I got some pictures of the kids playing, but oddly enough, I don't think any of them contain the birthday boy! However, Andrea had a good time playing with his cousins.
She made a door hanger for her new room with Daddy's help, and coloured some Diego pictures.
She played with the trains and accessories on Aiden's Thomas the Train table.
She liked looking at the Baby Jaguar masks, and making everyone else wear them and growl at her.
She and Daddy played soccer with the other kids (well, Andrea had fun with the cones).
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Andrea started out a bit shy with the grown-ups, but she was hamming it up by dinner time. She ate a pretty good amount of her food. After Daddy put her down to play, she wandered over to the kids' table and started helping herself to their abandoned plates--a pickle here, some veggies and dip there, a bite of this hamburger, a sip of that kool-aid . . . everybody was laughing like crazy, and she was completely oblivious to it (or just ignoring us). Hey, she thought it was a smorgasbord, just for Andrea! Of course, I was groaning inwardly at the germ factor, but it WAS funny. Then, she plopped herself in one of the little chairs, leaned back, and closed her eyes. Finally, she grabbed a cup and balanced it on her forehead! She looked like someone who'd a little too much . . . oh, I wish I'd had the camera then. It was the icing on the cake to her smorgasbord performance!
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After recovering from her meal, and re-energized with cake and ice-cream (!), she proceeded to serenade the adults with several of her songs: Twinkle Twinkle, ABCs, Mr. Sun, Itsy Bitsy Spider, etc. . . .
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Furthermore, the concept of the pinata is lost on Andrea. Aiden's parents get the nice kind, where the kids each grab a streamer and pull at the same time. First, Andrea just wanted to play with the pretty streamers. Then, as the kids all pulled, Andrea bent over to pick up their streamers, and a shower of candy fell all over her head! Andrea swatted the candy away from her face, as the other kids dove for it! Aiden's great-grandma was kind enough to lean out and grab several large handfuls of candy for Andrea, so she wouldn't be left out. :)) Andrea didn't even notice--she was yelling "Yay!" and picking up all the pretty streamers!
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Andrea's birthday party isn't until mid-July (a few weeks early, just in case Bud surprises us), but I am already looking forward to it, seeing how she had so much fun at Aiden's party. :))
2 comments:
Looks like a fun time was had by all :)
The weather was perfect too by the looks of it.
Counting the days till we see you!
Hugs!
This was a really cute entry. I could just visualize every bit of it. Good storytelling Julie! I LOVED the smorgasborg part! Haha!
~Donna
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