, of course!

We can't believe it. Maddy is now officially two! My, the time has certainly flown. We decided to throw Maddy a big birthday party here at the house. She was so excited the morning of her birthday once she saw the big Dora bounce house arrive. She couldn't wait to get in there and start jumping. And jumping she did for most of the day! We had tons of food courtesy of Lolo and Lola of course. They just kept adding more and more food to the menu... Of course, anything for the granddaughter...

You can tell that Mike and I are rookies at this whole party thing. We had a pinata for Maddy's party. We handed Maddy a tennis racket to start whacking at the pinata. After a few whacks, Ninang Mel so kindly pointed out to us that we had bought a pinata in which you pull the strings to open it up... OOPS! So we quickly switched to Maddy pulling strings and she pulled the right one right away, so the other kids didn't get their turn! Oh well... THEN, I realized that oops again.. I forgot to give the kids bags to collect the candy... LOL ROOKIES!

At the end of the day, Maddy was exhausted and crashed... The following day, we took Maddy to UTC where they have a train and playground. She rode the train for the first time and just kept waving to Daddy and saying Hi Daddy. She looked so excited......