Purplicious Perfection!

Madelyn will be turning 2 (TWO!!) on September 10, so we had a birthday party for her yesterday. I love planning parties and I especially love a good theme, but I was initially a bit stymied as to which theme to pick for this party. Madelyn loves Elmo and Abby from Sesame Street and she loves Curious George as well but none more than the others. It finally occurred to me one day that my daughter has a particular passion for the color purple. When we began working on colors with her, we focused on the basics--you know, red, blue, yellow. She didn't seem to be particularly interested and she certainly wasn't distinguishing any one color from another, and then one day, inexplicably, she correctly identified everything purple that crossed her path. Go figure. Since then, she has gravitated toward all things purple and will answer "purple" if you ask her what her favorite color is (which is now a fully informed assessment since she has also correctly learned the rest of the rainbow).

Hence, a Purplicious Birthday Party.

It was quite a houseful, but the kids all did great and seemed to really enjoy playing together!

Lea, mercifully taking charge of helping the kids frost and decorate their purplicious cupcakes.

Madelyn specifically instructed both Kurt and me to wear a "fancy dress" to her purplicious party. Neither of us had anything that would suffice, so I went shopping in my sister's closet, which will from now on be my favorite place to shop (she being the maven of all things stylish and whimsical). Kurt managed to talk Maddie down to a purple button down, which he pulled off quite well. I was impressed, actually, with all of our guests' purple ensembles! Well done, folks!


We put on some music at one point and had a little dance party. Here's Maddie gettin' down.