Abram's First Birthday

Abram's First Birthday
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Abram's woke up and nursed. Then Mary carried him lovingly downstairs. He was met at the foot of the stairs by Abigail singing "Happy Birthday to You"! She was SO excited for it to be Abram's FIRST Birthday. I promised the kids a trip to the park for lunch so I got a lot of mileage in the morning as we geared up for that and Grandma and Pa's visit. Chores were done, extra chores completed, then the fabric came out and we all started making bean bags. Abram loves to carry things around and I had gotten him a $.25 little cooler/bag at a garage sale. The plan was to fill it with bean bags as a birthday gift. I did the cutting, Mary did the first round of sewing the squares together. Then she and I turned them inside right and were joined by Cob and Gail for the filling. Next Cob and Mary sewed the bags shut! We enjoyed the park until I remembered that the timer on the oven read 04 when we left and we had been gone 45 minutes which meant Abram's cake was REALLY well done. We hussled home and I retrieved the crisp spice cake from the torture chamber. Grandma and Pa arrived and the fun really began. Drew got off work early and we all enjoyed cake around 2:00. Then Abram opened all the sweet things the kids had wrapped up for him. Lastly the bean bags which we all enjoyed. I think Pa and Cob enjoyed them the most though. They were playing all sorts of varieties of catch. Naps were next, followed by supper. Then Drew really encouraged us all with a recap of Gary's Sunday Sermon.