Fiona turns 2!

For Fiona’s birthday, we decided to highlight her two favorite foods: ice cream and noodles.  Matthew made her a beautiful and delicious ice cream cake (shaped, somewhat like a noodle), which also featured my homemade strawberry rhubarb jam.  It was a hit!

   

We hosted a birthday noodle party the next day, which featured LOTS of noodles – Matthew bought boxes of noodles from our local cash-n-carry (we are seriously set for the year at least, if we can stomach more noodles after this event).  We dyed some of them over the week to ensure that we had lots of colorful noodles to make noodle art and jewelry, and we also created a noodle table to explore, dig, measure, and pour noodles.  At one point in the party, Matthew made noodle maracas and led a march around the house!  It was festive. 

    

Of course, we served pesto bow ties, homemade mac and cheese, and baked ziti.  Our sweet birthday girl, for much of the party, stayed in one spot, first eating several courses of noodles and then making a necklace and artwork.  It wasn’t until after cupcakes that Fiona finally got up from her chair to socialize with her friends.  She loved the noodle party!  

    

   

And now we can finally take a deep breath as we are through with birthdays for 2010.  Enter holiday season now.

p.s. though I’ve fallen behind on most extra-curricular activities lately, I actually managed to finish Fiona’s baby album just before her second birthday!  phew.  Now if I could just get back to our wedding album…