Audrey Turns Nine

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Carol pulled off another great birthday party at home for Audrey's ninth birthday. This year the theme was games. There was a game where kids had to move M&Ms from one bowl to another using a straw. A game based on Battleship but using Hershey kisses and hugs and when you guess a location you get that piece of candy. Carol made a giant Tic Tac Toe board out of felt. They played "Quack", where a player is blindfolded in the center of a circle and then has to guess a person's identity just from hearing that person say "quack." Plus maybe another game or two I can't remember.

Carol also made and decorated the cake. Audrey chose the design. It started as a chess board in honor of Audrey recently learning the game. Then instead of chess pieces on the board it turned into chess and music, in honor of Audrey's love for singing around the house and trying to learn the cello.

Audrey invited a bunch of friends from school. It's our practice that the non-birthday girl gets to invite one guest so a friend of Charlotte joined in. It was a cacophony of giggles and screams for two and a half hours but quite fun. Carol also served dinner in there somewhere between games, cake and presents.

It is taking a while for it to sink in that we have a nine year old. That's halfway to adulthood! I feel so far behind on what I want to teach her! Not to mention fixing all the stuff I've not done as well as I'd like.

C'est la vie.

All we can do is try harder.