Just a Few Fun Things

For New Years we had planned to have the "Party Pooper" party as we had last year. This year we were all tired and didn't want to ring in the New Year at midnight and felt somewhere around 9 or so was sufficient. Unfortunately, I ended up with the stomach flu. We ended up having a party about two weeks later and invited another family to join us. It was great! We made nachos, played games and the kids had fun hanging out, playing and making lots of noise. We just might have to do this again next year!! and yes, we rang in the new year at 9 or so, the kids had to get up for school the next morning.

So Thomas has been in big boy underwear since the beginning of the summer, well over 6 months. He had to do the whole diaper to bed thing for awhile, including time after Benjamin was born. There was no way I was waking up to a wet bed in the middle of the night, when I was already getting up to feed the other sweet boy. So about 4 months ago I took a deep breath and went with big boy underwear to bed. I was afraid of nothing!! Never a leak! He was a pro! That is until one morning last week. He came in my room sobbing. He was so sad, embarrassed and I think a little confused. Needless to say, the whole bed had to be changed, aired out and cleaned. It wasn't ready by nap time, so it was time to come up with something creative. We made the coolest tent. It went from his dresser to the mattress. We piled up all the extra pillows and blankets we could find and filled it with books and his favorite guys. It was great! We hung out in there for awhile reading books. I thought he'd be so excited that he got to sleep in it, nope! He wouldn't buy that it was perfect for sleeping... oh well. He did have some quiet time. He couldn't wait to share it with Daddy when he got home, they stayed in there until it was time for dinner. I think we'll have to do it again, minus the whole wetting the bed thing!

Last week we had a pretend party. Our friends, the Persickes, invited us over to the Long's house. Well their old empty house. The P's were helping to show the house to possible renters and had a key. They thought it'd be fun if they took some pictures of a "party" and posted them on Facebook. Well the pretend party turned it to quite a fun, real but short party. They even made a cake. The little ones were a little confused but it was fun none the less. You can see a video they took a few posts down.