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For Baby’s ninth birthday, we were just hoping that Ethan and Rebecca could find a day in their busy schedules to come up and see us….and they did!

 

Thankfully (and I mean that with a candy bowl full of sincerity) Glo is living at home at the moment, and she was more than happy to take over the decorating duties.  Decorating the Kennedy home for Halloween is no easy task, but she took it on.  Just getting the tubs out of the basement requires Herculean strength, and then sorting through the decorations to find the good ones is also daunting.

 

We had gone to dinner with John’s brother, Jacob, and his girlfriend and few weeks earlier, and the girlfriend friended me on Facebook.  She had posted a photo of hanging hats and candles in her front hall (which looked darling) so I got on Amazon and ordered more candles than we could use for a while.  Hanging taper candles and column candles.  Like, 150 of them at least.  With Glo’s excellent discretion and discerning eye, we really did create the Kennedy haunted mansion.

 

I searched high and low for a Halloween dress for Baby, but they don’t seem to be on trend as much as they used to.  I eventually bought her a black dress with orange and white striped leggings.  I also got her a new pair of white Adidas tennis shoes since I assumed she had grown out of the ones Glo gave her last year for her baptism. It’s so fun to see that she now embraces having a birthday so close to Halloween—she’s 100% in on everything.

 

We let Baby choose a lot of what we did for the day, and how fun that she chose to go to the Dexter path.
 John, Ethan, Gordon, Mark, and Everett took off running (yes, Everett!) while the rest of us walked.  Rebecca commented at one point that she probably needs to start running again, because Baby is definitely following in her walking footsteps (even though she’s in a little running club).  At one point, Baby did start running, and she has a great little stride.  Maybe someday she’ll go with the boys ;-)

 

We then spent some time at the playground next to the Dexter library.  Gordon taught us when we should jump out of a swing using physics, and he climbed the giant rock with the kids.  Ethan nearly gave Rebecca a heart attack, doing underdog with Tater.


Gordon is definitely the FUN-cle!

We then headed over to the Dexter cider mill for cider and donuts.  The line was wrapped around the mill, but it moved quickly.  They were delicious as always...to us AND the wasps.  And Culver’s for a quick lunch?  Hmmmmm…..

 


Baby had requested birthday dinner at Ford’s Garage (never a bad idea!), and they were kind enough to give her a free dessert.  We headed back home for carving pumpkins, and a piñata.  Once again, Glo used her skills to decorate a chocolate cake in the spookiest way possible, and we opened gifts.






This might be one of my favorite pictures of her ever.



It was really all that we wanted.  Just a day with Baby, celebrating her ninth birthday.  It’s crazy to think of how quickly she is growing up.  I cringe when I think about it, but I also am excited to see where she goes over the next nine years! 

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