A quiet birthday party

With James's crazy work schedule, the girls' birthday was a quiet family affair, which, in my book, is 200% okay. Wednesday night, on Megan's birthday, we let them open their individual presents, since we bought two smaller presents and one larger one. Cadence was ecstatic when she saw what we brought downstairs and Megan picked up on that excitement.Cadence LOVES this doll. She hasn't let it leave her side at all since she got it, except when we ask her to leave it in the car to go into the store.
Megan took little coaxing to rip into the paper once she saw her sister do the same thing minutes before.
She wasn't quite as excited about her present as Cadence was, but she loves it nonetheless. She tried to take half the pieces to bed with her that night and I had to sneak most of them out or risk losing them before she'd had the thing a whole day!
Sunday afternoon (today), we did the rest of their birthday. Taking an idea from Aunt Erin, we decided to let them decorate their own birthday cake. I did just the bare minimum and let them go crazy. Here's the before:
The girls loved it! They were crazy for it. Sprinkles, m&ms, sugar letters, colored sugar. Every little kid's dream. I'm surprised most of it actually ended up on the cake and not in their mouths (though Megan helped herself to some).
The finished product. Looks appetizing, no?

Once James brought down the big present, the girls went nuts, bouncing around him excitedly until he finally put it down and let them rip into it.

Needless to say, they love it. We also bought some large coloring pictures from Toy Story and the Disney Princesses so they had some fun pictures to color with their new easel.

Gotta love the mess that is their playroom, lol. But a messy playroom is a sign of kids that are having a good time, right? :-)