Party Party Party

Well I never got around to posting anything about the Memorial Day party we went to at Amy's house.  It was a lot of fun.  There were lots of kids and even Lennon had his little friend Bianca to play with.  The older kids spent a good deal of the day collecting little caterpillars and tiny green worms and stuff.  They had a pretty big bowl of them pretty quickly and then the poor things just sat there and boiled in the bowl all afternoon probably wishing they could be burrowing underground.  Unfortunately Lennon got his first bloody nose while there.  It was purely accidental.  In fact he gave it to himself by knocking a plastic toy tub up into his face.  He was pretty startled by it and wouldn't let me clean his face off very well so he ended up just sporting a nice gruesome bloody nose for the rest of the afternoon.  Here are a few pictures...

Jessica on baby duty at the Memorial Day Party at Amy's house

Diva, Mia, Mateus and Ella having some juicy watermelon

Budding love between Lennon and Bianca

This weekend has been super busy.  Friday was supposed to be field day at Mia's school, but it was nasty and raining so they just got to do one relay race in the gym and then go down to the cafeteria for slush and a dj for about 15 minutes.  I think the kindergarteners still had a lot of fun, but it was kind of lame.  Suzanne came and stayed with Lennon at the house so that I could go up to the school and help out.   Lennon has been a little bit sick all week.  He may be getting another tooth, plus he has a nasty cold with a cough and he's just generally been feeling kind of clingy and sad.  I put him down a little bit early for his afternoon nap, around 12 30 and went to lay down myself.  He rarely sleeps longer than one hour so I never dreamed that I would need to set any kind of alarm to be at Mia's school to pick her up at 2 15.  Well lo and behold I woke up at 2 20 and Lennon was still sleeping away.  I had to rush into his room scoop him up and toss him into the car to speed down the street to Mia's school where she was waiting outside the door with her teacher.  Fortunately the school is only about 2 minutes by car and her class is usually a few minutes late in the afternoon anyway, but still it was a very close call.  Then I checked my voice mail and had a message from Suzanne saying she was running late and could I please pick up Naomi from her class so we sped around the corner to find Naomi waiting outside with her teacher.  So it was not a good parenting day for me or Suzanne.  So then I took both girls back to our house and we ended up having a sleepover.  The girls didn't go to sleep until a little after 9 even though they were in bed long before that.  

Saturday morning Mia was up and trying to wake Naomi at 5 22!!!  I went in and told her to go back to sleep for at least an hour.  Lennon actually slept in until 6 45 which was something of a miracle and much appreciated since we had a long day ahead of us.  We first had Mateus' 4th birthday party at 10 am at a playground nearby.  It was Star Wars themed and Mia was very excited to participate in the Jedi training Claire led and then to receive her inflatable light saber.  The cake was delicious, but Mia didn't like it because she is CRAZY!  It basically tasted like a pumpkin roll with chocolate chips in it.  Then we had to leave a little early from there to make it to her next to last soccer game and team pictures.  The game was pretty much a bust.  The kids and pictures were just too disorganized so it was largely a big playdate with her soccer team.  She had a good time rolling down the hill with Giovanni and Isabella.  We cut out of the game a little early to go home and let Mia take a little nap before heading out to Giovanni's 6th birthday party which was at his parents church.  Now this was some kids birthday party!  The cake was HUGE and I said something about it to Giovanni's mom who responded something along the lines of "well if everyone shows up there will be close to 100 people here, so I had to get it that big."  One HUNDRED people!  No joking.  It was awesome.  They are Brazilians and Brazilians like to have fun.  There was air hocky, little bowling sets, foosball, baseball, basketball, darts, you name it.  Pizza, hot dogs, popcorn, juice, cake and all kinds of goodies.  Fortunately for me I didn't have to do much arguing with Mia over her having tons of junk food cause her stomach had been bothering her all morning and she didn't really feel like eating anything.  She had an awesome time and we discovered that Lennon is fascinated by basketballs.  He is just so excited that the Celtics are doing so well I guess!  He had so much fun following after this basketball and picking up way over his head it was hysterical to watch him.  We got home from that party at about 6 and all four of us were completely exhausted.  Shelby and I had cheese and crackers for dinner and put the kids to bed.  We tried watching some Designed to Sell and played a game of skip bo, but we were both in bed and asleep by about 9 PM.  Shelby has this weird stomach thing that I had about a week ago and I think Mia has a touch of it too.  Shelby though is feeling just terrible and can't eat anything.  We've just gotten home from church and Lennon and Shelby and taking naps.  Later this afternoon we are going to a church carnival down the street, St. Joseph's Feast it's called.  We are meeting Naomi's family there about 5.  Mia is super excited.  I'm looking forward to it, and also to the weekend being over.  I'm pretty tired.  Hopefully this next week will be filled with rest and relaxation.  HA!  Well, at least it will be filled with my wonderfully exciting growing children and my mom is coming to town on Thursday!  Yea!  That will give me a little reprieve.  

Mia and Giovanni at his birthday party

Just a small sampling of the people at Giovanni's party

Lennon loving his basketball

Go Celtics!!!

"Watch my Herculean strength!"

Mia eating birthday cake with Bella

Mia in the stands during field day with Bella

Mia eating slush with Angelina after the relay

I got to dance some with Mia in the cafeteria.  She isn't embarrassed of me...yet.

Angelina, Mia and Naomi in the cafeteria

Diva, Mateus, Claire, Mia, Ella and Miranda about to eat cake