Current mood: happy
What a great day today was. It was awesome to get out, see old friend and watch Mia go nuts in the park. Today was her bestfriend, Abby's 1st birthday party in San Diego. We have been looking forward to this party for awhile, especially Mia who loves her friend and parks! Thank goodness the party didn't start until 3 so we didn't have to rush right down first thing in the morning since it takes alittle over an hour to drive down. So we had lots of time to rest and relax before heading out.
The drive went pretty normal with Mia not sleeping and getting cranky about midway down. Once we hit the park, however, she perked right up. We couldn't believe how many people were there the whole park was filled with families and parties and the majority was definately for Abby's party. It wasn't to hard finding the spot since we knew it was the party with multiple pinatas (4 to be exact) and tons of kiddie games. After saying Hi we spotted the Birthday girl! She was dressed in the cutest little Disney princess costume that made her look like a flower since she was surrounded by pink petals. We brought Mia over to say hi but she was acting shy. Not sure why she started this whole shy business up but at least she doesn't cry. It takes her awhile to warm up to new places and faces. She eventually did though.
We got there just in time, the food was ready and boy did we bring our appetites! All the food was great and homemade, you name it, it was there. Beans, rice, chicken, carne asada, potato salad and much MUCH more! So we filled our plates and managed to get two empty seats to sit and eat. Daddy balanced Mia on his leg while we balanced our food and ate. Mia LOVED the rice! She went nuts over it and kept stealing all of Daddy's rice and stuffing her mouth. She isn't a huge potato salad fan since she doesn't like olives and I warned Adrian to be careful and not have her grab that. Of course Mia did anyways and once it hit her mouth she let if fall out all over her clean dress and all over Adrian's pants! Sigh.... haha
We all grubbed out and then let Mia loose. She walked and walked all over the place and we took turns chasing her. Then it was Pinata time. I am not kidding when I say they had 4 pinatas!!! I have never been to a party with more than 2! but it was a great idea, two for the babies and 2 for the big kids. So Mia got to pull on the strings of the first baby pinata and grab some candy. Then Daddy joined us and he helped Mia get more candy once the other 3 pinatas exploded. My favorite one of all was a GIANT Cupcake! It was the cutest one ever and I almost felt bad to see it get bashed apart.
After the Pinatas it was cake time. So we all sang to the smiley Abby and we got to watch her try to blow out her candle. The cake was so cool looking, I don't remember who made it for her, I think one of her Aunties but it was the type you see on those professional cake contests on TV. They also had mini-bite sized cupcakes for the babies and of course Mia got some of that too. Daddy made sure to give her a bite after I happened to leave to throw something away. When I came back, Adrian looked all innocent but Mia had blue icing all over her mouth! haha
Then it was present time and I swear I have never seen a girl get so many clothes and toys for her birthday! Mia just stared in envy and I could tell she wanted to jump out of Daddy's arms to play with the toys!
After present time it was time for the older kids to play some of the games they had set up. Mia took this time to play with Abby who shared some of her new birthday toys like her toy phone. Mia smiled at Abby and they played together like good little friends. They even tried to give hugs and kisses to each other, it was too adorable!!!
Then we let her run around and play a bit more till it was icecream time. Adrian let her eat a little icecream and she ate a sucker too. She was eating all the bad things we never let her eat but hey it was a party what could go wrong? Well something did and it happened to happen right when I was holding her. I was standing up and trying to get her to smile by pretending I was going to spin her around (a favorite game with her) then I went to actually spun her and what did she do but throw up all her icecream and candy!!! YUCK!!! Luckily I already had her at an angle so most of it just went on the ground but some of it got on her dress!!! So I rushed her to Adrian while I ran to get some napkins to clean her up. She didn't even seem to be bothered by it and kept on running around.
We then walked Mia down to the park where there were swings and a jungle gym and all sorts of fun things. There was a massive amount of kids there so unfortunately she didn't get to ride on the swings but she did get to go on the slide. To our surprise she didn't like the slide at all!! The first few trips down it looked like she was enjoying it but then she started getting scared and almost crying so we had to stop. We had her check out a few more little toys things on the jungle gym but she started getting scared again! Finally we tired to have her crawl through a tube and as soon as Adrian put her in it she started crying!!! That girl needs to get out more, poor thing is scared of all the fun things at the park!! Then we found one of those bouncy, rocking horse thingies on a spring and that she actually liked. She had a good ol' time screaming and bouncing and rocking herself. Of course when I was finally getting some good pictures of her my memory card became full!! NOOOOOO!!!! So I had to walk back to the party and get her diaper bag which had an extra card in it. I could hear Mia laughing and screaming across the park! When I got back I got a couple of pictures before she bashed her mouth on the horse! She cut her lip a little but didn't cry and didn't want to be on the horse anymore so we took her off and went back to the party.
After visiting a bit more it was getting late and time to go. Of course we had to eat a little cake before we left and it was very good. Mia got some too! We then said goodbyes and headed back home. Mia knocked out in the car and didn't wake up until we were about 20mins from the house! What a nice treat for us!
Once we got home I fed her alittle dinner, let her play a bit then put her to bed. It took her awhile to fall back asleep but I think she is now. She is no longer kicking the side of her crib like I was hearing earlier... I really think I need to put that bumper back on or she will break the bars from kicking them so hard! haha
Overall we had a GREAT time at the party. Its so cute to see Mia with her little friends and having fun. The Gabel family were so nice and inviting they really made us all feel like family. It was a very fun day for all of us. Well I am sleepy now so off to bed I go, but not before I dive into our massive goodie bags!!!! haha I will try to upload the pictures tomorrow or soon =)
