FIVE

Yesterday afternoon a girlfriend from college (she lives in LA) came over for dinner and then stayed the night with us.  Her boys are 5 and 3 years old and her baby girl is 11 months.  The kids all have such a great time together.  There's always a lot of excitement leading up to seeing each other and then they talk about it for weeks afterwards.  This visit was no different and they had a BLAST.

Since we were spending today at Disneyland all day, I decided to do the cake last night after dinner.  Mike was unable to be there (he got home soon after) so it was nice to have some friends to share that with.  Meredith, of course, loved being the center of attention and having us all sing to her. 

So, cake last night and presents this morning.  It isn't the conventional birthday celebration, but sometimes you just have to do things however best they happen to work.  Before heading off to Disneyland this morning (we were on the road by 9:15am), Meredith opened her gifts.  She had a great time oohing and aahing over everything and giving out lots of Thank You hugs.  It was a nice way to start this special day!