The BG received her birthday gift a little early from Momo and Popo. This little Janome Sew Mini is a pretty decent little machine. She whipped up her first pillowcase this afternoon. (Check out those personalized labels Momo bought her. Perfect for gifts for her friends!)
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On being a swim mom, a room mom, a wife, a mother, a sister, a friend…
4th Birthday Recap
We’ve partied for a week! Here are a few glimpses:
At school
The Birthday Boy is the Leader and the Flag Holder during Chapel
Opening Presents with Big Sister
The Birthday Cake
A Close-up of One of Those Dinosaurs
Swimming with Friends
Goodie Bags
A Homemade King Cake for Lunch with our Family (to go with our Gumbo)
A Card from Big Sister
A Favorite Gift (made by grandpa and daddy)
With all that’s gone on this week (Valentine’s Day, Grandpa’s Funeral, LM’s actual birthday, the party this weekend), I’m about “occasioned” out.
Happy Birthday Little Man!
It’s Party Time Again!
We’re planning for a big 4th birthday. The Little Man’s birthday is the 17th, but we’ll party on the 21st. These invitations went out today:
(The party will be at our local swim school where I teach a couple of days a week. The pool is indoors and always 90 degrees! Perfect for a February swim party!)
A fun site and some birthday wishes!
The Long Thread has the 100 Top Tutorials of 2008. It’s a great list, and I’ve already found two I want to try:
Do you have a favorite tutorial they missed?
BTW:
Happy Birthday Kristine! I hope the weather warms up soon!
On more glance at the Christmas tree…
It’s almost time to take the tree down. We will wait until next weekend to take down all the Christmas–and pull out some Mardi Gras! But until then, here are a few of the ornaments we’ve added this Holiday season:
Of course each has its own story.
The candy cane: The LM came home from school with a plain ol’ candy cane and said, “Mrs. Claus came to my class today and gave me this to put on the tree so Santa would know I listened good.” So we did.
The carousel: The kids and I took a weekend jaunt to New Orleans with my parents. We had a blast at Christmas in the Oaks and rode a carousel that went on and on and on and on… The best part of the entire trip–we were walking through “The Miracle on Fulton Street” when the LM saw a man (in regular clothes) with long white hair. As we walked past the man, LM looked backwards, with his chin on the ground, to see the man also had wire-rimmed glasses, rosy cheeks, a rounded belly, and a long white beard. Then, with his wife giggling beside him, the gentleman leaned down to LM and handed him a candy cane with a wink. I don’t know who was more excited to see the real Santa–LM, me, or my Dad!
The red bell: My grandmother gave this to me this year. My Dad made it back in his cub scout days.
The blue ball: Mrs. Lary sent these home with sweet fingerprint snowmen decorating them.
Somehow, I’ve misplaced the pictures of the ornaments from Great-Grandma, but she gave us 3 beautiful ones also.