happy birthday!

Although Leo's birthday is today, the party was yesterday because it's a lot easier to coordinate parties around weekends. In off-loading pictures from the camera, I've also discovered that it's been a really long time since that happened, and thus a long time since the Flickr stream was updated. By the time you read this, that should have been remedied.

Planning for the party started nearly a month ago, with a desire for a robot theming (started probably by the request from the paci fairy a month or two ago). Kirstin found some inexpensive invitations, buttons, and stickers from a site new to us called Zazzle, and we put together a "pin the antenna on the robot" game. I have a colleague who does cakes as a side business, and she quoted us an extremely reasonable price for the number that we thought we might need to serve. (We ended up with half as many as we thought we'd have, so we've got leftovers.) We invited Mason, Josh (whose dad works with me), and four friends from school, three of whom came.

Rather than wait until after dinner tonight, we let him open presents yesterday morning. He got a couple sets of winter PJs, a couple of books, and a set of Cars cars. Most of his grandparents contributed toward the purchase of a two-wheeled bike, which we're going to wait until spring to get because the weather is about to get too icky to ride bikes in much. We know where we'll get it (it's the same place as we got his helmet).




This week is conferences for me, and my parents are arriving on Friday and leaving Saturday morning to go visit my niece for her birthday on Saturday. We've otherwise been really, really busy, and I'm really, really tired, so I'll let the picture speak for the rest of yesterday.