7-17-2009

My baby is 6 years old! Where does the time go?

We were talking about when she was born (and exactly when she would turn 6 which Caroline found very important). When we told her she was born at night (8:52 to be exact) she got all excited and replied, "That means I am nocturnal." Is that why she stays up reading in bed? So, she told everyone that called to wish her a happy birthday that she was not 6 yet and she would not be 6 until after the party because she was nocturnal. There was lots of explaining from mom after those calls. We were up late swimming with the twins and C kept asking what time it was. We began giving her the countdown and finally she was actually 6 years old. She did a cannonball off the dock to celebrate.



The Pirate Party



When we began planning a party I gave her the Oriental Trading Catalog and told her to find things she liked. Over four weeks we narrowed it down to a Girly Pirate themed party at our house. (not a private party as so many of our neighbors thought Caroline was telling them.) So last night we had an old fashioned, come to our house to play and have dinner, party.
The kids had a blast checking the crab lines (OK maybe that never happened at a party I attended as a kid) and digging through the bait bucket to see what cousin John had caught in his cast net. They did some girly crafts and chased each other with live shrimp. They ate hot dogs and attacked a pinata.

And of course they ate cake (yep, I made it myself). In the days of outsourcing the entire event to an event planner or destination, this was really a fun low key party. All planned by Caroline.
That is John and Adelyn (my twin niece and nephew) behind Caroline and the cake. They came up to spend the weekend with us and help celebrate. And this is the unexpected guest- a juvenile Roseate Spoonbill. Caroline would want me to add that this is my favorite bird. He landed on the neighbor's dock in the middle of the party. I guess he wanted to see what John was catching or maybe get in on the cake.