Dolly's 2nd birthday party

The magical day has arrived. One of the two days I look forward to yearly (for 2 years now) - our birthday parties - with Blessed family and wonderful neighbors.

Of course like every party dressed in our finest (because other days we just party in our underwear).

Chloe May has two girl friends six months older - whom we both really love - Rory is one of them (long story short, Rory was also there the 12 AM phone call asking her mom to watch Matteo so I could go to the hospital [and get some epidural!] - Rory was five months old and on the team already!

Cousin Rocco says Chloe is his best cousin ever, such a sweet boy - always at our parties and ready for a good race with Matteo - we love his innocence.

The Grandmothers smiled and helped put the party together with their delicious salads and warming demeanor - and how many requests did I get weeks previous for Grandma's famous cookies? :-)

Of course our friend Patrick and his siblings  helped celebrate!

The pinata was great fun, though to be honest I am a horrible pinata hostess when going by age - I only got up to 5 and it broke pre-all the children getting a swinging turn (though I would like to blame it on the pinata HOLDER - Jules, who in hindsight hung it way too low!)  Don't worry Matteo has already requested one - for his birthday.  And no, the pinata was not filled with loads of candy, rather just enough to satisfy  your sweet tooth for two days (unless you are a glutton) - and then only one, otherwise it was filled with rings with large gems, $100s, necklaces, some whistles, a few moms came up and gave me a kudos or two :-)



more festivities to follow...