Happy 2nd birthday, Baby Girl!!

My Baby Girl's birthday was August 5th. She wanted a Wo-Wo party. Wo-Wo is her word for dog. To give you some back story you didn't ask for, our dog's name is Walker. We got Walker when my niece TT was 2, and she couldn't say Walker clearly. She started calling him Wo-Wo, we started calling him Wo-Wo, and it stuck. We call him Wo-Wo a lot and now both of my girls do, too. Not only does Baby Girl call Walker Wo-Wo, she calls every dog Wo-Wo. She's perfectly capable of saying dog and doggie, but she chooses not to.

Gotta respect the gumption. 

Word. 

Anyway, where was I?

Oh yeah. Wo-Wo party. Back on track now. 

She has never wavered in her desire for her Wo-Wo party, so I was off and running with that theme. As always, I had these grand illusions of having stuffed doggies everywhere and a gorgeous dessert table with treats displayed in dog bowls and maybe a giant doggie bouncy house and Clifford the Big Red Dog making a personal appearance and.... and.... and....

Heaven help me if I ever win the lottery. I'll bankrupt us on party favors and silly junk like the kinds of things that land you on "Outrageous Kid's Parties" and "Hoarders". 

Did someone say Hoarders? Eww. 

Back to the party story. 

My grand plans never quite make it to reality, but a grand time was had by all, including the birthday girl herself. I enlisted the help of two wonderful Etsy stores, Sweet Birdie's Nest and Print Your Own Tee. 

Let me tell you another quick story about Print Your Own Tee. I had used April's shop on our Disney trip last December, with fantastic results. The shirts I made for the kids turned out great, and still look great. 

When I made those Disney shirts, I followed the instructions to a T. I assumed I knew exactly what I was doing this time around, even though I hadn't touched this stuff in 9 months. I used some shortcuts, and it didn't turn out great. ENTIRELY my fault, but as such, I don't have any pictures of the super cute T-shirt design that April made for me. I am tempted to do another shirt just to take some pictures. If I do, you know I'll post them here. 

In the meantime, you can check out Print Your Own Tee's Facebook page and check out all her great designs! She just posted some UT designs not long ago, so I'll be snatching those up before we kick off against Montana in 9 days! Whoo Hoo!

Here are some of the pictures from that day. I didn't get nearly as many as I would like. I'm the photographer in our family, and I was too busy with party activities to take nearly enough. 

Her grandparents got her a pink tricycle!

Her adorable UT dress from her sweet friend Porter. Look at my face here. I think this is my "Aww! How precious!" face.

This Clifford has been by her side ever since this very moment. He is in a constant headlock!

This is the HYSTERICAL helmet my in-law's got to go with the tricycle. She wears it all the time, and it makes me laugh every time I see it!

Here you can see the giant dog that my parents bought for Baby Girl. They also bought her a tricycle to keep at their house, but they didn't want to have two tricycles at the party, so they brought the dog. It's been a huge hit! She lays on it to watch TV, and I've been known to snuggle up with it on the couch myself.

The Sand & Water table is from my sister, Aunt Nee (short for Renee: pronounce that Aunt Nay in your head). The girls have had a ball with that outside. We don't have any sand in it, so I just fill it with water and add bubbles. Instant fun!

Does it get funnier than this????

Big Sis had to try that on for size.

Baby Girl getting a push from cousin A.

Displayed the birthday girl's beautiful pictures!

Here are the supplies we got from Sweet Birdie's Nest Etsy Shop. The sweet and talented sisters made our beautiful invitations, very easy-to-use water bottle wraps, and our gift bag tags. I'm so impressed with their work, and I think everyone should contact them for any party supplies you need. They were able to help me out with making our supplies more "girly" for our puppy party, and they are just so easy to work with.

Our gift bags had bubbles and candy in them. I couldn't come up with any cute dog-themed items to put in there. Kibble, anyone?

Sweet Birdie's Nest also has a blog that you can follow HERE, you can find them on Twitter HERE, and on Facebook HERE. Go check them out!

There you go! There's my Baby Girl's birthday party. I'm so sad to see her grow up, but I'm glad she was able to have such a great party with lots of friends and family surrounding her! 

Toodle-loo!