This past weekend, Dylan was invited to two birthday parties. Birthday party #1 was Julie’s celebration and it involved a pinata…Unfortunately, the guys in the back of the line (Dylan included!) didn’t get a chance to whack at it because it got busted open before their turn came up! No worries, though, the candy that came out was the important part!
Dylan exhibited remarkable constraint. He left the pack early and his bag only had 4 dum dums, a little thing of bubbles and 1 starburst!
Cameron had fun at the party, too. She got to see her buddy Kaden whom we haven’t seen in a while. We’ve been taking Music Together classes with him, but since the new job started, we’ve missed practically every session (although Tom has been able to take the kids a couple of times).
Birthday Party #2 was a blast. It was for a school buddy (Ava) and lots of other school buddies (Tanner, Jack B., Riley, Mia) were there as well. There was a bounce house, a petting zoo with bunnies and mini goats, and a face painter with awesome skills!
Dylan didn’t really feed or pet the goats much and he showed zero interest in the chickens, but he did hold a bunny in a basket for a few minutes before popping back into the bounce house.
Dylan also had a great time running through sprinklers with Tanner. They got drenched, so stripping down was “necessary.”
I spent most of my time trying to keep Cameron from eating dirt! Luckily, she found other diversions….
You’d think that after all of that partying, the kids would be tuckered out at the end of the day (we didn’t get home until after 5pm!!)! But, Dylan was still pretty awake and Cameron had that little snooze on the way home, so we hung out outside and inflated the bounce house in our backyard; we grilled up some bocas and prepped a salad with farm share veggies and candied pecans and ate dinner outside after checking up on the garden.
We got a pretty sweet haul of strawberries (of which I only got one to eat!) and we’ve got some nice clusters of nectarines on our tree. There are also clusters of braeburns and fujis (??) on the apple tree and a single pear and a single apricot on the other trees! Still waiting on tomatoes, snap peas and cherry tomatoes.
All in all, it’s been a great weekend….
