We woke up Saturday TIRED. It was raining outside so soccer was canceled, so I decided to go do a popup workout. I needed to jolt my system a little bit! It felt so good to have that done by 10!
The rest of Saturday was lazy and it was fantastic! We watched football, did laundry, watched more football and just hung out.
Saturday night we met up with some friends and their kids-- three boys-- at a restaurant downtown. We had a table out on the patio (covered on the sides) and the boys were WILD! It was so much fun!
I failed at taking pictures-- it was slightly crazy in there- but this one below was perfect for the night: there was a little couch off by the side where we ate, and the boys were tackling the tar out of each other...obviously putting on quite a show! HA! Fairly sure the restaurant was thankful to see us leave. We commented at least 20 times how nice it is to go out with people who "get" boys and their energy levels. If only we could bottle the energy from these 4 older ones, we would be so rich....
Sunday morning, the time changed....blah. The boys have handled the time change fairly well. The pup, not so much. He is up and ready to go EARLY. I am trying to "train" him back into sleeping later, but it isn't easy! I was doing laundry (side note: why do I feel like I am drowning in laundry? Obviously it is because of the weather and the layers and the activities which require change of clothes......but MAN! I can not get ahead of it!), and walked out of the laundry room to find Andy hoarding some football players and helmets... he looked so cute with all of them in his shirt.
So, we had TWO back to back birthday parties at Pump it Up this weekend. That is 4 hours of pure fun and excitement...for the kids. Well, when I received the evite for the first one, I clicked on the date to add it to my iCal. I received a notification that it was over day light savings, or something like that...so I clicked "OK" and moved on. I loaded up the boys and headed to pump it up for our 1:30 party....only to find out it didn't start until 2:30. My iCal didn't adjust the time from the evite. So we drove around for an hour; got gas, drove through a car wash, etc...just extra bonding time with the boys...! They were MORE than ready to play with 2:30 rolled around!
The first party was for Jack....
Cal was in class with Jack and Lilly last year and is with Jack this year. The three of them adore each other and I love watching them play and interact and talk.
After the jump part of the party, the group for together for the group shot:
And then they had some snacks and cake....
And Jack and Lilly's mom asked Cal to sit in the birthday chair with them- hahahaha Cal felt super special!
After we said thank you to everyone at the first party, we walked out of the room and instead of turning right to head to the parking lot, we turned left and walked back into the party room! The boys had a great time at the second party too...but I could tell they were starting to get tired. They weren't jumping quite as high or running quite as fast- haha
Owen had a surprise visit from a ninja turtle, which everyone loved (minus Andy....). Here is the group shot from that party:
After the jumping part, the kids all went into the room to have some pizza and cake. This is when I started to really feel tired....and the boys clearly were too....
Andy could barely hold his head up while eating cake. His head kept sliding off his little hand. Poor kid was exhausted! Daylight savings plus 2 parties wore his fanny out!
I guess Cal thought he needed to get in this birthday chair again...he hopped right up there and posed- ha! Whoops...
Sunday night we were all spent. I mean overly tired. I looked over to see Bruce spooning with Beyonce (we named this dog that....just because....).
Spending 16 hours at pump it up on Sunday didn't help my laundry over load. Maybe I will accomplish it all this week...?
