Bennett's Pool Party

In California we celebrate September birthdays at the pool.

 Bennett celebrated his second birthday the last weekend our community pool is open for the season.

 It wasn't balmy, but it was warm enough for all the kids to have a great time playing in the water.

 Orelia was very excited to celebrate Bennett's big day (especially since I strategically gave her a new bathing suit that morning).

Raise your hand if clothes are the most important part of a party!

 We were able to rent out the entire kiddie pool for the event, and co-hosted the party with one of Bennett's buddies who was born a week before him.

The pool is only three and a half feet deep, which is perfect for Orelia who can safely walk in the entire thing.

Daddy spent the whole morning at Bennett's side while he splashed around, "rode" the water bike, and played with trucks.

I washed some of Bennett's favorite trucks and piled them on top of his cake with some crushed Oreos for "dirt."  He was so excited to get his hands on it and blow out his candle.

Swimming really works up an appetite.

Bennett preferred the cupcakes to his actual cake, and downed about three in a row, as a birthday boy should.

Of course he also took his cake toppers for a spin around the pool.

Pretty much as soon as he saw his cake he was asking to play with the trucks, so we had to do cake cutting slightly earlier than we may have otherwise.

 Once Orelia got too cold from the pool she switched into a dry bathing suit (I know my children and brought second suits for both - since neither like to sit in wet bathing suits for long) and played "beauty salon" for the second hour of the party.  True to form.

 After three cupcakes Bennett had tons of energy to burn in the pool.

 He took a cue from one of his buddies and started blocking the water sprayers with a submarine.

 Hilarity ensued.

 There's nothing like getting completely drenched in the face.

 I had to stand in the pool to get these photos, but I knew it was worth to risk to my camera to capture Bennett's big smiles.

 It was all fun and games...

 Until it wasn't.  Ha!

 Luckily he recovered when he realized how much fun it was to drink pool water from his trucks!

 Disgusting!

We had so much fun celebrating this silly, funny, truck-loving boy!