Look who's 9! It was Brooke's birthday today, and what a day it was! Sunday is usually super busy, but we wormed our way out of meetings and had a day of family fun to celebrate Brooke!
On Monday evening there was a marching band practice, and we went with the Ellers. It was pretty fun to watch the band, and fun to be in a stadium again. I feel like it's been quite a while, and we wanted to go to a football game at the high school this year, but didn't manage it. So when another opportunity to go came up, we pounced, and the kids had a lot of fun climbing around the bleachers.
The cold has been trying to come lately, and the weather has begun to fluctuate with the occasional colder day. It's cold enough for jackets on the walk to school, and Winry was sporting hers wonderfully, and looked rather elf-ish in my opinion.
The school had a movie night, and the kids really wanted to go. There were lots of promises of being good listeners and going straight to bed when we got home, and since they said all the right things, and more so because I'm a sucker for fun experiences with the kids, we went. Here we are taking the red carpet VIP (and only) entrance.
There was a big projector screen set up, and the movie was Cars. We didn't stay for the whole movie, mostly because it was a school night. The kids got glow sticks, and some of Brooke's friends came and picked her up to enjoy the movie together for a while. We stayed for a little less than an hour, and then loaded Grayson back into the wagon and walked back home. I'm really glad we went.
On Friday night, Vivian took Brooke to Pinballs for her birthday! Vivian couldn't make it to Brooke's party on Saturday, so the original plan was just that she was going to come over Friday after school, but then her mom asked if Brooke would want to go to Pinballs with her. I'm a little bit jealous, because I too want to go to Pinballs. It's an arcade, and Brooke had a wonderful time. She got this pillow from her as a present too.
Saturday night was Brooke's party, and she wanted to watch High School Musical for her party, so we moved the bean bags down for the movie. It's pretty simple if you just throw them over the half wall. Little harder to reverse this process to get them back up...
Here's everyone enjoying the movie. They did a good job for maybe the first hour or so, and then the sugar, or childhood energy, kicked in, and most of the kids started jumping off the couch trying to touch the 9 balloon hanging from the fan.
And here's everyone together after the movie. After that, Brooke opened presents.
And then it was time for cake. We all sang happy birthday and dug in. And that was the end of the party. Then the kids just ran wild until their parents came.
Sunday was Brooke's actual birthday, and we jump started the day with presents. Brooke gets VERY excited for presents!
At church it was the primary program, and Brooke got to say the opening prayer. It would appear a child or cat got to the keyboard before printing was started, and I guess we'll have to see if Brooke's new nickname sticks.
Here are all the kids up front singing. Grayson was on the front row on the right, and Brooke and Winry were both pretty center stage. Also, I was left all alone on the pew!
Grayson got some new Grinch pajamas, and he is VERY excited about them. I need to work on getting as excited about things as my kids do!
And that's our week. We had a lot of fun celebrating Brooke and her birthday. I'm grateful she's such a wonderful kid, a great helper, and a superb older sister. I don't think I could ask for a better example oldest sibling for the other kids to learn from! You're the best Brooke!
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