Mimi at 7

I'd been asking Naomi for a few weeks what she thought she might want for her birthday.  She didn't have any ideas.

Until two days before her birthday.  Then she told me she wanted her ears pierced.

Hope and Chloe got their ears pierced together; I wanted Naomi and Lucy to get theirs done together too.  But since Mandy isn't visiting anytime soon, and David has vetoed my plans to go to Spokane at Thanksgiving, having the girls get their ears pierced together didn't seem very plausible.

So her birthday started out at Claire's.

She was pretty scared that it was going to hurt.  She's a bit of a baby, and when I pinched her earlobe to show her what it felt like, she cried.  A lot. 

After the first ear was done, she was going to start crying.

But she got herself under control and didn't even tear up.  With the second ear, she didn't even seem to care.  She was too excited looking at her ears!

After we left the mall, we went back to Byron for the ByronFest carnival!  It was hot and sunny, so I stuck to the shaded spots while the kids rode their rides.

 

 

There was a parade we were going to go to, but the kids were having so much fun on the rides that they didn't want to leave.

After the carnival, we went home to rest for a bit.  Naomi decided she wanted to open her presents and have cake.  She had requested Filled Cupcakes instead of a cake.  They were yummy, and they're already gone.  Apparently I'm not the only one who loves them!

Most little people took naps for a bit, and then we went to the river to go for a swim and a boat ride.  Joel even got to drive the boat.  I'm not sure we ever went straight, and a couple of times he turned the boat completely around; he thought it was fun to drive back over the wake.

Naomi said it was her best birthday yet!