Gasp!

You mean....two posts within 24 hours of each other? How could that be?

Well, Richie's Birthday party pictures just could not wait! We had a small gathering of Richie's play group plus some family friends over. We got a cupcake pull-apart cake from a shop around the corner. Although we were expecting Richie was rage after the chocolate, he (and I) preferred the "Sinnabon."


Here you can see Amy with her newest addition. Richie looks like he is running away from Dan's legs. But, I think he was just running.


In the middle and two the right are our neighbors (C.J. and Patricia) who are expecting in about 4 months. We thought the party would get them warmed up for their future! On the left edge is Dan...one of Richie's babysitters, who also happens to be a private practice pediatrician. So is his spouse, who is Richie's other babysitters. No, we do not worry for Richie when we go out without him.


And! There's the other doctor-spouse/babysitter, Naomi. Next to her is Christopher (or Kyle as I prefer since their other son is Kenny). That's Kiki's youngest son who is 2.5 years old and the person from whom we used to get all of Richie's clothes. Unfortunately, Richie out grew Kyle (I mean Topher), and clothes have started flowing in reverse.


We'll start with the stray videos which are too cute to pass-up. (GG, from here on-down, these are all movies.)

As you saw in the last post, Richie is back in Music Together. Each session they give you a CD full of folksie music that is also played in class. We have really taken to the new CD and there is a song called "Driving in the car." Which Richie really likes! He'll go sit on his green Train engine (Seen in the movie below) and drive around the room. There's a part of the song where the lyrics go, "Sleep. Sleep. Sleeping in the car. Sleeping in the car all day." And, the movie shows you what he dose whenever he hears that part of the song!


We had another snowfall/ice storm on the 22nd of last month. Richie has really started getting into sledding, so we took him out for some sledding in the back driveway.


Such a cute smile! It reminds me of his cousin Sammy's smile.


Okay, finally, here are some clips from Richie's birthday party!


He had no interest in his cake. At least initially...


But he did eventually warm up to the idea!