We just returned from a few days at Kure Beach, NC to celebrate my 40th birthday. Last year when we were celebrating my 39th birthday the hospital, I told Eric we would need to celebrate my next birthday big. He asked what I wanted to do, and I said, rent a beach house and have all of our friends come and stay with us.
We found the beach house and invited everyone. We had a total of 18 people coming so we found a HUGE house (that was a great deal being off-season). t was us, Eric's parents, Adam, Noah, and Chase (Rachel & Amy were home sick, boooo!), Pam, John and Kathryn, Ed and Kristen, Eric's aunts Joann and Janet, and my friend Shelley from work. Eric and Pam conspired to put together an "All About Mary" cake which was amazing. Everyone arrived Saturday and the weather was great. Some folks left on Sunday, some on Monday, some on Tuesday and our final guests left on Wednesday. Tyler got to play in the sand and seemed to enjoy it. Gifts were amazing - so many of my favorites in so many different ways. It was a GREAT weekend and I am so lucky to have such great friends and family to celebrate with.
Funny story: Pam, John and Kathryn flew into Raleigh Friday night and then followed us out to the beach Saturday morning in their rented Chevy Tahoe. We were leading and Eric used the windshield washer fluid to clean the front window. Pam sent a text laughing about the "shower" they got behind us...so Eric does it again, hee hee hee. Next thing you know John is speeding up and gets in front of us, cleans his windows and sprays us, then goes back to following us. We were cracking up!
We lost my car keys for a short time, and had to ask Ed & Kristen to go by and get our spares overnighted to us. They were so awesome to help us out. Turns out we found the keys but still, such great friends.
Tuesday night it was just Eric, me, Tyler, Joann and Janet left at the house, and they offered to take us out to dinner. We went to Jack Mackerels. Eric's meal had french fries and Tyler kept reaching for them so we gave him one -- AND HE ATE IT!! We were amazed!!
He also is really getting into standing up and walking (using a walking toy). He had a great time being entertained by everyone.
Next up:
- feeding therapy appt tomorrow at UNC
- first birthday party on Saturday!
- working on transitioning to the Toddler room at daycare - we met with the owner & director to discuss this
