Chapter 26
March – Age 18
Charlotte's Second Birthday
Finn was practically buzzing. His baby was turning two years old. She was already growing like a weed. If the old wives tales were true, then she would keep growing until she hit six foot tall. As she was now getting old enough to understand what was going on. Finn had invited some people from school, some other kids and their parents from the church daycare. He truly felt like a parent now.
He got Kurt, Carol, and Santana to make food. He and Dave set up the new swing set he bought her out in the back yard. They had surprised Charlotte when she got up from her morning nap. She tried it out immediately. Of course Finn had gotten tons of pictures. The party was animal themed. Charlotte had a shirt with a giraffe on it and giraffe print leggings. Since she was so tall, it was fitting that her favorite animal was the tallest one in the world. Santana got into the spirit of things as well but wearing a black shirt with zebra striped leggings. Finn just wore jeans but wore a shirt with a lion on it at the request of his daughter. "You is tough as a wion Daddy," she explained.
Kids starting showing up around noon. The kids had animal shirts on. Even some of Finn's friends had dressed the part. Dave wore black jeans and a shirt with a gorilla on it. Puck wore a tiger shirt. Brittany was dressed as a unicorn, all white and glitter.
Everything turned out well. They had the play set out back, and a small toy play area in the living room. There were decoration all around and themed food. Lion King shaped mac'n'cheese, hot weiner dogs on a bun, and zebra oreo cake. The other parents commented on how cute things turned out. Santana was proud at how all this turned out. She could feel the pride radiating off Finn. He worked so far to give his daughter a party she deserved.
They played a few games and had cake. Charlotte had so much fun opening her presents. But after they had cake and did presents, the kids were shuffled outside to play in the back yard, which thankfully was fenced in. The parents were milling around chatting casually with each other, agreeing that for Finn being as young as he was, he did a pretty good job with the two year old party.
He wasn't going to be one of these parents who had crazy outlandish parties that cost a fortune – one of which he didn't have – and wanted to make do with awesome things at home. Santana had showed him pinterest, and that was quite a mistake. Finn's head was quite filled with all the great ideas that this platform had to offer. There were times that Santana had to hide his phone to stop him from going overboard. So there was the themed food that he found, got a jungle themed cake for her, since his icing skills weren't up to snuff. He did some simple decorations for the living room where there would be people hanging out. Overall, Santana thought he knocked this party out of the park.