Penguin Party

What other kind of party could it have been besides a Penguin Party?  Thanks to Pinterest there are a million penguin ideas so we borrowed a few.   

Igloo cheese ball

Stuffed olive penguins

 My little helper did such a good job gluing penguins!  She got to use a glue stick for the first time and LOVED it.

There were lots of penguin balloons but we didn't get a good picture. 

 

 We were very lucky that both my family and Matt's were able to come.  Even Cousin Sheri was there all the way from California! 

Nana and James

Greatest Grandad and Meredith

Sheri and James

Aunt Erin and Jackson

 Grammy Pammy made Jackson a jon jon with a penguin on it.  He loved all of his presents, but his favorites are the little tryke from Great Grandma and Grandpa Unger and the blocks.   

 

Happy birthday, Jacka! 

 The next day we all played in the leaves in the backyard. They don't exactly have leaves in Florida so Meredith thought it was fabulous.  The two of them were impossible to get to sit still. 

We are blessed to have two families that would come so far just for a one year old's birthday party.  When he looks back at these pictures years from now he will have no question how much each and every one of them loves him! 

Happy Penguinween

 Every year on Halloween our neighborhood gets together and has a parade.  The fire truck comes to lead everyone down the street and all the little kids follow behind in their costumes.  We had been advised to expect about 200 trick or treaters and judging just from the kids at the parade that seemed pretty likely.  It turned out that since our house isn't on the main loop we only got about 100, but that's still a pretty high turnout!

Our neighborhood buddies making up the parade stroller brigade.

Jackson went as a penguin, of course.  This was the perfect costume since the temperature was in the upper 40s.  He loved watching the older kids during the parade.  We only took him to 5 houses, mostly to say hello to our new neighbors, but he had a very good time.  Once he finished Matt and I pulled out some chairs and passed out candy from the front porch.  We laughed to think how much Halloween has changed for us.  We may not have been dressed up and dancing in the French Quarter this year, but I'm not disappointed :) 

The little girl next door. 

One of our babysitters, Miss Allison.  She lives on our street. 

Gracedog keeping watch in the background.