This past weekend made for a fun and exhausting time! On Friday, Aunt Allison and Caleb and Madison and also Grandpa John and Grandma Connie came from Nashville for the birthday party. Mary Katherine really loved playing with Caleb all weekend-they really get along and are such little buddies! Saturday was the big party day-I would like to think MK understood all the commotion but I do not think she did. She loved all the kids and the balloons. She goes nut when she sees balloons -'"OOOOOOHHHH!". Right now she is obsessed with ducks so I decorated her cake with rubber ducks and she went nuts for them. She could have cared less about the actual cake. However she loved the kiddie food and had 2 servings-fruit cups, chick fil a nuggets and cookie cutter sandwiches. I am sure she also filled up on goldfish and chips!
All her little friends were there (and I wish I would have gotten more pictures)-her cousins, Lucy, John Miller, Morgan, Wesley, Hannah, Madden, Makenzie, Austin, Anna, Reese, Weston and Grant (his mommy came for him b/c he was sick). We missed some of our other buddies due to sicknesses and out of town visits:( I hope everyone is feeling better!
We opened gifts after most people left with just our families and some close friends-the Morans, the Horners and the Longs. Well, actually Caleb opened most of them for MK because he was so sweet and excited and she has no idea what was going on. She LOVED all her gifts once they were opened however. They are all over the house and she has been in heaven. Thank you so much everyone for your kindness and generosity-it was too much! We are just happy that everyone could be here to celebrate with us. Today we turned MK's carseat around (she won't be one till Wednesday, but we thought it was ok) and she watched her new Curious George DVD on the way to Lucy's baptism and didn't miss a second (thanks Wesley and Hannah!).
One more thing-I want to say a big CONGRATULATIONS to our friends Sally and Joey Stabile who welcomed their third child (and first daughter!) Stella Maria Stabile early Saturday morning around 3:30 am. Sally actually sent me an email from Northside telling me she was in labor and she was sorry they'd be missing the party! What a mulit-tasker! We can't wait to see pictures of
Stella and hope everyone is doing well.
Here are a lot of pics. They are all out of order (notice MK wearing her slip in the first pic-after cake)-also some are from Friday night.
Opening her baby cradle after the party
Mary Katherine's "1st" Halloween (she was only a few weeks old on her real first Halloween, so we're going to consider this her 1st) was so much fun! She ended up loving her duck costume after throwing it several times during the week when we tried to show it to her. She was so excited and knew something fun was up. We ate pizza with several other families we are friends with in their cul-de-sac and then went trick-or-treating in a rather large group with several strollers, push cars and wagons (as one of the kids called, the "Halloween bus"). We even had several small babies in their Halloween rompers all bundled up! Jay was a scary gorilla and some of the little boys wanted him to chase them, but then they got too scared and wanted to wear his mask and hands and chase him! Luckily MK was already used to the mask and it didn't really phase her. She was too excited being pushed around in her car, eating crazy bread from Little Caesar's and having her first dum dum (with supervision of course). The sugar made her wild! We actually made it to about 30 houses with her and went home because we were tired! She held on to a bag of skittles most of the time and had no idea what to do with them but loved holding them. Here are some pictures of our little duck and other little friends.ps-Big Congrats to Ker and Pat on their Halloween baby, Fletcher Joseph!!! He is PRECIOUS!
