Sheesh – We now have a teenager living in our house. She has entered her teen years in proper fashion – with no sleep, too much silliness, and a lot of chocolate.

It began last night with her “sleep” over party (Ashley stayed at a friend’s house). One of her friends brought her a fun hat to wear.

We liked the alien on top. She had 7 teen girl friends here, including the girl who moved to Wisconsin. Her dad was willing to drive down the hour or so to deliver her for the party. Come morning, the basement looked like some scary scene out of a zombie movie, with bodies all over that groaned and stretched when forced to come alive. Kayla doesn’t do birthday cake, she has me make truffles instead. This morning, we had pancakes, so I stuck some candles in a cup and the girls sang.

After a shower and a nap, Kayla opened some presents.

Next, we ran some errands and ended up at Great Grandma’s house, where Kayla amazed (scared) us all with her ability to put gloves on her feet. Somehow, she could flex her toes in such a way that the thumb of the glove moved. Great Grandma was well entertained!

We all went to Kayla’s favorite dinner place, Sweet Tomatoes. Aunt Kim, Uncle Chris, and Greyson came, Gramma and Grampa came, and Aunt Erin, Uncle Jules, and Caleb came too. We had dinner and fun. Somehow, Sweet T’s knew we were coming, because the special ice cream flavor was chocolate mint!

Caleb liked his cone with sprinkles!

He likes his cousins too.

Caleb also likes when the girls do the Llama song. It might be hard to hear with the restaurant noise.

And just to prove that teenagers really are weird…..