It's a Paaaawwwty!

In a rush to get to bed last night b/c my sciatica flared up, I left bags upon bags of birthday party supplies on the couch. This morning Kairi found them. I told her that they were special for her birthday party, and that the party was after church and her nap. That was when it began. Pawty pawty pawty pawty pawty pawty pawty pawty...... They talked about it in class, talked about it in nursery, she drug her daddy out of the church to get home for the pawty, talked about it on the way home. (I stayed home to catch up on all that I should have done the night before but hurt too badly to do -- didn't help, I was still in pain in the morning but at least I was rested.) She refused to take a nap because of her excitement for the pawty.

I was running late, of course, and the party began about 20 minutes after it should have, but several guests were late as well, so it worked.

Here's the pawty with running commentary.

We had these hanging from the ceiling in various places -- different shades of pink.


The spread -- minus the pretzel butterflies (cream cheese stuffed celery w/ pretzels for butterfly wings) which weren't done yet.


Dirt Cups


Ants on a Log (soy butter and raisins)


Critter Crunch -- animal crackers, honey bees, mini-pretzels, M&Ms, chocolate covered raisins, and gummy worms


Kairi digging in -- notice the number of ice cones around her....... Yeah, that was all her. We moved the rest.



Alex enjoying himself!


Kairi hiding


Kate and Carter!


Kairi loves her bubbles!




Carter!




Babies with Mommies


Baby Dash being held by Ms Dea!







Kairi helped herself



What happened when Mommy took the cupcake plate away


All done, let's play ... on the table


Presents!
Kissing the baby in the box.





She climbed into Mr. Heath's (Carter's dad) lap to have her book read to her.


That's the party!

Picture Overload!

Here are some pictures from the birthday party 2 weeks ago, and today at the park!

Swimming fun!


Alex with his great-great grandmother!


Biker Chick!


All the kids loooooved Alex


Relaxing in our chair



Today at the park:


Heather, Peyton, and Thraci


Peyton!




Thraci!





Kairi!





Kairi w/ random boy that helped her slide -- wasn't he sweet!


Kairi and Thraci!





Kairi and Peyton -- only time we got them in the same picture!