Happy Birthday to Irina!

Yesterday Irina turned two. She had a pretty good birthday, though I'm not sure she knew the difference between it and any other day. Well, there were presents and there was cake and everyone did seem to be making a fuss about something. But other than that.

We did a homemade theme with all of our gifts. I made her Bella Bear,



and some little guys,

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and a bag to keep them in,



which you can see next to the bear in the photo above. You can also see in two of the photos the orange birthday crown with the heart on it, which I also made. The bear is made from a Wee Wonderfuls pattern and the little dolls were inspired by a post at Kidding Around. We've done birthday crowns before, but the idea for a cloth one came from SouleMama.

Saren made a green bean bag with a ribbon coming out of one corner so that it will fly out behind it when it is thrown. It was her first sewing machine project. Harper made a book, that I helped her laminate using clear tape,



and Pat wrote her a story. I'm thinking of typing up Pat's story and adding some images and then uploading it to Lulu.com and buying one copy. It would be such a cool thing for Irina to have.

We didn't do much, just went for a walk and hung out together at home, but it was a good day.





Happy Birthday, my littlest one.