Birthdays and Parades

This weekend Claire was lucky enough to get invited to her friend Matthew's 4th birthday party at the Bucks County Children's Museum in New Hope.  "Woot Woot!"  She was so excited :)

  Daddy and Claire headed into the party...

It was a lot of fun.  They had all sorts of stuff for kids to play with including a wheelbarrow...

(How crazy did this picture turn out??  Matthew's mom, Maria, was taking a picture at the same time so the flash made the picture look cut in half...ps I love how big she's smiling for Maria...such a ham).

She also loved looking through the netting at daddy.

And couldn't get enough of the lights.

After singing Happy Birthday to the super cute birthday boy...

We headed home and relaxed with a good book...one of Claire's favorites.

On Sunday, we took advantage of the gorgeous weather.  Claire's cousins, Aunt Colleen, Uncle Chad, and Nana and Papa came down for the St Patty's Day Parade.  We woke up early on Sunday morning and headed to 9:30am mass at where else but St Patrick's.

After mass we grabbed some bagels at Spread.  The line was pretty long so we had to wait a while.  Good thing they had some chairs out front b/c Maddie was exhausted...the life of a 4 year old can be so hard sometimes.

Once through the line, we headed over to the park to enjoy those delicious bagels while Claire took a nap.

 Then we were off.

We got there just before the parade started to come by so we got a great spot right in front of Logan Circle.  We parked our butts on the curb and waited for it to start.

And start it did.  I forget what these guys were called but they looked like Civil War re-enactors.  They made sure everyone knew the parade was starting by firing off their super loud guns.

Claire was not liking them so much.

She did enjoy the rest of the parade however...lots of bagpipes and dancing...I think we may even have a dancer of our own :)

Her favorite part though was getting to hang with some family.

And maybe posing for the camera :)