...but we celebrated her birthday this weekend anyway! I know we are two weeks early, but we wanted to celebrate while we were still out here. Friday, J leaves for Georgia, and Zuri and I follow the next Wednesday! It is coming up so quickly!
This weekend has been a crazy one. J's parents came up Saturday with the truck and we got everything out of our apartment that is too big to fit in our car, which means that for the next week we are sleeping on an air mattress and without all our furniture! We are still in the midst of packing so our apartment is a complete disaster.
Saturday we also celebrated Zuri's 2nd birthday! Wow, how the time flies. It is hard to believe that it has been two years (okay,
almost) already. We had the party at Nielsen's Grove park (ah, sweet memories). The day turned out to be very nice, with some light clouds rolling in later in the afternoon (a stark contrast to the last party we had there).
Before (and after) the party, we were moving. Here is a shot of Zuri and Adilynn just before we went over to the park.
The next few pictures are of the kids playing while we were waiting for everyone to show up.
Adilynn, Zuri, and McKenzie playing.
Zuri not only loves to slide down slides, but she also loves walking up them as well! Here she is with Perla.
Zuri and McKenzie sliding down the twisty slide together.
Zuri and McKenzie playing
Jennifer and Perla pushing Zuri on the swing--I think the swing is still Zuri's favorite!
Adilynn on the swing. She wouldn't smile for the camera.
My mom made the cake for Zuri--a princess castle! So cute--and so yummy too! Zuri was more interested in touching the candles than blowing them out--I had to do the honors quickly before she burned herself!
Enjoying cake and ice cream!
Opening presents!
At the end the kids all had a water fight with the squirt guns. Zuri's favorite part was drinking the water from the squirt gun! Funny kid.
On the way home from the party...she didn't want to leave and threw a fit. She also didn't get a nap at all so she was extra tired. "It's my party, and I will be ornery if I want to." This was actually a better look than the one she had originally. I was laughing so hard while trying to get my camera to get the picture that she perked up a bit trying to figure out what was so funny.
When we got home, the guys wanted to get the last load done and the ice cream truck came around! Zuri had her first experience with the ice cream truck--and she loved it! She got an orange creamsicle--her favorite flavor. Adilynn got a Dora ice cream.
You would think after all the excitement of the day that Zuri would crash when everyone left--not so! She wanted to race around with her balloons...
...and drink out of her new sippy cup! If you look at her right hand, you will see she has a sock on it. For whatever reason, she loves putting socks on her hands! She is also really interested in shoes lately. She can't get enough of taking them on and off and racing around with one shoe! It is really entertaining to watch.
Abby loves putting socks on her hands too. I will go in and check on her during her nap and she will be asleep with both hands covered with socks. It's so cute! We really need to get together this summer. We are about 3 hours away, but that is nothing when it comes to visiting family/friends for us nowadays. We will let you guys get settled in and then we need to figure out a time when we can come up and visit. I'm sure our girls will have tons of fun together!! Good luck with the moving!
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