Pink and Gold Birthday Bash!
Since we had so much help from friends, neighbors, and family during our twins first year of life, we really wanted to celebrate their first birthday by thanking everyone and just having a fun night. I've been on a big gold kick lately and so have lots of gold decorations already on hand. To make things a little easier, I decided to make it a gold and pink party! Plus, do you know how easy it is to decorate with a can of gold spray paint? My family teases me about what I will spray next and turn it gold! In fact, my twins have these sparkly pink bows and then I have the same bows in gold. My 4 year old son, however, didn't know I had 2 gold bows as well. The babies wore the pink bows one day and then the next they wore the gold bows and he turns to me and goes, "Mom, did you really spray the twins bows gold too?" Lol!! Too funny! Guess I've gotten a little carried away lately!!
I ended up running out of time to send announcements in the mail, so I quickly designed something on the computer and just sent out a text/email to everyone that was invited.
I got busy and made as many of the decorations as I could. I searched pinterest for ideas and did my best to copy others' great ideas!! :)
We ended up having about 70 people and probably half were kids!! I borrowed a commercial cotton candy machine from a cousin and so had bags and bags of pink cotton candy made up that everyone could take home as a party favor. It was a huge hit! We ordered lots of food from several restaurants including Texas Roadhouse, Angies, and Cafe Sabor. I bought a full sheet cake and we served raspberry sheet cake and ice cream after dinner.
Lehra- My Care-a-Bear-a You give the biggest bear hugs I've ever seen. Out of all my 5 kids, you are definitely the one who likes to snuggle the most! You are still dealing with laryngomalasia and so haven't been able to laugh yet, but constantly give the most giant smiles. They are always silent smiles, but are so big and happy. I can't wait for the day to hear you laugh!
You are so fast at crawling! You get everywhere you want to go and LOVE when we leave the gate open to go up the stairs. It is a race to see who can get there first. You also absolutely love to crawl over things. No matter what is on the floor, it is like a mission of yours to be able to crawl over it. Super funny to watch!
You are not very picky when it comes to food. You like most everything and are a pretty good eater. Unless you have a cold I can tell it really affects your throat and is hard for you to swallow/breathe because your eating changes quite a bit when you don't feel good.
You are starting to become a little more verbal. It has been a little slower in coming, but I have seen lots of improvements over the past few months.
Lakin- My Lakes You have just started cruising with walking like no other!! I think it was the same week as your birthday in fact that you actually started walking! Way to go...12 months! You love to run/walk everywhere. Still haven't figured out how to stand up in the middle of the room, so you have to crawl over to the couch to stand up, but then away you go! You absolutely love to be chased, tickled and teased. I can tell you will have a spunky personality as you like to joke and kid around all ready at such a young age.
Your feelings are very close to your heart. Any time sister is sad, the littlest thing will make you cry. If Lehra cries too loud, it will make you cry. If someone you don't know very well is too close, you will cry. Oh and we won't even talk about Santa holding you!! Boy, was he scary, or what?!?! Lehra is so laid back and you are much more up tight. Fun to see how different you are.
You are also a pickier eater. If you aren't in the mood to eat something...back out it comes and you WILL NOT eat it. I can be sure that it will be spit back out in my face. Not to happy about that, by the way!!
You have the funnest laugh. You are very easy to make laugh. I can tickle or play with you and you smile and giggle and it makes others smile or giggle too.
Both of you love to listen to stories and love to be held and have all the attention. I can not believe we made it through the hardest year of my life. I'm so grateful to be lucky enough to be a mom of twins!
