There is just something strange about this big child of ours turning 10. The last 10 years have been a blink, and it shows just how much the 10 leading to age 20 are going to blink by as well.
As per the request of the birthday boy, I decorated the kitchen and we blew out candles on a pile of cinnamon rolls before school. Luckily the kids care more about a present than the wrapping, because I sure forgot to grab paper and his Daddy wrapped everything the night before in what we had.
Christmas trees!
Funny enough, when I decided to start this birthday morning tradition on Elliot's birthday it went terribly wrong. We decorated, I sent Jeremy out for donuts, and Elliot had a cow.
He is dead set on the fact that you can't have donuts if you aren't getting your hair cut.
Who can blame him, they only get donuts when we all go to the barber shop. They all get trimmed and while Jeremy is getting a hair cut I take the boys next door to the donut shop to occupy them.
We let Harry open one present before school, and I nudged him after what my MIL got him. She found a komodo dragon stuffed animal that the stomach unzipped to reveal its full of a ton of babies.
Like the boy version of that pregnany Barbie. 😂
He loves it, and its equally cool and hilarious.
After all of the birthday festivities - Harrison out bowled us all. To his benefit Jeremy jammed his finger just as we started and refused to let me bowl with the the guards up - my week of teacher scheduled doctors appointments began.
Gotta love doing everything during any break from school.
Had my yearly everything, and also found out I've hit the yearly mammogram age. With our family history I also need to decide if I finally want to get the genetic breast cancer screener I've been putting off for the last decade. I've just hesitated because I don't know if I want to know, but I want to know, but I also don't want to do what it takes to prevent this if I get a positive on that test.
Ya know, great grammar, but the point is... I just don't know.
Elliot has been bugging me to do differnt things at the zoo. Since Jeremy was with us I gave in to feeding the birds. He can go in, I still recall sitting under my desk crying when someone brought birds to class in 3rd grade for show and tell.
With Jeremy in there feeding birds, the kids did great. Big ole chicken Elliot had a great time.
At some point of the birds barely flying around Jeremy walked out and convinced me to take his stick and go in... the birds started flying and jumpy Mama made for a jumpy Elliot.
We ended our week with our ususal Kid Strong Acadiana afternoon. I hate that Harry only has two years left and wish we had started sooner. I love the coaches and how they motivate the kids. The boys enjoy it so much. It pushes them physically and they also have to listen and work in groups.
Elliot got excited Saturday becuase Harry's class had an odd number of kids. They got to a game and everyone needed a partner, so Elliot got called in to work with Harrison. He was really beside himself getting to run around with the big boys.
That about wraps us up. We had a pretty chill week, I didn't even get to two cleaning projects and two craft projects I intended to get to.
