Birthdays!

We celebrated the all the April birthdays in my family on April 11th. The family party turned out to be pretty crazy because a little before dinner my dad's nose started bleeding. It kept bleeding for a couple hours, so he went to a care center. Consequently, he was gone for most of the party, as were other family members who were taking him to the care center or otherwise helping him. Thus a lot of our time was spent being concerned about my dad.

Nate made a nice cake for the party though.

And Austin got lots of exciting gifts, like this stuffed Lightning McQueen from his grandparents.

Austin also received a cool handmade sock monkey from his Aunt Katie. When it is pushed, it plays "Happy Birthday" Actually, he didn't get this at the original birthday party; it came late. Austin loves it!

Since we were celebrating my mom's birthday too, I made her a wooden basket.

We had another party at home for Austin on his actual birthday. He got to have his choice of dinner (macaroni and cheese) and cake.

Then he got to open another round of gifts from his parents.

His favorite was a set of toy vehicles I made for him. Some of them even had peg people that could sit inside, and the trucks had round pieces that could be loaded and unloaded.

His main gift was a new bed. So, now Austin has graduated from his toddler bed to a twin sized bed. I don't know how excited he really was about the bed, but he does really like the Thomas the Train themed sheets, bed spread, and pillow.