Happy Birthday!
On Friday Gloria turned 2. On Sunday Thomas turned 7. So on Saturday we had a family celebration where we celebrated BOTH birthdays, but mostly Gloria’s since Thomas will have his Indiana Jones birthday party with his friends NEXT Saturday. Here are some pictures I managed to catch. There were other cameras present, so I may come back and add more.
First, “the cake.” I did the baking and frosting, Mom did most of the decorating, and Michael artistically placed the fairies and candles.
The princess was NOT happy about us singing “Happy Birthday” to her-at all.
But she did like blowing out her candles!
And EATING the cake
And playing with her brother
Then Daniel got really, really tired…and passed out on Cousin Gilah.
The expression on Gilah’s face is just priceless here. And I love how all the colors (hair and skin tone) all just go together.
Then the gift opening began! Gloria actually got the idea this time.
Hmmmm…What’s this?
It’s Dora!
A camera!
Dishes? Gee, thanks, Mommy.
Another camera. This one says “You’re beautiful!”
“Big Tinkerbell!”
“Open it, Daddy! Open it right now!”
An absolutely gorgeous smile from Daddy. (That’s the smile I see a lot, but can’t get on camera!)
Daddy demonstrates how to love on a doll.
But Gloria wanted to look at her instead. “No hug Tinkerbell.”
Meanwhile, Thomas opens his OWN presents
Hmm. This looks pretty cool.
A transformer!
Then Michael told Thomas he needed some help finding something outside.
He found it!
He was a little intimidated by the idea of the hills in our neighborhood, so Michael stuck right next to him to give him confidence.
He promised he wouldn’t let go, and he didn’t!
We had much fun. NEXT week, we will have MORE!
April 26, 2009 10:20 am | 
