Birthday Time Again!

Our second July birthday!
Skeezix turned 5 today.
We had a friend party yesterday with five wonderful families we know.
Parties for us are not usually drop-off occasions [although they CAN be].
We love to have the whole family stay – older and younger siblings, Mom and/or Dad.
The kids [17 plus 1 infant!] decorated t-shirts.
Angel out for a ride.

I am embarrassed to acknowledge I bought a pinata for the first time. Normally I make them, carefully over about a week. I like them strong and cheap. They are like $1.75 to make… ripped paper, some sugar, flour and water. And a balloon from the dollar store. But I didn’t leave myself time, so instead I spend $12.99 on this star. It was MUCH PRETTIER than mine are, and just as strong for this crowd.


A powerhouse on the pinata.

We even had the adults take turns… I should have posted those pics, huh?
Some lovely, fun gifts.

Preparing to sing!

TA DA.
This is SUPERCAT. On a CAKE!
Skeezix drew it and I recreated it out of partially hydrolyzed soybean oil and powdered sugar. 😉

Today was her real birthday.
They had VBS this morning at Pittsford Community Church.
Then she requested quesadillas for lunch and they played with some of her new toys from yesterday.
At 3:15PM or so, Nan picked her up for a date at Build-a-Bear. Or shall we say, Build-a-Super-Cat.
SuperCat is beautiful.

The brothers were very big on making today her day. They reminded one another constantly that it was her birthday.


I can’t not kiss this joy-filled child. I should have been videorecording her the last two days. She exudes JOY. She is just so amazingly joyful.

Check out the progression of expression on these next photos.
She is opening the mask and cape for BibleGirl, from the Bibleman series.




Mommy didn’t have it in her to make another cake… so we ate the left overs from SuperCat.