birthday highlights

For my birthday (yesterday) Mr. D gave me a new digital camera, a bottle of wine and some dark chocolate candy. Doodle made me a beautiful card with watercolors and pen. The inside said HELLO MOMMY and the back said LOVE DOODLE (except it was his real name). My friend brought over a delicious vegetable stromboli from our local pizza place and we ate and drank wine and had birthday cake. The kids played and mostly stayed out of our hair. After they left I swept and mopped the kitchen floor and folded two loads of laundry while watching a portion of the previous night's Phillies play off game (they won that game and again last night!). Mr. D came home from work about 10 minutes early, which doesn't seem like a big deal, but it made a huge difference in terms of how much I could get done without children hanging on me. We fed the children and put them to bed. Our wonderfully generous neighbor came over and watched them (and the Phillies game) while we went out to dinner.

Here are a few pictures from the new camera: