Busy July

Wow I have had a busy July.

Caleb had his birthday. He had a great birthday party, but I have no pictures :(

We had it the Thursday before his birthday in the middle of the day. I went with the Cars theme. You know the movie Cars. He loooooves that movie. He can quote almost the whole movie now. (not on command mind you) He was quite excited to have all his little friends over. The night before low and behold he tells mommy that his ear is hurting. So the morning of his party my DH brings him to the DR to check him out. Both tubes have popped out and his right ear is infected. Thank you DH. And they got home before the party started. Instead of a traditional birthday cake I did cupcakes. I (tried) to make a big wheel and several smaller wheels. Well that meant black icing. I don't know if I will ever do black icing again. But it look cool. Again no pictures. DH had a job to go to after dropping off Caleb, that left me in charge of mingle. We had a diverse group of people. We invited neighborhood kids, Mt Bethal MOPS kids and Cumberland MOPS kids. Oh and of coarse their mommies or daddies. Nana was able to make it too. She was a big help with some behind the scenes stuff. After the last kid left, Caleb with the cutest pouty face ask me, "Where are all my friends?" Well I replied in typical mom fashion, "They all went home to take naps just like we are going to do now." It sort of worked. After the nap I started taking down the decorations. Well Caleb ask me not to take his party down. He was so cute and earnest I went ahead left up the balloons and some other noticeable decorations.

The next couple of weeks after his party Caleb and camped out in the basement of our church, Cumberland Community Church. I was in charge of decor for VBS. There was quite a few things that needed to be painted. Thanks to the many peps that took stuff home to cut out and paint. It was huge. Well.... Again I don't photos. Partly because I was not there for set up and the week of VBS. I was at the beach. Hopefully someone took some photos of it.

Well the beach trip I did take photos. Quite a few actually. Every year Patrick's (DH) family goes to North Lichfield beach. It is nearish to Mrytle Beach. Caleb took pretty well to beach life. He didn't freak out about the sand, yeah! (that is huge by the way) And he went into the ocean. Now when we first got there was a weather system some where close and the waves were quite choppy. Caleb really didn't like that. After the weather system had passed. It took quite some doing to get Caleb out in the water again. He like the small waves. But does not like the big ones. We did do another "party" for Caleb at the beach. It was just him and his cousins Payton and Preston.

Some other activities in between was Anne Schultz's baby shower. Quite lovely.

We also often went to the local pool.