Happy Birthday Mikey!!

It's a few weeks late but oh well! Everyone had a great time at the party! So much so that I'm even thinking about booking it for Honor's party too. The good thing about Tiny Toes is that it's one big room so you don't lose track of anyone and all the toys are geared towards 5 and under. It was great that they had the bouncy house out too because the girls had so much fun jumping in there, even Mikey got a chance at it! :)
The cake was a big hit and it tasted good too! It was so easy to decorate, maybe I'll make all their birthday cakes (or maybe not....) There was plenty of cake for everyone and even extra for some drop-ins. Some guy came in with his daughter thinking the place was open for regular play and I told him it was a private party. I let him stay anyway since his daughter was going to get really upset since I turned them away and I even offered them some cake....the more the merrier right?? I'll post pictures once I figure out what the heck Darren did with them....

Can you believe it?

I'm the worse person to remember to update!!! So much for the updating on Fridays huh? Well, let me see if I can remember what we've done between Halloween and now.....

Halloween was alot of fun! Honor was Dora and Mikey was Boots. We went trick or treating in the center of town which is what most people do here in Grafton. The street everyone goes down is called South St. and it's full of old historic colonial houses. The people who live there decorate the houses very festively and there's always something for the parents (like warm cider or wine) at one of the houses.

So I guess the next thing that happened was Iggy's emergency surgery. I had noticed he was trying to pee one night and nothing came out. I knew this was an emergency but was in denial probably so I waited until the next morning to go to the local animal hospital and when they couldn't get a catheter through I had to bring Iggy to Tufts. there they got the catheter in but found that he had a tear in his urethra that needed to be fixed. Long story short I ended taking him back to the local animal hospital where he had surgery to repair the tear and essentially was made into a female cat since they rerouted the urethra to go through the pelvis and that makes it shorter and less likely to collect the crystals that caused the problem in the first place. So we can say now that Iggy's had a sex change! :)

Thanksgiving was nice, we went to Aunt Jackie and Uncle Skip's condo in Norton. There was lots and lots of good food as usual and Honor and Mikey loved playing with their cousin Matt. The day before Thanksgiving was pretty eventful though....Chris proposed to his girlfriend Megan! We knew this was coming but it's exciting that now Honor and Mikey can call her Aunt Megan. :) Honor and I are also excited about being in the wedding and hopefully this time Honor will actually drop the flower petals instead of running up the isle and them dumping them out later!

Last weekend we went to Sutton Chain of Lights and Grafton Celebrates the Holidays. Both events consist of businesses in the area opening their doors and having some sort of family friendly thing going on such as pony rides, face painting, visits with Santa, cookie decorating, etc. So in Sutton we went to Whittier Farms (this is where our milk comes from) and we went on a hay ride around the farm and saw all the nice cows that give us their milk. :) Then in Grafton, Honor went to see Santa (who she wasn't afraid of this time!!) and got her face painted. We all went for a hay ride around the Community Barn and then went to the center of town for the tree lighting.

Now we're gearing up for Mikey's birthday....I still can't believe it's been a year already!! When we were doing the "Frosty Stops" during Grafton Celebrates the Holidays I was thinking how I was sooo very pregnant with Mikey last year when we did this. It's going to be great to see all the kids having fun playing at Tiny Toes. I'm also excited to make Mikey's cake, it's going to be so cute! I'll post a picture when it's done.