There is no other title that is more appropriate than this one. On Saturday, October 18th, Brittain attended Ava Parker’s 2nd birthday party…and Mimi and I tagged along. The funny thing is, when I found out Dan was scheduled to work, I invited Mimi along but made sure to tell her that if she couldn’t come for some reason, not to worry about it because I would be completely fine watching Brittain and also taking some pictures. This turned out to be a huge joke, of course, because in the end it took both Mimi and myself performing a balancing act. By the time we left that afternoon all three of us were completely exhausted.
The main entertainment for the party (aside from Ava, of course) was one of those big bouncy castle things. Brittain’s first experience with one of these was at Emma-Kate’s birthday party and she didn’t really start having fun at her party until about 5 minutes before we left. I was interested to see how this was going to go. I was thrilled that she immediately started having fun. In fact, when everyone else was gathered around with Ava as she opened gifts, Brittain was still jumping in the castle – by herself. The Parkers rented the castle for the whole weekend, so we even got to go back on Sunday and jump some more. I thought Brittain was going to cry when the castle had to be taken away. In fact, as I was working on this blog post tonight and she saw the castle, she said, “There’s the castle! Can we go jump in it?” Ugh…why does she make me want to go out and buy her one of those things right now?!
We were so excited to be a part of another one of Ava’s birthdays. We look forward to many, many more.
