7 Quick Takes TGI Friday

1) 

I have to start with John-Paul's birthday pictures:

Eamon, age 6, made this sign so that he could work on his birthday cards in private.
  My favorite part is "in till I say"

J-P let me pick dinner, and so we had chicken cordon bleu.
Here it is cooking in lots of butter and wine...mmmmm!

My mom gave me a Willowtree Irish Dancer and Phil gave me daffodils from Ireland.
My favorite flowers and my favorite nationality!

John-Paul's requested cake, Lethal Peppermint Chocolate Cake.  We're getting too old for all these candles!

Birthday Buddies!

Eamon and Grandpa share a moment...

...and a sense of humor!

The cake was Maggie-approved.

Teething buddy

Godmother Auntie Maura came over with a gift that lit up his world!

Three generations of men couldn't stop playing with the helicopter!

2)

OK, this is still about John-Paul's 10th birthday.  We had told him (and the rest of the kids) months ago that they could have a "friend" party for this double digit bday OR they could get a Kindle Fire.  John-Paul decided on a friend party.  I even wrote about it in last week's quick takes.  So right before I was going to make out the invitations, I asked him if he was sure he wanted the party and not the Kindle.  He said he wanted the party because one of his friends might give him a Kindle as a gift and then he would have both.  Ummmm, no.  Nobody will give you a Kindle as a birthday gift besides your parents.  So he thought about it again, and decided he wanted the Kindle Fire.  Done.

Happy with his flip flopping decision.

3)

Don't forget to enter the Ddrops Giveaway here.  It ends tomorrow!

4)

I can't believe Pope Benedict is done!  Did you see Jenny's AMAZING pictures from his last Papal Audience?

5)

Xander cracks us up and makes us crazy.  Typical toddler, amiright?

This morning, he was sitting in his high chair saying "Dat! Dat! (Cat)" and then making smooch noises and clicking his tongue to get her to come to him.  Smart kitty knew not to go nowhere near that cat-terrorizing machine.

Here he is sitting in Gammy's lap, and after kissing her, he wanted to kiss Grandpa too, so he leaned over and then waited for Grandpa to lean the rest of the was to plant one on him.  My parents were laughing so hard because Grandpa was having a little trouble reaching Xander, but Xander just stayed there waiting for his kiss like a pretty pretty princess.

6) 

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7)
It's MARCH!  Already!  All of you February whiners can settle down.  Settle down, I said!
:)
I did very well with my February resolution, which was getting to daily Mass 3 times a week.  This March resolution looks a little harder:

No snacking after dinner.  Who made up these resolutions anyway??  Old me was so committed.  New me, well...not so much.

Have a great non-February weekend everybody!