May the Fourth Be With You

We need to have a talk about my son. There is something about this little charismatic boy. I don't know what it is. He just.....has a way of making my day a little brighter. I guess that's why when I go to wake him up in the morning and am greeted by a pile of puke, it makes me worry. Of course, when that pile of puke happens to show up the morning of his birthday party that cannot possibly be rescheduled due to people coming and going out of town and this is the only opportunity to have all the neighbors together until the middle of July....well then it's not only worrysome, it's downright RUDE. How DARE that little pile of puke show up TODAY of all days?! Didn't it get the MEMO that it was NOT invited?? I mean, this is a pretty darn healthy kid, he doesn't get sick very often, but of course it had to be on a special day.
So after getting him and the carpet cleaned up, I went about setting up for the party. I had lots to do, and not much time. I had to move the party up a few hours on short notice to accomodate everyone's schedule. I had to run a few errands, and as I was nearing Pizza Hut to make an order, I hear a strange bubbling noise and Celeste say, "eeeeeeeew he threw up!!" then a few seconds later, "AAaH! He threw up AGAIN!!" thena few more seconds later, "AND AGAIN! EEW it's getting disgusting!" *sigh* And here I was hoping it was just something that didn't agree with him last night and he'd be all better. Apparently not. The good news is that after I got him all cleaned up again, I put him in his crib and he just took an early nap, and he was out of the way. The bad news was the HUGE mess in the car I had to clean right away before it set in. The only part of the mess I didn't clean up right away was the plastic part of the car seat, I hosed that off later (and scrubbed with dish soap). Anyways, That just meant I had a lot to do still, and even less time to do it in. I was in high stress mode by the time 11:40 came around and I had to go pick up the pizzas (which I called in to order since I never made it there). SO.....a neighbor boy came over to stay with Celsete and sleeping monster while I picked up the pizzas and I was onle a few minutes late! *phew!*

I think I forgot to photoshop all the kids who didn't saw "cheese". hehe! And I went to get monster, and Celeste insisted we all yell "SURPRISE!!". So my almost two year old had a surprise party. Because he really knows what that is. *wink* And what did the birthday boy get to eat at his party?? CRACKERS AND APPLESAUCE!!! OOH I'm such a NICE mommy!!

After lunch, it was time for presents!!  Seriously, this kid scored tons of superhero stuff and cars!! His father would be sooo proud. When he opened his cammies, Mark proudly declared, "HE GOT CAMMIES! Now he can play with us!!" yaya...my son can now hang with the cool kids!!

Next was cake time! Sorry the cake is not the prettiest thing I've ever done, but I was REALLY REALLY low on time!! Also, the superman wasn't there origionally, I don't remember quite how it got there...I think Caleb was holding it.

Then....SURPRISE SARA!!!!!! It's Sara's birthday today, so we surprised her with BROWNIES!!

I found that I just couldn't NOT give the birthday boy some cake. He got a little slice, and didn't eat much of it, but at least he got some. I kind of feel sorry for the little guy, being a fourth of July baby. I mean...it's an AWESOME birthday, and summer birthdays really stink cause every one is out of town, but dang it, if you're going to have a summer birthday, you should have it on a super cool day. Unfortunately.......this kid is stuck with America stuff. I can't help it. His cake. it's a FLAG. Half his clothes are patriotic. This kid was born on America's birthday and America is going to stalk him for  the rest of his life. America is going to have PARADES and FIREWORKS on his birthday, and not even mention it's his birthday too. America is going to blow out all his birthday candles on his sixteenth birthday. Poor poor boy. OK I'm over it.

After the party, Caleb went back down for a nap. And after cleaning up, I went down for a nap myself. Let's face it, I had a fairly tiring morning. When I got up, I showed monster how to use his new sweep and dustbin set. Let me explain why I got him these....he always tries to mop and sweep if there is a mop or broom around. He loves pretending to vacuume. and now....he loves his little sweep set. And so do I.

The rest of the day he wouldn't eat anything. I gave him bread with peanut butter, a banana, more saltines...he wanted nothing to do with any food. I did get him to drink a sippy of pedialyte though. Hopefully tomorrow he will be better.
Cheers!