Katherine celebrated her 2nd Birthday yesterday. It was a very nice day, and a fun celebration. Good food (thanks, Margie!), good company (thanks, Testermans!), good gifts (thanks, friends and family), and, for a two-year-old, good behavior (thanks, Katherine!).<\/p>\n
Katherine showed an amazing interest in opening gifts, vs. simply playing with stuff already out. She also was very good about handing off pieces of wrapping paper to one person, boxes to another, and contents to a third.<\/p>\n
Dizzy and Jake added their own bit of chaos-bringing to the festivities.<\/p>\n
After Kitten was down and while the fajitas were digesting, we played Balderdash and drank port. It doesn’t get much better than that.<\/p>\n
Pictures to follow sometime later this week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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