The Month of the Birthdays!

Sweet Parker turned 2 this week and we had a great time at his Handy Mannie themed birthday party!

Julia was very entertained by the balloons and spent most of her time at the party hoarding all of them, letting them go, and then starting all over!

The birthday boy!

The pinata was the highlight of the party! You just had to pull the strings to make the candy come out instead of having 10 two year olds swinging a bat to break it. Here is Sol pulling the string. Julia has talked about "pulling the string" for the past two days. I think it definitely left an impression!

Julia only picked up the Tootsie Rolls. But, she picked up ALL of them and carried them around in both hands until we left the party. It took some major convincing to make her let me put her hard earned loot into her bag!

Julia, Sol and Maggie Grace enjoying some birthday cake.

Parker decided to hop on the pinata and scream "giddy up" when we were through with it. Hilarious!

After the Parker's party, Julia and I raced to Caldwell Discount Drug where Santa had come to visit. She wasn't having it.....end of story. I bribed her with every toy in that store. Nothing worked. When we got in the car, she said, "Mommy, I didn't no like Santa."

Saturday night, Aunt Jane, Robin and my family came over. We cooked dinner and celebrated Aunt Jane's birthday. Robin just moved to LA and is so much fun to be with. We ended the night in the hot tub and even had a buncan party. I am trying to bring buncan parties back.....why are they only for kids?

The last very special birthday that we celebrated this month was Mimi Watson's 100th birthday! Mimi is Scottie, Leslie and Robin's grandmother from Earle. I have a lot of happy childhood memories that involve Mimi and times spent at her house in Earle. The party was wonderful and there were so many people there to celebrate her life! She was beautiful and classy as always. Julia had some other ideas about how she wanted to celebrate so we had to make a quick exit. We ended our day at Pancho's restaurant where she was much happier.

After all of these birthday celebrations in the past week, Julia requests the Happy Birthday song every night before bed! She also thinks you are supposed to have cake after every meal.