Claire's birthday fell on a Saturday this year which was so nice for our birthday morning celebrations. The house was all decorated with streamers, balloons, and banners when Claire woke up then we had a yummy birthday breakfast. I told Claire that we could have anything she wanted for her birthday breakfast and she requested cut up strawberries and bananas. One of the funny things about the morning is that we were all saying Happy Birthday when she woke up and she was adamant that it was NOT her birthday until she blew out a candle...we quickly added a candle to her breakfast plate so the celebrations could begin. We decided to let her open presents from our little family and some of the gifts from her Papa and Mimi. I think she was more excited about her Jesse and Woody dolls than her bike. It was such a fun morning! One of the other perks of her birthday falling on a weekend was sharing the morning with both sets of grandparents and my sister, Sara, and her kids.
Saturday afternoon we had her big party at a local gym. This was the first year that Claire was in charge of her guest list and it seemed to grow by the day. I think we ended up with about twenty kids there, mostly from her class at
MDO last year and her cousins. I was so excited that my
bestie, Sarah, and her kids were in town from AZ and could party with us too. Some of the highlights of the party were watching Claire in the big three person swing and run around with her friends...she seemed so grown up and so much like a kid all at the same time to me. Allan made her poodle cake that was so cute and so yummy. It was a fun party!!
I had to add this photo of Jacob playing in the mat tube thing...he was in heaven running wild and falling on mats. This picture just cracks me up, it captures his personality perfectly right now.
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Very fun party. And that picture of Jacob is hilarious.
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