Fairly Good Week

Lilly has been very excited about her birthday party for weeks and this week it finally happened :)

I asked Lilly if she wanted to help me make fudge for her birthday party. She couldn't wait to make it. She came over Saturday morning instead of Friday night because we did other stuff to prepare for the party on Friday night. She is a very good candy maker. She spread the fudge in the pans like an expert! She didn't even get one drop on her pretty party dress. 

The festivities on Friday consisted of Brendan and I painting the life size cardboard cut outs of, Alice, The Mad Hatter, The Cheshire Cat, Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum!

Kerry also made a whole bunch of decorations and Life size cards from the "March of the Cards" in the movie. She had really cute goodie cups too for the kids to take home, complete with masks or hats from characters in the movie. She had little signs with the drinks that said "drink me" and with the goodies that said "eat me". 

If we had more time we should all just go into the party theme business! We are getting pretty good at it. Between all the Fire Department comedy or hypnotist shows and all of the kids birthdays we are on a roll! We won't talk about how long all of this takes though :)

 Kerry also made cake pops ( at 2:00 a.m.) after she had gone to a party for her future sister in law. Lilly could not be talked out of the cake pops. She wanted them and there was no changing her mind. Kerry is simply an amazing Mom and goes above and beyond the call of duty ALL the time.  Grammy and Papa watched as the kids ate their pops :)

Lilly and Kylie enjoying their cake pops. Kylie had "Chaklette" and Lilly had one shaped like Alice. Lilly also made sure that all of her guests had the special straws that Auntie Phyllis Ann sent for her party. She held on to her straw all night! The kids all had a good time. They played in the bounce house for a long time and ate all the yummy food that Kerry and Brendan made. When the cake was all done it was time to open the gifts.

Of all the gifts Lilly got Kylie loved the Disney socks that Lilly opened and she had to go through each pair and show Kerry each set :) Lilly's Bff's Victoria and Maria watch as she opens her gifts. The rest of the kids were having so much fun they didn't stop :)

After the gifts were all opened everyone got settled in for the Movie premier of Alice in Wonderland! There were a lot of kids and they were all so good during the movie. Lilly's Aunt Melissa even brought hot chocolate for when it got a little chilly. Brendan thought it may get too cold so he brought a giant propane heater which Papa, Grammy, Julie and I sat really close too and it was very comfortable. 

On Sunday Little Miss Vivian turned a week old! She is still cute as a button :)

I commemorated Vivian's week birthday by flying a helicopter! Well really I had it planned before she was even born but it sounds good, right? I took a  helicopter flying lesson at the North Andover Flight Academy located at the Lawrence Airport. It was a beautiful day to fly. I was able to get a video of my flight and a pilot in training t-shirt as well from my co-pilot. It was truly amazing and I want to do it again! I was sad when it was over and we had to go back down. The instructor I had, Chris made you feel totally at ease. He was there in case you had any trouble and let go of his controls completely a few times so you were flying solo! It was so cool!!!

Dad had a pretty good week next Monday he will be able to come off IV antibiotics and switch over to oral ones. He learned the hard way if you sit in the sun for even 5 minutes, uncovered, the antibiotics make you sun sensitive. His legs from the end of his shorts to the top of his socks are a little pink. 

He is still feeling a little tired and sleeps a lot but he is out and about too. He met his friends at the four seasons restaurant last night where his old boy scout leader Freddy Patente still cooks for the "Scouts" who are all grown up with "grandscouts" now :) 

Thanks to everyone who still call, pray, drive, text, e-mail, visit and take Dad out. All of these things no medicine can compare too. Without all the support he gets from family and friends the medicines he takes would never work. The meds cure the physical the family and friends are what cures the person.

Until Next Tuesday,

Laurie