Norris Family Blog

Celebrating Julie's Birthday

We were going to PB&J's house to celebrate Julie's birthday, so we had called Jason on Saturday and asked his dad, David Strange, to see if Jason would be able to join us. David agreed and said he would bring Jason out to Pauline and Brent's house Sunday for the party. We left the farm and arrived at PB&J's house to find Jason and his dad waiting in the driveway, but Pauline, Brent and Julie were gone. We talked a short time and David told us he had talked to Brent on the phone and they were buying Julie a pair of shoes and should return home shortly. Jason grabbed his bag of clothes and said good bye to his dad, we thanked David for bringing Jason and then David left. We went inside and Pauline, Brent and Julie returned about 20 minutes later with Julie wearing a new pair of shoes. Pauline began the party by setting in the floor and helping Julie open some of her birthday presents.
   
After opening her presents, Julie was playing with a few of them while Pauline and Brent used their air compressor to blow up the swimming pool they had given Julie. They sat the pool on their patio and filled it with water from the hose. Linda carried some buckets of hot water from inside and dumped them in the pool to warm the colder hose water. After a few minutes the pool was filled and at an acceptable temperature for Julie to be placed in the pool.
  
Brent set Julie in the water and Pauline talked her through the initial shock of being in the water. They splashed a little water around and then Julie seemed OK with being in the water. Pauline was able to call to Julie and get her to walk across the pool and soon we were playing ball and splashing her a little more each time until she was OK with it. After at least a half hour of splashing and standing in the pool, Pauline brought out drinks and the birthday cake she had baked for Julie.
   
Brent lit the '1' candle and then helped Julie by blowing it out. Pauline cut the cake and served Julie a piece and Julie knew what to do with it from then on. She loved the cake and ate it with her hands and a few times with a spoon. The spoon was new for her to use by herself and pieces of the cake ended up everywhere but in her mouth. It was cute! We all ate cake and talked as Julie continued to eat. When she finished eating they let her get back in the pool a little until she was getting tired and ready for a nap. It seemed Julie enjoyed the entire party and we were glad we made it to see her first birthday party. Since Julie was going to take a nap, Linda and I decided to make a quick run to Sam's Club to pick up some groceries. Stacey and Jason decided to wait at PB&J's house while we went. We were gone a little over and hour, then returned to pick up Stacey, Jason and Missy. Jason checked in with his mom on the way to Glasgow by phone and told her we were going to stop and eat at Mancino's Restaurant We called in our order and they had it ready when we walked inside. We ate, then drove back towards Burkesville and stopped at Stephanie and Tommy's house to drop off Jason. We talked with them for a while and then came on home.