Juner's birthday party- Henry.

We celebrated Juner's birthday yesterday with a party! We'd hoped for nice weather for an outdoor party, but a nasty storm has been in North Carolina since Thursday and it's been cold and sleeting for 3 days.

Miss Becky helped June open a present- a book about monkeys!

Juner also got some very cute summer clothes to wear- if it would only get warm! Thanks for the great presents everybody!

June and Audrey played on the floor.

And the big kids got to the important task at hand- decorating their cupcakes.

TJ, Henry, and Gracie did a great job, but were so busy having fun, most of the cupcakes were left behind (after the frosting was licked off, of course).

Since most of our parties in Wisconsin usually involved beer and cheese, we wanted our first
North Carolina party to feel authentic. So mama bought some Cheerwine for everyone to drink (it's a local cherry pop- excuse me- soda). Mister Andy said that he heard you were supposed to drink it with peanuts floating in it. The peanuts helped mellow the super sweetness of it, but at the end of the party, most of us decided we'd stick to Lexington barbeque if we wanted to act local.

Here's the big birthday moment. Don't worry- June didn't touch the candle.

And here's June inhaling her cake.

June by now is an old pro at cake eating and had her birthday cupcake demolished in no time.

She ate the first one so fast, papa gave her another.

And in the end, the only crumbs left were on her bloomers (which washed up well, despite the pink frosting that was ground in).

After a quick bath in the sink, June was ready to rejoin the party.

June and Audrey spent the rest of the afternoon feeding each other apple slices.
Mama was worried that things might got out of hand in our little house, but was pleasantly surprised that the three older kids spent most of their time playing quietly in the front room. She says the only one who was crazy was me. But I've been stuck in this house wince Thursday, hopped up on potty training and pink lemonade. What else could I do but get excited?

After the party, I helped clean up by eating the leftover fruit. Every piece got a clean toothpick and mama found out way too late that every dirty toothpick went right back into the clean toothpick pile.