Today is Chance's first birthday! We had a very long and eventful day. Starting early at 9am our power went out. It turns out that the wire which comes form the pole at the street to our house was still a temperary wire that they put up after Katrina and with the bad winds we had over the weekend and then the rain we had yesterday it wasn't holding up so well. The wire was sparking and smoking and the power was going in and out so we turned the power off at the house. It wasn't until after 7pm that we got our power turned back on. 
We were lucky that the weather was mild and we had planned Chance's party early enough in the day that we did not need light also that we had baked the cake the night before. So everything went off without a hitch. My Mom drove up on Wednesday so she was here for the party and then we had four other moms and children over for the party. We just let the kids play while we talked then we had cake. This was truly a fun experience for us all. Chance loved the cake. He picked it up in his little hands and just pushed the whole piece into his mouth until it was all gone and all over him. We had party favors 
and party hats which Chance actually worn for a while. I think he had a good time with the friends from our playgroup. After the party we had to give Chance a bath he was so dirty from the cake. Once he had his bath we opened his birthday presents. He never really got into opening presents. He loved all the things inside but only helped a little to open them. Another issue is he wanted to play with all the presents and then completely lost interest in opening them. I guess that isn't a bad thing though. Hanukkah would be a great thing one present per day plenty of time to play with your new gift before being bothered to open another one. 
So after the sun started to go down we brought out candles and since we are leave Sunday for Portland and my Mom is driving home tomorrow we decided to open our Christmas gifts tonight as well. We ordered in dinner and brought out blankets to stay warm then opened the rest of the presents. Chance got lots of great things as did me and Scott as well as Grammy. It was really kind of neat opening the presents my candle light. The electric man arrived just in time to turn the heat on for sleeping. He replaced the old wire in about 20 minutes and we had power again. Chance was up way past his bed time opening presents and then playing with all of his new toy
s. I think he had a really nice birthday and certainly a memorable one for the rest of us. Thank you to everyone who sent him gifts we appreciate everything.
We were lucky that the weather was mild and we had planned Chance's party early enough in the day that we did not need light also that we had baked the cake the night before. So everything went off without a hitch. My Mom drove up on Wednesday so she was here for the party and then we had four other moms and children over for the party. We just let the kids play while we talked then we had cake. This was truly a fun experience for us all. Chance loved the cake. He picked it up in his little hands and just pushed the whole piece into his mouth until it was all gone and all over him. We had party favors 
and party hats which Chance actually worn for a while. I think he had a good time with the friends from our playgroup. After the party we had to give Chance a bath he was so dirty from the cake. Once he had his bath we opened his birthday presents. He never really got into opening presents. He loved all the things inside but only helped a little to open them. Another issue is he wanted to play with all the presents and then completely lost interest in opening them. I guess that isn't a bad thing though. Hanukkah would be a great thing one present per day plenty of time to play with your new gift before being bothered to open another one. 
So after the sun started to go down we brought out candles and since we are leave Sunday for Portland and my Mom is driving home tomorrow we decided to open our Christmas gifts tonight as well. We ordered in dinner and brought out blankets to stay warm then opened the rest of the presents. Chance got lots of great things as did me and Scott as well as Grammy. It was really kind of neat opening the presents my candle light. The electric man arrived just in time to turn the heat on for sleeping. He replaced the old wire in about 20 minutes and we had power again. Chance was up way past his bed time opening presents and then playing with all of his new toy
s. I think he had a really nice birthday and certainly a memorable one for the rest of us. Thank you to everyone who sent him gifts we appreciate everything.
1 comment:
Yes that definitely was a memorable birthday, but I'm glad everything worked out just the same. Happy Birthday Sweetie Boy, Chance!!!
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