Tonight we celebrated Abby's 4th birthday with her cousin Leah who turned 8. Abby's birthday is actually on Wednesday and Leah's was last Friday so we decided to have the family party between the two dates. Abby couldn't wait for the party to start, she started asking for it when she woke up this morning. It was a fight to get her down for a nap, but I prevailed and she slept. My parents came over early to help put together the fruit kabobs and my dad hung some hooks by the front door for me. My brother and his family came later and we had dinner. The butterfly cake was a big hit and tasted great. After a few taco spills, red finger jello hands, and lemonade spills we had presents and headed outside to try out the new toys. After everyone went home Abby asked me if she really was 4 years old now. I tried to explain again that her birthday isn't until Wednesday, but it was just too confusing. So I finally just said, "Yes honey, you're four years old." What's the difference right?
My mom helped put together the fruit kabobs. These are fun to have at parties and the kids really like them. Abby was in charge of handing over the purple and green grapes. Don't those kabobs just look great?
Finger jello is also a must when you have kids around. Micah kept asking for more jello and it wasn't until later in the meal that we realized he had red hands. Too funny! I just had to take a picture.
Here's Leah the birthday girl turning 8 and Abby the birthday girl turning 4. Seth is behind them.
Abby was ready to blow out the candles, but she had a little trouble. The first candle went out right away, but she had to take a few blows to get the others to go out. When she was done, we added four more candles and did the whole routine over again for Leah who also had trouble with the candles and I didn't even buy the tricky ones. Go figure!
Abby got new Barbie skates from Nana and Papa. She couldn't contain her excitement. She had asked for some skates last week so I knew she would love it. She immediately put them on and tried to go around the island in the kitchen. After dinner we went outside and she had them on again. There was really only one big fall, we'll see what happens tomorrow when we try again.
Here's the gang hanging outside after dinner.
Abby tried to do a one woman parade. She was practicing her Miss America wave while throwing pretend candy to her admirers. She's been to so many parades that she knows that candy is an important part. :)
My brother thought he would be funny and sit on top of me while my dad took my picture. You can tell from my huge smile that I was laughing quite hard. My brother cracks me up!
My mom helped put together the fruit kabobs. These are fun to have at parties and the kids really like them. Abby was in charge of handing over the purple and green grapes. Don't those kabobs just look great?
Finger jello is also a must when you have kids around. Micah kept asking for more jello and it wasn't until later in the meal that we realized he had red hands. Too funny! I just had to take a picture.
Here's Leah the birthday girl turning 8 and Abby the birthday girl turning 4. Seth is behind them.
Abby was ready to blow out the candles, but she had a little trouble. The first candle went out right away, but she had to take a few blows to get the others to go out. When she was done, we added four more candles and did the whole routine over again for Leah who also had trouble with the candles and I didn't even buy the tricky ones. Go figure!
Abby got new Barbie skates from Nana and Papa. She couldn't contain her excitement. She had asked for some skates last week so I knew she would love it. She immediately put them on and tried to go around the island in the kitchen. After dinner we went outside and she had them on again. There was really only one big fall, we'll see what happens tomorrow when we try again.
Here's the gang hanging outside after dinner. 
Abby tried to do a one woman parade. She was practicing her Miss America wave while throwing pretend candy to her admirers. She's been to so many parades that she knows that candy is an important part. :)
My brother thought he would be funny and sit on top of me while my dad took my picture. You can tell from my huge smile that I was laughing quite hard. My brother cracks me up!
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