A Fun day!

Peter's birthday is on MOnday - hard to believe that he is 8 already. We are having a family party on Sunday and Monday Pete starts camp for the week so we decided to give him his big present on Friday. He could not have been more excited with his Nintendo Wii. Uncle Rob got him started on the Wii over a year ago and we've been hearing about it ever since. I'm not big on video games - I actually hate them - but my sister in law gave me some sage advice and so we decided to get one anyways. (Her advice was that anything in moderation was not going to fry their little brains - she has so much common sense!)

Peter went to work with Bob for a few hours on Friday and came home to find that Mommy had set up his birthday present (all by myself) - his Wii! He jumped all over the house and yelled that he must be dreaming. He posed for a picture and then set out to figure the game out.
I'm not sure who is enjoying the Wii more - Peter or his father who spent much of the afternoon obsessing over getting to 100 points on ping pong. Bob thinks his form looks great in this picture - he's pathetic.
More father - son fun! Molly and I stayed out of their way!
ON Thursday night my cousin Eileen came over to give me my birthday present. It is extravagant beyond words and will get more use than anything else in my house. A little backstory........Eileen got a new camera a few months ago and I am in love with it - literally! It has no delay and takes pictures that are amazing. Everyone knows how much I love to take pictures and I happen to have the perfect subjects so it makes sense. Well, Eileen blew me out of the water by giving me the same camera she has for my birthday. I am SO excited and never stopped clicking away. The pictures self correct and the focus and light options make the pictures come out amazing - which is not to say that there is not some skill involved.
These are a few of my practice pictures - how cute is my girl!

Banana - our little caged animal!
I love this picture of Annie and Auntie Eileen - look at that sweet smile on my girls face!
Auntie Eileen and Ann bonding! Every time Eileen picked Annie up she would wave goodbye to me because she wanted to leave with Eileen - not sure what that says about me but......

Bob and the kids surprised me yesterday with thoughtful gifts and lots of spoiling - I'll post some pictures of that later! For now I'm going to snap some more pictures!