Elise got to spend her 7th birthday with her cousins! We had such a fun day!
We started the day with French Toast made by Aunt Susanne – why I have a picture of Becca and not Elise on her birthday, I do not know. I also don’t have pictures of the decorations! Mike & Susanne even bought streamers and balloons and we decorated their house after the kids went to bed the night before her birthday. You can see a few streamers behind Becca’s head there…
The cousins had a lot of fun together reading jokes from joke books and telling the good ones to the adults. I love how they all get along, even with the age range.
And of course there was lots of cuddling with the new niece and then swimming at their friends’ pool I love these pictures – what joy on their faces…plus hilarious dance moves from my nephew while he was waiting to catch a ball jumping into the pool…
In the evening we headed to Farrell’s Old-Fashioned Ice Cream Parlor as a treat for Elise’s birthday dinner and dessert. They make a HUGE deal out of birthdays there…a free sundae and they sing and sometimes dance for the birthday person, or even make the birthday person dance. Funny…except that Elise was horrified at the prospect. She DID NOT want them to sing to her and she was so upset she could hardly enjoy herself, even after we promised to ask the waitress not to sing. Eventually she warmed up and had a good time, and the rest of us enjoyed the fun atmosphere and good food and delicious ice cream! We did convince her to let US as a family sing the Happy Birthday song when she got her sundae and she even wore a paper hat made from the coloring pages!
