Birthday Parties

We had 2 birthday parties to attend this week.  The first was for Clara's friend, Jared.  They were able to go to Jump around the Town, and Clara actually played the whole time too!

 The day after this birthday party, Clara came down with a fever.  So I called to tell her preschool teacher that she wasn't going to come.  Turns out, 3 of the 5 kids were sick (and all attended the birthday party!)
Clara woke up that morning and I went to fix her breakfast as usual.  She couldn't decide on which cereal she wanted, and ended up choosing none.  30 seconds later, I turned around and found her like this:

So we spent the rest of the day like this:

Then on Friday, we went to a birthday party for 2 of my nephews.

While we were there, Clara became attached to this one balloon that didn't quite get blown up correctly.  She kept talking about how it looked like an alien and when we got it home, she would draw an alien face on it and it would be her best alien friend.  Well, at one point in the evening the balloon popped.  Clara started sobbing; I figured it was because it was loud and scared her.  But when she could finally talk, she said, "That was my best friend!"

So we spent the rest of the evening trying to find just the right balloon that could become her "best friend."  Glad we finally found one that would work!