Robby!

Last weekend we met Robby and Meghan at the Fashion Mall to take Li'l Robby off of their hands for the night.

We did a little shopping. 

The ladies at Tory Burch always give G a tiny apple juice box as she lounges on the velvet sofa while I browse. She's a fan. 

We scooped up our baby after we installed the latest and greatest space age car seat.  Our carseat looks like a picnic basket in comparison.  

Robby enjoyed his bath at our house.  

He is crawling quite rapidly these days, so I did not sit down a lot.

G was in heaven, mostly because he complies with her every request!

They played hide and seek. 

They enjoyed long conversations on the couch

and while they dined.  

He was absolutely perfect for the 24 hours that we had him.

He slept from 7:45-6:45 without a peep.

Yassss!

On Thursday we attended Family Creative Play Night at G's preschool.  

She hung with her bestie, Andrew.

They are kind of like a 80 year old married couple or perhaps brother and sister.  

They don't hesitate to yell at each other.  

Their teacher helped them take an order at their pizza parlor.  

The next day G hopped in the car at car rider line with a basket that she won in the raffle.  

She was jazzed.  

We celebrated with apple cider slushies after school on Friday.  

On Saturday morning we attended my school district's annual running event.

She posed with both the Southport Cardinal

and the Perry Meridian Falcon.

Don't forget the Chickfila cow.  Sister will be peeved, but Ronald McDonald was not there.  

She got a massage at the health fair.  

Trinity ran the 5K and then he did the 1 mile run/walk with us.  Amazingly, Genevieve ran the entire mile with her father and had an official race time of 10 minutes.

We were both shocked.

I hustled behind and finished 45 seconds later.

I'm no runner.

The champion posed with her medal!

Genevieve is 5!

Little Lady Genevieve is not so little anymore.  I cannot handle it.  I sniffle a lot these days about my not so babyish baby.

She turned 5 on the 14th and we kicked off the day with treats for her class.

Then we came home to open presents.  

We took her to the Old Spaghetti Factory, which was a favorite for me when I was little.  

On Saturday we hosted the biggest, the loudest, the craziest Trolls party ever!

After hosting all of her parties at my house, I was dunzo with that for year 5.  I called a local dance studio and with one check I could have those people run the the whole circus for me.  

After much consideration, G decided to invite Andrew.  She wasn't sure since after all, he is a boy.  

Elena is a pal from dance class and also church.  She was not fooling around with that tumbling outfit.

Our theme was tumbling and glamour.

Nailed it!  

The cousins were in attendance.  

Jael started the tumbling.  

Bestie Kate was all smiles for the event!

The kiddies were so excited and literally ran around in circles!

Georgia flashed everyone more than once with those sassy white bike shorts.  

 There was hula hooping.  

 The parachute was a major hit.  

Things got really raucous when I brought out the organic no sugar added juice boxes.

I honestly love them.  

I was pleased with the cake, as it is the most important element of any soiree.  

I went with a rainbow rosette frosting ala Pinterest.  

I Amazoned little trolls to top the cake.  

Our own Princess Poppy was beside herself with joy.  

The face paint was shellacked on for all party goers.  

Abby and Papi were in attendance, and I knew I could count on Abby to dress to my theme.  

It was a great party!  

Lots of Eating

We happened upon Hummingbird Day at the Art Museum a couple of weeks ago.  I had no idea that people can catch and tag hummingbirds.  G was able to hold and release one.  I was pretty amazed.  

We played some miniature golf.  

Her athleticism is inspiring.

G's been on an edamame kick recently.  She's been eating it constantly.  

I attended her first super snack at school last Friday. 

We spent a night down in Newburgh with Sister Katie.  Trinity went to Boston with Rusty last weekend for his birthday.  G and I made it a girls' weekend.

We stopped at The Big Peach.

I met bestie Nicole's new son, Noah.

He is just precious.

We celebrated Trinity's birthday last Sunday.  

G picked the Hibachi Grill for dinner.  

They slurped down soup and tested their balancing on rock skills.

Trinity and I just got back from a weekend of debauchery and fun at Tim and Jamie's lake house.

I managed to take only one memorable picture of me and Showtime (Tyler) wearing hats.  

Because that's what you do at the lake.

Now back to work from a fun Labor Day weekend.