Booooon!!!!!!!!

We went to the party store on Saturday to get lots of balloons for Ava's party. Since her party wasn't until Sunday afternoon the lady told us we needed to put some substance (we can't remember what she called it.."keep it up" "keep it high" something to that effect. And yes, David has made lots of inappropriate jokes about that) in the balloons so they would still float at the party. It has been 4 days since we bought the balloons and they are still going strong! :)

Ava managed to let one of the balloons go in the living room which has a really high ceiling. I had cut the strings to give the kids at the party balloons to take home. So really high ceiling + really short string = an unreachable balloon!

Today while I was trying to get Ava down for her nap she was really concerned about her balloon! I told her that Daddy would have to get it when he got home and even with her eyes closed and drifting off to sleep she was still saying "boooon, dada, booooon, dada"!

Here's the attempt to rescue the balloon....

David finally managed to reach it using salad tongs but not 5 minutes later Ava let it go again and it drifted to the ceiling out of reach. I think we will just wait for the "keep it up" to stop working this time!