First birthday celebration...of the year so far.

It's become tradition that the Michigan side of the clan give the girls their birthday presents at Thanksgiving, so we had a mini-party last night with the 9 of us. The girls got a lot of great games now that they're in the age 3 and up category and will be well entertained through the long cold Vermont winter ahead.



Self portrait:




Playing together, as they're apt to do:


They had a bit of left over cake tonight and made us sing happy birthday again. We're in for a loooong month of birthday celebrations!

Funny side story: We have a tendency to dress Hailey in pink, and Riley in purple. We have for a long time, and now that they're a little older, they claim that those are their favorite colors. Yesterday they girls decided they wanted to wear each others' sweatshirts in the morning, so we gave it a try. Chris and I were so messed up that we made them switch back after about 20 minutes. We thought they were easy to tell apart, but apparently we rely so much on their "usual" colors that it's a lot harder than we thought. I don't know what the moral of this story is, but I'm a little freaked out by it.