The reason I was looking for some downtime was it was another crazy week. It was a really fun week, but it was busy. In addition to the usual chaos that is our household, my parents were visiting and all three big kids had field trips last Wednesday. Ree went to a plantation as part of her class's study of pioneer life, and the boys went to fire station. It should be noted that the boys asked many questions on the field trip, including Leon asking dispatch if they had games on their computers. Somehow it seems fitting that the only pic I have to share on here of the boys' field trip is Leon stopping, dropping, and rolling.
The boys' birthday was Friday. It's hard to believe they are five. (On a side note, it's just about as cold as it was when they were born. Although I am a four seasons girl, I did really enjoyed the random 70 degree days last week! I was not a fan of walking to the rec center on campus this afternoon when it was 39 degrees at 1pm)
The boys had a great birthday complete with lots of celebrating. First, they got to celebrate at school. Their school celebration is simple, yet meaningful. They each took a turn holding a globe and walking around a candle to show the Earth going around the sun for each year they've been alive. (For visuals, check out last year's celebration, and yes, a lot of it looks remarkably similar to this year.)
Friday night went to Chuck E. Cheese for dinner with my parents. It was the first time we've gone since their birthday last year, and everyone had a lot of fun.
Michael playing a fishing video game.
Leon convinced a boy who was about eight-year-old to play air hockey with him.
Grown ups can play too.
After that, we came home and opened presents from family and had ice cream sundaes, which are a tradition for the family party.
The birthday celebration continued on Sunday with a party with friends from preschool. I know all the other kids get to have cool parties and have bouncy castles and go roller skating, but we kept it low-key and had an old-fashioned at-home party at my parents' house. (And we had fun. Dang it!)
I may have had a little too much fun making swirly frosting with sprinkles on their cupcakes. We eventually also added Angry Birds cupcake toppers.
My kids believe all you need for a party is streamers and balloons. I can so work with that.
Playing some Angry Birds while they waited for guests.
Pin the tail on the Angry Bird.
One of my favorite party games as a kid was Find the Treasure in a Box. You take the prize and wrap it in a series of boxes. You play music, and when it stops, that kid gets to open the box, hoping to find something other than another box. I busted out that game and managed to keep eight preschoolers entertained for 10 minutes. Success!
There is a much bigger table behind them, but the kids opted to squeeze in together at the little table to eat cupcakes. Also, every boy at the party was in a striped shirt. Impressive.
All together, it was a very, very good birthday. And a very good week.
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