Well, Thomas turned four over the weekend. We had both sets of grandparents down, along with Robin’s sister and husband, plus cousins Cordelia, Hayden, and Brooke. Robin set up a really great party — she really outdid herself. Thomas has been just incredibly into animals lately so we did a jungle theme: green balloons and streamers, some inflatable animals for decorations, and face painting and headbands to make the guests look like animals. Robin arranged animal-themed party games like the “elephant cake walk” and “catch a tiger by the tail” (a variant of duck-duck-goose). To top it all off, she decorated a snake cake made out of four half-circles of bundt cake, complete with fruit roll-up tongue. It was really cute and a big hit. A good time was had by all.
Of course, we were totally exhausted afterwards. I’ve got tons of pictures and digital video of the party, so I’m really going to prioritize getting the photo gallery segment of my website implemented first so I can upload some of these. I’m about 30 pages from the end of the Baroque Cycle, so in the next day or so when I finish that, I’ll review it and then get going on the SWiSHMax development.
