Kayli's Birthday

Our next door neighbors - Ken and Lisa - threw the 1st birthday party for their daughter Kayli today. It was a great day for a party, albeit a little humid, but we all still had a lot of fun. Here's the birthday girl.

Besides the pool (there was the little baby pool, and then a full-size pool), the biggest attraction for the kids was the inflatable bouncy house. Izzy, Zach and Emily were in it all afternoon.

Emily's getting air!

Since it was in the high 80's and with very high humidity, the kids were in the pool a lot to keep cool.

Son feeding father.

Ice cream and cake - of course. Wouldn't be a birthday party without it.

Sharing candy off a candy-necklace.

To finish the day - we almost made a trip to the ER. After a long day, with no nap, the kids had finished a quick dinner, were in their pj's and getting ready to head to bed. Zach has the plastic tube for the toy vaccum and was blowing through it making sounds. He then trips, falls down with the hard plastic tube in his mouth, landing on the tube and jamming it into the roof of his mouth. We quickly pick him up and are greeted with a mouth full of blood. A few swallows and wipes with a washcloth, plus some cuddles and the help of a flashlight, find a 1" semi-circular deep gash in the top of his mouth. Yikes! We call our doctor, and ask expected, you can't suture a mouth - so he gets to eat soft, cool foods (aka ice cream and milkshakes) for the next couple of days while it heals. And if we're able to get him to rinse his mouth with salt-water (yeah, right!), that will help it heal as well. What's funny, is that Melissa's brother did almost the exact same thing as a kid - except it was a pencil through the back of his throat, and the night before we left on vacation. I remember being so jealous that we had to stop every couple hours to buy him a milkshake. =)