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Happy Birthday, Cousin Benjamin


 On Friday Dana picked Clara up early from daycare as they called me and said she wasn't feeling very well. She ended up spiking a fever at 101 on Friday night. Overnight that night Dana also came down with a sore throat. Cousin Benjamin's birthday party was yesterday, so just Brynn and I made the trip to celebrate with him. Hopefully Dana and Clara will be back to 100% very soon. The nice weather today sure helped, I think.

 Birthday boy Benjamin with his cake. His theme was Berenstain Bears. We love those books at our house, so we thought it was a really fun theme. The cake was so delicious.


Uncle Dana wanted to pick out his gifts for him, so it was even more of a bummer that he wasn't able to make it the party and see Ben open the gifts. We gave him a real wrench set and a tool box.



Well, it did actually get above 70 degrees as forecasted today. It was great, but pretty windy, unfortunately. Clara was born when it was warm out in the summer, but since she was so new, we didn't have her out all that much then, except for a few walks in the stroller. Then it was fall/winter, so today was the most she's really been outdoors. And she didn't really even make it out of the garage because it was so windy and bright for her. I set up her pac-n-play in the garage and she was pretty happy to watch Daddy and Brynn and the cars driving by. Not sure why I had that hat on her at first since she was just in the garage, so I took it off shortly after I took these pics.




Looks like we're going to roll through another year with training wheels here. :-) Dana already tried to see if she would allow him to take them off. Nope.


so sweet

Comments

theweckerlys said…
Cute! That last pic of Brynn is very nice. Clara looks like she was loving being out!
March 15, 2015 at 10:18 PM
carrington said…
So happy to see you two at the party! Clara looks so HAPPY - such a squeezable cutie. Brynnie's legs look SOOO long in the photo of her on the bike! :)
March 15, 2015 at 10:51 PM
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