Happy Birthday Chris!

Claire

She has been having fun at school making best friends and learning with her teacher and classmates. Since we haven't gotten her on a bus route yet, I've been picking her up from school and asking how it went every day so I get to hear about it as it is fresh and fun. She doesn't like talking about what she learned, but she tells me about the new friends she makes. We had a fun trip this weekend that she got excited about and spent a fun day with her great-aunt! They went and saw a movie, played at a park in the mall, ate at Chick-fil-A, and said she had a super fun day. I think she now knows the difference between a fun day and 'the best day ever' because she specifically remembers her birthday as the best. She was a lot of help on Tuesday when we were planning a birthday dinner for Daddy! She made sure I decorated and gave him the best plate and I had them drawing pictures for him so they could give them to him. It was pretty cute!

Shay

Her days with me are always full of her whispering while she plays a game, I just don't understand why she has to try to hide. She will ask for food all day if I don't limit it to specific times for meals and snacks so I'm working on keeping that schedule. I have observed her between all the things that I have to do all her games which seems to involve setting up her toys exactly so for her game before she starts playing. I think she is whispering commentary as she puts them where they are supposed to go, but that's just a theory. She told us she liked this weekend too because of going to a movie, and apparently is the reason they left the movie early because she couldn't sit still. She's a little wiggle worm, unless she's tired and falls asleep of course...they should have gone to the park to wear her out before the movie!

Chris

The reason the girls were hanging out with their great-aunts all day is because Chris and I went for a double date to Lagoon to ride the big kid rides! I told him this was his birthday gift so I wasn't going to do anything special on his birthday but I lied. He is a thrill lover and had a great time with the exciting rides plus I drove all the way to BWW for his favorite food for his birthday dinner. We had to go to Lagoon now so that I didn't miss my chance with this season and it was sooooooo worth it! There were some good rides I remember and then some that I don't remember being as bad as they were this time around. The jerky ones that bring you pain are no longer worth it to be, but the new ones were great and I would do them over and over if I could! They still didn't have their newest ride open even though there are billboards saying it is open this year...we will see...hopefully during frightmares which is the last planned time we are going to try to go. I hope his birthday was special enough and now he can't call me old like he does every 2 weeks when I'm a "year" older haha.