Birthdays Galore!

    We've had a few of birthdays lately, which Martha Rose was very excited about. She has apparently decided that her gifts will come in the form of firsts. For Noble's mom's birthday, Martha Rose decided to get not only her first tooth, but her first four teeth all at once. We were all very impressed.

    We celebrated at Olive Garden, but I don't have any pictures of the actual birthday dinner, since my camera died beforehand. What I do have are pictures of our spelunking expedition from earlier in the day. Noble, Martha Rose, Courtney (who was visiting) and I all took a trip to the Appalachian Caverns. They were pretty spectacular, and Martha Rose seemed to be enjoying herself. She especially liked it when they turned off all the lights and left us in absolute pitch darkness. What can I say? She's a bit of a weirdo :)


Here is the cavern:

 Courtney and I tried to squeeze through one of the crevices.

 Martha makes sure to take everything in...

 absolutely everything.   

 She's hard to impress.

 And here she is, happy in the dark:

     Nola's Birthday celebration was up next. She also chose Olive Garden for her birthday dinner, but this time I managed to snap a few shots. Martha decided that she would dress up in Nola's favorite theme for her: Nautical.

Here she is showing off the ensemble:

 Doing a little birthday dance:

 Examining the coasters:

 Hanging out with Ellen and Kenzo:

 Posing for the camera:

 Here is a rare set of happy photos with her cousin Frank:

 She really does like him :)

    Then, at Noble's birthday, she surprised us all by crawling for the first time ever. She had been warming up to crawling for months, but she saved the actual act for Noble's big day. Much celebration was had by all that night.

Noble picked out her outfit.

 The cap didn't last for very long.

 We got a new grill just in time for the occasion!

 Noble grilled us up some great burgers.

 This is what Noble gets for teasing me right before I decorated his cake:

 Here she is, resting after her first crawling experience.

 Martha decided to show us her best zombie impression. BRRRAAAAIIINNNNSSS!!!!

 All in all, it was a very happy birthday.

Blowing out the candles.

It's very sweet, so we will overlook the fact that these gifts let her share the birthday spotlight.