Birthday Pool Parties

This weekend was a busy one in Fairfield where we went to two different birthday pool parties! First, we celebrated my niece, Avi's, 8th birthday. I can't believe she's already so old!!

Her Mommy, Coco, made the cake which was covered in sharks, life preservers, and a buoy! I got to help a little - putting stripes on life preservers, mouths on sharks, sugaring the buoy, and I did Avi's name!

Mira had fun spending time with all the family. Here she is with her Aunt Coco.

Mira loves the water and was so content bobbing along in her float that she fell asleep! Listen to the noise in the background - she can sleep through that, but not through the night!!! Maybe we should get her a water bed...(do they still make those?). I'm sure that would be approved by the APA...right?

After Avi's party, we got back into cake decorating mode. I got to help Coco with her second cake of the day - a big fish cake!

Then we were off to party #2!! This was a birthday party for a friend's little boy. More swimming and more sugar...yay!!! We had a great time playing "water volleyball" and Kenny and my brother did some "Wipe Out" stunts on the slide.

Kenny spent most of the day horsing around with my nieces - having splash wars, throwing them around, and otherwise starting mischief - they loved it! This is a rare moment of peace and cooperation; Olivia and Kenny must have made some kind of pact.

Mira stayed awake this time and enjoyed riding "Shamu" (no worries - Kenny is hiding behind the whale and has a hand on her). Later, she got in another float and stayed there perfectly happy for about two hours!! The adults got tired and hungry before she did, so we finally had to pull her out of her floaty and go eat!


On Sunday, we had a more restful day at the house. After a scrumptious breakfast of homemade waffles and butter pecan apples, Aunt Coco, Olivia, and Mira played hairdresser. Olivia did Coco's hair and Coco did Mira's hair - they both looked like total rock stars!

But, all this fun finally took its toll...Mira crashed while sitting up in my lap (she has to be REALLY tired to do this!). She also slept the entire drive home which she has NEVER done!!

We had so much fun (and so much sugar)!! =)