Birthday Party!

We had a really busy week!  On top of the usual craziness that seems to ensue around here we had a birthday party to prepare for.  Here are some highlights of the party.

Here is Hannah in the pool where she spend most of the party splashing and playing.

 We also got really good use of the wagon we got from Didi and Grandad with wagon rides for all of the kids.  Here are Hannah, Halle, and Afton being pulled by Jane and followed by Ayden (the lone big kid of the party).

 And here are Hannah and her buddy Finn whose birthday is in a few weeks. Yes, Hannah is shivering.  she did it most of the afternoon because she kept getting in the pool and doesn't have enough meat on her bones to keep her warm in 85 degrees.

 This is Hannah, her buddy Finn again, and the birthday boy Jackson.  They spent about twenty minutes taking turns on the trike that is too big for all of them.

Here is a little video of the main event. The wind blew out the candles, but that didn't hamper the cake eating.

 

Here are a few pictures of the cake eating progress.

Hannah continuing to dig in.

 Then she needed to cleanse her pallet with some celery.

 Jackson didn't want Hannah's cake to go to waste so he decided to help.

 This is around the time that Jackson decided that he was done and Hannah was still going with a drink at her side.

In the end neither one ate all that much of the cake, but Jackson seemed to understand how to demolish pretty well, while Hannah took the more dainty approach of eating all the fruit.

To end the night we put one of Hannah's presents to good use by giving her her very first bubble bath.  It took her a few minutes to investigate, but this was the final decision.