Husband Brag

Today I co-hosted a baby shower for a dear friend and had to be gone from noon until 6 p.m. That meant Kelly and the kids were on their own for six whole hours. That was probably the longest I have been away from the house and it not overlap with bedtime. The house was a bit of a disaster when I left as I had been working on lots of prep for the baby shower - i.e. games, food, party favors, etc. (Thank heaven it was not being held at my house - THAT would have been stressful!) When I got home Kelly had picked up and vacuumed the living room, swept the kitchen, and was cooking some dinner. On top of that he had taken the kids to Target to get some different training pants for Jonah and was in potty training mode with him when I got home. Oh, oh and he bought diapers while at Target and even used coupons from my coupon binder. What a man!

As I write this, he is out having some manly, man time with a couple friends. You deserve it Sweety!

Elisabeth's 1st Birthday Party

We had about 25 people (kids and adults) here on Friday night for Elisabeth's Birthday Party. The weather was stormy earlier but cleared up about 30 minutes after people started arriving. The kids had a great time in the pools and with the water sprinkler. Jonah kind of dominated the big pool as he likes to splash a lot and the other kids weren't really into that. Serra hung with him though and Olivia got more tolerant of his splashing towards the end. Jonah definitely had a good time. Elisabeth hung out in the baby pool by herself for a while, then little Yusef joined her. He didn't like the water and started crying which upset her and she started crying. And the end of the evening, we rewarded those who stuck around with the left over fireworks from Independence Day.



For all the pictures and video from the evening go to Flickr.

Birthday Party: How do kids eat cake?

Elisabeth: Very carefully - at first.









Jonah: Icing first, of course