Monday June 30

On Monday (June 30) we had Mackenzie's 2nd birthday party. It kind of snuck up on us - something about the month of July following June and that the 2nd of July is right at the beginning of the month really confused us. Anyway, we had it at Evergreen Park. She was hilarious opening gifts. The first two were clothes and books (which she loved) from WeeWee and the Richmond Grandparents. That was pretty typical for a two year old - although she wanted me to read the books (or at least look at every page) before she'd go onto the next present. Then she opened a bubble mower, a Dora doll with baby bottles and hair brush, and an inch worm riding toy. Yeah - we are calling it the "sixth child syndrome" - once she opened a present, she wouldn't let go of it. So she is there holding the bubble mower in one hand, while she uses the other hand to open the next present. At one point she was sitting on the inch worm, holding onto the bubble mower with one hand, with the two baby bottles and the brush for Dora and the Curious George figure from the top of the cake in the other - we had used one of the many wire ties they use to keep toys in their packages (for once I was glad they use so many of those things to keep toys in their packages) to tie Dora to the bubble mower. Now the whole time, she isn't really enjoying herself - at least she didn't smile at all - she was concentrating too hard on making sure no one (SiSi, TY, etc) touched one of her toys. Everyone else is laughing so hard we can hardly stand it. Getting all the stuff home was interesting - since she still didn't want to let go of them. We finally got everything in the van - but she had to still hold onto her "bug".