Hope everyone is having a good holiday weekend thus far! Kids are currently napping and the adults are going to see Steve Martin and Martin Short tonight, along with a kid-free dinner. Woohoo!
We had a great Mother's Day Weekend and even got a quick visit from Chris. He was in Indianapolis for two weeks but came back home for literally 12 hours on Mother's Day. The kids were stoked. They had each decorated a Dorothy Lane Market cake for me the day prior, but then instructed that I could only eat one piece. The rest had to be saved for daddy. Whaaaaatttttttt?!? This was supposed to be MY day, MY cake, MY celebration. I almost punished them, as anyone would attest that to ask a mama to share a cake on her big day is just downright absurd. But they were too cute and too excited to share my cake with their daddy, so they dodged timeouts....this time.
Kings Island
Both kids (and Chris) are currently obsessed with Kings Island. We have been three times already this year and all three make requests to visit literally on a daily basis. Adley hit the 36-inch mark, so she can ride more rides, even some by herself. She has overcome her tremendous fear of well, everything. Last year, she couldn't even sit on someone's lap...on the stationary bench...on the carousal without crumbling apart and melting into a puddle of tears. Now she is "a big girl" and wants to do whatever Claire does. And Claire does not mind one bit; they run around holding hands and giggling about anything and everything.
Kings Island Trip #2
Our most recent trip to Kings Island was just our crew with LollyPop. We thought we were being smart because we went on a day where the forecast called for rain, but we were greeted with 90 school buses that day! I was speechless. It did rain, but luckily we had ponchos and no one skipped a beat.
Hudson is about to finish swim lessons, just in time for the pool to open. He still can't swim on his own, but he is smarter, more cautious and not as afraid as he was last year (in the deep end that is). He can almost float, but I think part of that challenge is just how dense that boy is. He is one solid kid.
Hudson graduated from Pre-K this week and we were all pumped to celebrate his big day and watch him sing songs. He has been practicing all month. He takes his singing very seriously. If he messed up, he would start over. He wanted to perfect his hand motions and he even practiced his impromptu dance moves. One song was to the theme of The Jefferson's, Moving on Up! And another was to Tai Cruz, Dynamite. Hysterical stuff.
His teacher, Mrs. Ophelia and some of his classmates. Cousin Claire is on the end.
After the performance, the poor guy lost it. I almost lost it as well. He wouldn't take pictures, he cried and he yelled; he couldn't even hug his teachers. I turned into that crazy mom and threatened to give his sister his balloon, which probably sent him over the edge (I did later apologize for that). The next day I asked why he acting out - he said his hat was too tight (he does have a fairly large head), his tassel kept getting in his eye (which didn't seem to bother any other kids) and he didn't take a nap. On the way home, Adley kept belting out all the graduation songs, which added mayhem to the madness. Chris and I thought that was funny; Hudson did not. The picture below was BEFORE he had his meltdown, ha! Oh the joys and stresses of being a parent.
Amidst the chaos and stress of graduation night, we did have a good time and was proud of our future kindergarten boy. And I also happened to catch an awesome video of him singing and dancing, so we will all choose to forget the bad and remember the good!
Happy Memorial Day Weekend!
