Hey, remember when it was July? What happened?!
I remember as a kid I’d try to squeeze in the last days of freedom before the looming school year began, but now everything just runs together. #lifeasaparent
On the topic of kids, we brought Avery to her first party this past Saturday for our neighbor’s little girl who turned 1. They have an older girl who just turned 4 and were celebrating that day too. For the older kids (and adults), an awesome bounce house was setup and getting a lot of use.
I can’t wait to get in a bounce house with Avery, but we decided to give the swing set a try. This was Avery’s first time in a swing, and as you can see in this video, I’d say she enjoyed!
The one year old party scene was not as “bounce-housey” with only Avery and another baby from the neighborhood who will be 1 next weekend, but they were all adorable and fun to watch nonetheless. I can see these three getting into trouble years from now.
Avery’s attempt to keep cool in front of the older babies was thwarted when the sight of a camera got her excited. The birthday girl is in the middle, and the soon-to-be birthday girl is on the right.
We are grateful to have such good neighbors around us, and everyone had a great time at the party. Since the birthday girl is walking on her own now, there were a couple “walker” toys that have become obsolete in their house. Avery, on the other hand, took to liking one the sit-to-stand one, so our gracious neighbors sent us home with that and another walker!
Not too bad. Go to a party for someone, and leave with their stuff; that’s a win in my book! The rest of the weekend was spent with Avery effortlessly pulling herself up on everything and enjoying the new toys. I’ve thanked the already, but I want to thank our neighbors again for being so kind and letting us use these while Avery learns to walk.
I could go on, but I’ll let the pictures of Avery playing on her “new” walkers do the talking.
And here’s a video of her smiling proudly as she stands “on her own”.
How was your weekend?
Have you ever attended someones birthday party and left with awesome gifts for yourself….or kid?
Have a great week!
She is adorable. She looks like she loves that walker. If the birthday girl is walking already, I am sure they want someone who can get use out of them to use it. I gave out Bumbo seats, everything
Yep, they were more than happy to let us use the walkers. One seems to constantly make a noise no matter if you’re around it or not though, maybe they wanted to get rid of it!!
But Avery’s doing great with them and we think she’ll figure out how to walk soon. Bumbo seats would be a great thing too! Thank you for the compliments and for reading!!
Looks like Avery had an awesome time (and oh wow, does she seem to love the camera!)!
She definitely enjoyed it, and yes, she’s far from camera shy! Unless, of course, she’s doing something for the first time and we go to get the camera…..then she stops. Womp Womp
Looks like Avery loves those toys – definitely a real winner to take them back with you! 🙂
It’s quite handy sometimes to get these hand-me-downs, but I must admit I’m at the point now when I find it a real pain because we get way too much stuff and it’s too awkward to say no. What makes it worse is now the in-laws have joined in the party and give us all their neighbours stuff…most of which is either unsuitable (wrong age bracket), deteriorated beyond repair, or simply just crap. We’ve become the junk yard 🙁
Uh oh, we haven’t run into that problem yet, but I’ll consider myself warned now! Although, our house is no mansion and just bringing these two toys back with us make it feel just a little smaller now.
I hope you’re able to find a way to remove the junk/clutter and not hurt any feelings. Thanks for the comments, Paul!