Thing One and Thing Two - and Three :) Happy August!

I need happy thoughts today, and this post is one in a line of a few that are overdue, so I figured I would take a break and get a couple posted! There haven't been too many moments to spare around here lately, so when you are ordered to take one, you probably should? ;) Well, just for a few minutes at least…
August will forever be a crazy month at our house! Steve and I were married on the 10th. Our twin daughters, Hannah and Eden, were born on the 13th. Delia was born on the 28th. If we left it at that, we could be busy I suppose. We also wanted to do some sort special thing just for Hannah. This year, we had decided we could do a joint birthday party since the girls are so young (I had such a hard time doing that!), but that was all the more reason for us to do a separate thing for a memorial of sorts. Then, being racked with guilt over their birthdays being event-less, I made Eden and Hannah a cake anyway and we spent the day at the lake swimming and letting Eden call the shots. Delia's day came two weeks later, though she wasn't feeling well, so there was more napping involved and less cake since she had residual cupcakes leading up to her big day and I was still feeling like a bad parent over how much frosting she consumed from her smash cake! At any rate, the crazed month of August has come and gone and it was a pretty big success. I haven't yet gotten a free minute to take down the remaining banners, but the house still feels festive. I'm just not inviting anyone over yet so I don't need to feel embarrassed ;)   (and excuse the jumbled pics, my foggy head isn't ready to create collages or organize them better right now. Maybe later!)

 

Three Stooges.

Our first event was the actual twins' actual birthday. (I say that because people always think Eden and Delia are twins and we are constantly having to explain that they aren't). So, on the 13th, we woke Eden with the traditional candle-lit breakfast (technically, she was already awake, but she was still in her bed - we know not to wake babies!) and we all sang happy birthday to her. We started this tradition when Josiah turned one and it is so fun. Especially with Josiah - whom we actually do wake up for daycare or school, and he is so caught off guard by it, the videos are hilarious! Eden LOVED this and Delia giggled from her crib too. After breakfast we let her open a little present and then spent the day at the lake swimming and letting Eden be the boss, dictating what we should do (who am I kidding - this girl thinks she runs the show all the time!). It was a really fun day! We capped it off with her fish cake - per her request, she wanted a "geen and pink" cake, and Steve decided it should be like the shape of a goldfish cracker. I made an executive decision not to actually carve it in the shape of a fish and just piped them on instead. She loved it though.
And at dusk, we went out on a pontoon with my parents and my sister's family and in the middle of the lake where Hannah's ashes were sprinkled, we sent these up. It was so beautiful. Eden kept shouting at the "full moons!" You could see them for miles. We only dropped two onto the water, but they looked pretty burning their too - so it wasn't a loss at all. Definitely doing this again next year.

I LOVED these lanterns. This was just plain amazing.

THEN came the joint party for the girls. It took some arm twisting, but I was able to be convinced to do a combined party this year. I don't know, for me, birthdays are a big deal. I love to make a huge deal out of my kids, and go crazy over birthdays - and I think especially for the girls its going to be important to keep them separate because it would be so easy to just "lump them together" because the dates are so close together. (If you have a similar situation throw some thoughts at me, I'm curious!) At any rate, this was fun and it turned out well, chaos and all!

 I LOVED the Dr. Seuss theme! I could have gone [even more] crazy with this theme! It was just plain fun. And it just seemed to fit. Our girls were turning 2 and 1 and people always thought they were twins, so we made Thing One and Thing Two shirts, and there you go! While my intention was to go hog wild with the food and label everything with Seuss-related names, life got in the way. Our red fish/blue fish were obvious. Our oodles of noodles, just plain noodles.

 I did, however, make red and white layered cupcakes resembling cat and the hat (they happen to be on the backside of this stand, blast!), and then green eggs and ham. I intended to cover my chocolate cupcakes with blue cotton candy thing hair, but I am a cotton candy machine nin-com-poop, and I could not figure it out, even with a good tutor. SO, they were just yummy chocolate. Which I like better, because I don't like cotton candy, but it doesn't look seuss-ish. The kids didn't know either way :) The adults had some delectable chocolate cake. For some reason they shy away from green food.

Hannah's Balloons

 And last, but certainly not least! Delia's actual birthday! Delia flipped out about her good morning greeting! It was just hilarious! I am so glad we capture these on video each year. After she scarfed down three pumpkin chocolate chip muffins (she is serious about good food!), we opened her little gifts. (We decided a joint party called for a joint gift and found a great deal on a play kitchen. It has since taken over our lives. But they love it so we are coming to terms. Sort of.) You can see that Eden was a diva during present time, not enjoying that these were not her presents! Too funny. I loved that Delia made a funny face while holding a lemon. Ironic, since she has no idea what it was. And she was WAY excited about the book. Even though she has yet to sit still for an entire story. Ever. Thought that was hilarious too. This girl cracks me up at least once every couple of minutes.