The McPherson Chronicles

We invited our friends and family over for an afternoon birthday party before Halloween Trick-or-Treating. It was a fun, hot afternoon of pumpkin painting, eating, cake, costumes and our friends and family. Thank you for everyone who came to celebrate Andrew. It was such a fun day! Pumpkins from Kevin's work contest Auntie Sarah & Baby James Robin got sleepy Donald Trump

October 30th we celebrated Andrew's second birthday! The girls were so excited all week and kept reminding him "It's almost your birthday!" He wasn't really into it mostly because birthday to him just means cake and he didn't see a cake anywhere in the house but also because he wasn't feeling well. He got a fever and slight congestion the day before his birthday. Luckily it cleared up in time to really celebrate at his party on Saturday (more on that in a separate post). We had a good day with a small celebration on his actual birthday. He got to open his presents from us and the girls and loved his toy vacuum, music player, books, coloring books and cars. The girls and I picked up a small cake at the store and we had his favorite turkey taco dinner followed by delicious cake and ice cream. Playing with his birthday balloons Before sisters headed off to school Being sicky requires extra Mama cuddles He LOVED it and promptly "v...