Mimi Visits

Mimi came to visit over Memorial Day weekend for Norah's birthday. We went to the Botanic Gardens, aviator pool, paddle boated at City Park and played a lot of croquet with the new croquet set Mimi gave Norah for her birthday. That croquet set got a lot of use all summer long!

Norah turns 9!

Norah is the biggest Harry Potter fan I know - and lets be honest, isn't everyone a Harry Potter fan? So that really is saying something. As fate would have it, the IMAX at the museum planned a Harry Potterathon around her birthday and was showing one of the films each week. My birthday gift to Norah was tickets to see the first 4 movies. She went to the first two with her best friend, the third movie she saw with a minivan full of friends for her birthday party and the 4th movie she saw with Mimi and her dad on her actual birthday.

Here are her friends showing off their homemade wizard wands at her birthday party
Norah requested an Ice Cream cake from Sweet Cow
She had sparkler candles which was very wizardly

In front of the IMAX - the kids all had Harry Potter Ties and glasses and I gave them Bertie Bott's Jelly beans and chocolate frogs to eat during the movie. Apparently the Bertie Bott's beans really are disgusting. They were a little too authentic. We always celebrate the kids birthdays twice in our family - Here is Norah with her Lemon cake on her actual birthday. The pools had just opened for Memorial Day weekend and we spent the afternoon swimming at Aviator. Norah is just showered off in this picture and getting ready for her late night at the IMAX with Mimi and Bryan. Alice and Freya are in PJs getting ready for bed. It was a pretty perfect birthday.