Josie's second birthday

We planned with some neighbors to have a real Halloween party for the kids in our building. We had to push it back a weekend so it landed by Josie's birthday on the 11th, thus the Halloween party became Josie's birthday party.

A couple days before the party we thought we may as well send out a Whatsapp message to the group of parents from Lily's class, thinking only a couple would come with it being such short notice. Many came :)

The result was a party extravaganza with over 30 kids plus parents. There are smaller weddings.

We had an owl cake made by Lisa, banana cake muffins with green slime (actually delicious cream cheese frosting colored green), a vomiting Jack-o-lantern carved by Oli minutes before the party, 100 glow bracelets, colored cellophane for kids to put over the lenses of the flashlights we told them to bring, a trick-or-treat session where the kids ran around bombarding the parents on the patio with "Trick or treat?!" to get candy off them, and after that I got talk to adults and drink mulled wine for 30 minutes before cleaning up.

The only snafu was that Josie is 2 and we threw her a Halloween party to which kids and adults came wearing hideous masks and face paint. We had to hold her for an hour, then she got over it just in time for singing happy birthday, which we only had to do twice because I realized I hadn't lit the candles the first time.

Final observation. I thought the kids would come in simple costumes, but having never gotten to do proper Halloween, these kids came decked out in cool and frightening costumes!

Happy birthday, Josie!
(Even though we don't have a photo of you at your party. Maybe there's one on Dad's phone? We were kind of busy throwing a party.)

Update: We found one...

...showing half your face.

Love ya, babe.