Mirei’s friend Lily turns one on Christmas Day, but her parents celebrated her birthday early this month with a Frozen-themed first birthday party in Alexandria. I’ve known Lily’s mom since we were kids ourselves as we went to Japanese Saturday school together growing up, and we reconnected this year after finding out that we have baby girls born only a month apart (to the day!). We were so happy to get to be a part of Lily’s very special birthday celebration!

Dan & Mirei at Lily's Birthday Party
Dan & Mirei at Lily’s Frozen-themed birthday party. So appropriate for the season!

 

Lily's Birthday Party
The birthday girl! Loved her outfit!

 

Lily's Birthday Party
She’s such a sweetheart.

 

The kids got to romp around in the soft playroom for an hour.

Mio crawling in the playroom
Mio, being the wild and active girl that she is, thoroughly enjoyed the playroom.

 

Mio playing in the playroom

 

Mirei joins the fun
Mirei joining in the fun

 

Lily and her mama
Lily and her mama Moe-chan

 

Mirei & Lily together
Mirei & Lily together

 

Mio being interesting
Mio being interesting…

 

M&M in the ball pit
M&M in the ball pit together

 

Dan rocking Mirei
Mirei being rocked by Daddy

 

Video clips that Dan captured of the kids playing in the playroom. They had a blast!

Afterwards, we went back to the party room to have some birthday cake!

beautiful snowflake birthday cake
Look at this gorgeous birthday cake!

 

Frozen-themed treats
Frozen-themed treats!

 

Lily's birthday cupcakes
Cupcakes looked amazing, too!

 

Lily's birthday smashcake
Lily smashing her birthday cupcake.

 

Mio ready to have some cupcake!
…and of course, Mio was happy to enjoy one, too!

 

Happy early birthday, Lily! Thank you for inviting us and letting us be a part of all the birthday fun. ♥ Let’s play again soon!