Month of Birthdays

We have just completed a month of birthdays! It was a marathon of fun, friends and cake! Who can complain about that!? We had a small birthday supper at Kobe's with Cochrans on the week of Addison and Kieran's (whose birthday is the day after Addison's) birthdays and of course they brought out little cupcakes for the kids and special birthday hats - Addison's didn't fit at all but they worked some magic and made it small enough for her! Super cute!

We had the family dinner for Addison's birthday last Friday night, and had Jeff and Niesha, Grandma, and Aunt Louise over. Addison has not seen Jeff and Niesha very often as Jeff hasn't been feeling the best over the past year, but it took all of about 0.5 seconds for her to decide "Hey, this guy is pretty cool!" and when her favorite Daddy came up to take her from Jeff, she wouldn't go to him! So she hung out with Jeff for a while until her big brothers demanded some play time with Jeff as well. The big bonus room is definitely a place of fun, just like we hoped it would be!

Addison enjoyed opening up her presents - mostly pulling out the tissue paper while her Mother enjoyed putting the bow on her head and making her the "present!" She was oblivious to the fact that she had been "fancied up" and just kept digging on in!

 

Grandma Bobbie made the most awesome butterfly cake for her, and it was delicious!  The Z parents enjoyed eating the rest of the cake throughout the week, stealing a bite here and there!  Shh! :)

Afterwards, the boys dominated Jeff's time by insisting on playing soccer in the bonus room.  Notice the white dots in the picture - it is the flash bouncing off all of the dust particles in the air that still remain from all of the construction - wild!  Hopefully we'll get that settled down soon enough.

Kaleb thought it was pretty cool that Jeff would play air hockey with him, and Jeff was sure to keep the score somewhat even - harder done than said!

 

The final pinnacle of birthday celebrations in the four weekend marathon was Audrey's - she was born at the same hospital on the same day as Addison - Audrey arrived at 8:08AM and Addison was 9:09AM - how fun is that? They had the birthday at My Gym, which is always a fun location.  The picture below is Devin C (Audrey's cousin), Audrey and Addison as they played at My Gym.

 

Phrase of the week: We had some friends over last weekend, and as Kaleb and Amy went out to say our good-byes, Kaleb began to inquire as to the Johnson's new Acura MDX. When he realized it was a new car, he contemplated and said "We need a new car too!" Amy asked him "Why?" and he waved his hand in the air and said "Our cars are too fat" Totally stumped Amy on THAT one - especially when the Volvo is quite a small car!