Last Sunday we had a party to celebrate James's tenure offer at UT Austin, his PhD, and Louis's five month birthday. It was an opportunity to say goodbye to our wonderful California friends, since we leave for Chicago on Monday.
The kids had a lot of fun on the swing, bouncy house, and we filled our whale pool with balls -- endless fun throwing them out of the pool and cleaning them up. We also "painted" with water (since they don't know about real, messy paint, why teach them?) Rosemary is becoming a little OCD -- we swept up bird seed from underneath our feeder for about an hour together the morning of the party. It was the best time she's had all week, putting bird seed into the trash can.
Most of Rosemary's first playgroup was there (Anthony and Abby below).
And the two baby Louises were there!
Since James's only wish for our wedding TEN years ago was to have mariachis, and no one really paid attention to him, I decided that tenure and the PhD was an important enough occasion to have his own mariachis. Maria helped me book them with her Spanish language skills, and they were a big hit (especially with Rosemary -- she was absolutely mesmorized, as you can see from pictures below). James was surprised! He reminded me that he had been wanting mariachis since he was in the womb (his mom said he liked them when she went to their favorite Mexican restaurant while she was pregnant with him).
Since the bouncy house wasn't getting picked up until the next day, we even had a night-time jump with Aunt Summer and Baby B. Rosemary told Aunt Summer, "you don't know how to jump but I'll show you the way."
Rosemary is really into her backyard and pirate hat right now
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