So my oldest baby was born 2 days after Christams 2003… and barely 2 days… he was born at 12:48 in the morning on the 27th. Talk about an amazing Christmas gift! Buuut for little Trey it’s not always amazing. Granted, we have great family that go out of their way to make sure Christmas and Birthday stuff are very separate… but it does all happen at once and by the time the holidays are over, he’s on gift overload. It all kind-of loses its luster I think. Plus, birthday parties are really hard to pull off during the holidays… everyone’s on vacation, everyone’s busy… it’s tough.
So this year we decided to throw him a 1/2 birthday party. No presents. Just a fun-filled afternoon with lots of ice-cream and one giant water gun fight.
This might turn into an annual event… Trey’s 1/2 Birthday ice-cream party/water-gun fight… whattya think?
Here are a few pics:
We bought entirely too many toppings and way too much ice-cream. Seriously. We’ll be eating this stuff for months. Which is just grand for my waistline.
Lots of kids… lots of running… lots of me being paranoid that my super-boy-all-boy-hyper-insane-no-girl-calming-influenced family would be terrifying to Trey’s friends (and their parents). I think maybe it was okay… right?… right?
* crickets *
Annyway…
The baby did so well! He was off playing with the big kids, running around with them… after them… under them… hahaha. At one point a few of them had him cornered against the fence and Trey ran over and came to his rescue… “Doon’t shoot my BROOTHER!!!” Awww. It’s not like they were hurting him or anything… in fact Noah was just sitting there taking it… getting shot with the water in his cute little chubby belly… but there’s something about watching your kids stand up for each other. There’s that piece of you that always needs to reassurance that they’ll take care of each other… and this made me smile.
It was all smiiles for the most part though. 
DJ, my first child I’m raising, was the supreme instigator… with his FATHER coming in a close second… evil, those two….
Anyway, just a few. I have lots more to blog from this weekend…
Stay tuned!
~ K
