Yesterday we celebrated Lilly's 5th birthday and Heidi's 2nd birthday. I thought I would share the story for those who don't know of how the girls almost had the same birthday. First of all I had the same due date with both girls. It was Oct 29th 2006 for Lilly and Oct 29th 2009 for Heidi. With Lilly I went into labor at 1:30am on Oct 17th (38 weeks and two days pregnant) and had her at 3:39pm that afternoon. With Heidi I went into labor on Oct 16th (also 38 weeks and one day pregnant) at 4pm. We headed to Hoag about 6:30pm and were joking the whole time about how the girls were going to have the same birthday 3 years apart to the day. I have a history of marathon labors so we just assumed this one would be the normal 13 to 20 hours. Even the nurses were joking with us about my long labors and how I would never deliver before midnight. I was actually pretty bummed because it was the one thing I didn't want for my girls. Well by about 10:30pm the nurses knew there was no way Heidi was going to stay in until midnight because I was dilating at lightning speed. And low and behold Heidi flew out (I'm not kidding I barely pushed once) at 11:30pm just 30 mins shy of being born on Lilly's birthday. My doctor barely had her gloves on before she was catching Heidi. So now everyone knows how close Heidi was to being born Oct 17th.
This year we decided to have a joint birthday party and will continue doing so until one of them decides they don't want to anymore. I'm sure they will hate me as teenagers for having their birthdays a day apart but that's the way it goes. Not much I can do about it now! We had a fabulous Barbie party for them yesterday and we all had the best time. Pink castle bounce house, separate Barbie cakes, and pinatas included!
Birthday girls before the party!
Lilly's birthday Barbie cake (my mom made both girls cakes! Amazing!)
Heidi's Barbie cake
Castle bounce house
Lilly, her friend Sofia, and Bobby bouncing. Heidi actually didn't want anything to do with the bounce house lol.
So we got a pumpkin pinata for the kids to whack. Normally one of the teenagers at the party busts it open for us after all the little kids have hit it. But this time we must have picked a crappy pinata or overloaded it with candy because it cracked open when Heidi hit it the first time. This of course led to a meltdown from Lilly and the other kids were bummed they didn't get a hit. Thankfully Michael dug out a beer bottle pinata from his college days out of our garage and we quickly filled that one for the kids. Lilly was happy again and all the kids got a turn. Now I can't give Michael as hard a time about saving all this crap from his bachelor days because that freakin' beer bottle pinata came in handy!
Heidi hitting the pumpkin pinata
Lilly getting her turn at the beer bottle pinata
Candy everywhere!
Collected her candy
PS We went to the Irvine Park pumpkin patch on Sat. That was an entirely different adventure that I will post about later this week.
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