Happy Birthday Téa

My, my how time flies. I can't believe it's May. And I can't believe my oldest turned 7 today. We tried really hard to make it super special since I'm going for the meanest-mother-in-the-world award and made a new rule about birthday parties. The new rule: parties on even numbered birthdays only. And I have to say I must have been truly inspired to make this rule months ago since there is no way I could handle throwing a big bash for Téa with the whole knee thing going on. I'm recovering very well, but not that well. Not well enough to fill my home with a dozen crazy, emotional seven year-old girls. No thank you! Since there wasn't going to be a friend birthday party I knew I had to step it up a notch. How did I do that? I went all out and bought...a balloon. With helium. Yup, I'm a pretty cool mom. Well, Mark actually went out last night to purchase said balloon. As a side note, Walmart charges .50 cents to fill up one mylar balloon. Are you kidding? Moving on...

At 7 a.m. Téa woke up to this


See the cool balloon? (Please ignore the paint splotches. My walls are sick. I'm hoping they get better soon.)

Then we had her favorite breakfast, Dutch Babies (or German Pancakes, which ever you prefer). Téa was able to take her new razor scooter, with streamers and a bell, for a quick test drive outside before school and she loved it. Now if the darn wind would just stop maybe she could ride it more. We all helped make treat bags for her school class and I delivered them, with Calista's help, right after lunch. She was so happy to see me show up with a bag of goodies for all her friends. Mark's parents arrived at the house just as Téa walked in the door from school, which was a great surprise. Then it was off to Cafe Rio for dinner and a quick stop at Coldstone on the way home to pick up the cake.




As we tucked Téa in bed tonight she whispered over and over to me that this was the best birthday ever.

I rule! Oh, I mean, We rule! It was a group effort after all.

Happy Birthday Squirt!