Halloween

Just a quick post about Halloween (I know, it was almost a week ago). Story of my life, a day late and a dollar short :)

Here's a picture of Peyton wearing her Elmo hat I made her while going trick or treating. For just turning two, she got the trick or treating thing down pretty good. She figured out real fast that you say "trick or treat" when someone answered the door, and "thank you" after she got her candy.
Her mom and dad, and Grandpa and I took her out in our neighborhood, and of course Grandma puffed up like the proud grandma I am every time someone oohed and awed about how cute she looked.
I see now that I should have done the face a bit different on the hat. If I ever make another one, I will move all of the face pieces farther down on the hat, and put the eyes closer together. It didn't turn out bad though for the first time ever making something like this and winging it on the face.
Just had to share the picture of the little sweetheart.

Peyton’s Second Birthday

Now that the birthday party is over I can post pictures!

Peyton is very into Elmo right now, so for her second birthday I crocheted her an Elmo doll. I got the pattern here at The Craft Frog: Elmo Pattern . I changed the mouth just a bit from her pattern but otherwise did everything else the same. This picture is of him outside and the second one is in the house which is actually more the color he is.

Then, using the eyes and nose from the same pattern, I made an ear flap Elmo hat for her and a matching scarf.

The rest of the pictures are from her birthday party today.

A good friend of the family works as a pastry chef and cake decorator. She made this awesome Elmo cake for Peyton. Great job Lacey!

Checking out her cake.

  

 

 

 

 

Getting ready to blow out the candles.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Blowing out the candles.

 

 

 

 

 

 

See my cake? :)

 

 

 

 

 

 

The cake pops aren’t bad either!

 

 

 

 

 

 

Don’t know where they got it, but they even had an Elmo piñata.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Peyton had fun smacking Elmo.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

She was even laughing at him after smacking him :)

He was made pretty tough and it finally took some of the adults to pull him apart before the kids could gather up the candy.

Here are pictures of her opening up the box with Elmo and her hat.

I took some other pics at the party too, but these are the ones that are important to me.