Happy Birthday week

It is going to be interesting having two girls with birthdays so close together. We celebrated Lisa's birthday on Friday, the 10th, with a small party at our apartment's bbq area. Her friend Alexis and her family were there, as well as our neighbors Sarah and John. I made pink play dough which the girls got to mix sparkly glitter into and then they did another craft with air-dry clay and princess jewels. I was too busy helping to take any pictures of all that. We then played musical chairs and hokey pokey. The adults were VERY good sports about all this cheesiness, which was great because Lisa LOVED it! She then opened her presents and we ate some cake. She was super excited about her Belle dress and her scooter. I think she felt like it was a fun party and that's what I was hoping for her.

On the 16th, Lyra's birthday, we got up and had a pretty regular morning cleaning up and getting Lisa ready the day. Once Lisa was on the bus to preschool, Lyra and I walked to the grocery store and it wasn't until I came home and looked at the calendar that I realized, Oh! Today is the 16th--my baby is ONE YEAR OLD TODAY! Lyra, obviously, really could have cared less and so I didn't stress too much about planning an elaborate party. Lisa, however, was VERY disappointed we were not making a big celebration out of it. I told her that lots of people celebrate their birthday a few days late or early and we would make sure and have some cake for Lyra when we went to Idaho Falls for the weekend. Which we did. Lyra was fascinated with the candle. Good thing she has frosting on her fingers when she reached over and put the flame out with her hand. So..Thank goodness I didn't completely forget her birthday. She never would have forgiven me for that one! :)