Spencer didn't have school again. This time I noticed with enough advance to block off part of my day at work so I only went in for a couple of hours. Then we arranged for Eric to come over for a playdate. When I got home from work there was a message from another one of Spencer's friends. He called again and I invited him over as well. I figured they are all in the same school class and poor Spencer hasn't had very many playdates with me working so much so I hoped having two at the same time would kind of make up for that. The three boys played for a few hours. They played Ninjago--had a discussion about the pronounciation of Nya that I finally had to step in and settle. Then they had their predictions of who would be the green ninja. And who they heard someone at school say it would be. Curious, I looked online and discovered Lloyd Garmadon (son of Lord Garmadon) will become the green ninja. At least I found a description of the upcoming Green ninja Lego toy that says it is Lloyd. I told the boys and they didn't believe me because Lloyd isn't a ninja. So much for my authority. Then I sent them outside onto the trampoline. They played out there for a while and then discovered if they ran around on the wet grass in their socks and then got on the trampoline they could slide really well. I don't think their mothers were too happy to pick them up with wet, dirty socks. They also had fun playing Beyblades. Who knew spinners were so exciting? And they were very good about allowing Tessa to play with them. I was thinking that Nya Lego toy I supplemented her savings with to buy on our most recent Toys R Us trip was worth every penny so that the boys would let her play with them. She was grinning and laughing and keeping up with them the whole time. It was really cute.
Because of work and then the long playdate it was already dinner time. I made a quick dinner and then the kids asked what we were doing for Friday fun day. So we took them to ColdStone. I had purchased some vouchers at Costco so our ice creams were half price. And I got an extra spoon for Clara but she wouldn't give back my bowl. At one point Brodie tried to give her his bowl so I could have mine but she only wanted mine. Good taste. My favorite is the "Founder's Favorite" which is sweet cream ice cream with brownies, hot fudge, caramel, and pecans. Tessa got cotton candy with sprinkles, Spencer got banana with Twix bars, and Brodie got red velvet cake with brownies and hot fudge.
Saturday was my nephew, Carson's birthday party. We went over for cake and ice cream and presents. The kids had a blast on the swingset and I nudged Brodie a little more about the idea of us getting one. I wonder if Brodie has learned that if I bring it up as much as I am doing I've already decided we're getting one whether or not he likes the idea. I'm just hoping if I can get him on board with the idea that he'll help me set it up. He worked in the garden while watching me try to haul all the boxes of the trampoline, open them, and try to set it up. I think I was at it for a couple of hours before he gave up and came and helped me.
As we were leaving the birthday party I mentioned we were heading to Rumrz for dinner with our Groupon. My sister mentioned that they needed to eat before driving back to Tremonton so maybe they'd join us. My mom volunteers at the Temple so my dad said he'd come because he loves Rumrz. So then my brother and sister-in-law decided since it was 5:30 and they didn't have anything prepared for dinner that they'd come as well. My youngest sister had just gotten off the phone with her mother-in-law who was buying dinner for them so she wasn't going to join us. I don't think the other customers at Rumrz were too happy about our big group of kids, but the cousins had a blast eating together. We had a "boys" table with Spencer, Logan, Carson, and Jacob. Then we had a "girls" table with Tessa, Alexis, Aliya, and Clara. Then we adults sat at another couple of tables and visited while we ate. It was great fun. Brodie gave our waitress a 25% tip on our bill for taking such good care and putting up with the bunch of us.
Then I stopped at the Distribution Center to be told I shouldn't procrastinate because they had sold out of pictures of the 12 Apostles a week ago. She didn't understand I'm much more productive last minute. So I came home and printed off pictures of them instead. And I read through 16 conference talks from October's conference. I finished preparing my sharing time lesson around 1 in the morning. Combined with the loss of an hour for daylight savings the morning came way too early. And because we had been out kind of late I didn't get all the kids bathed and showered Saturday night so I had to do it Sunday morning.
Even though we had all been together on Saturday for Carson's birthday and most of us went to dinner last night, we all got together again at my parents' house for dinner Sunday evening. We of course had a whole bunch of yummy food and enjoyed trying to get a word in the conversation during dinner. Because of the nice weather all the kids wanted to play outside in my parents' huge backyard. But the stairs off their deck don't have stairs and their huge yard has plenty of dangerous things for my little Clara so I went out to make sure she was safe. While taking care of the baby I heard the kids playing zombies and then heard mention of playing a game called "murder". I was a little apprehensive about my little ones playing these older kid games so I intervened and told the girls we should play fairies. I flew Clara around and we all chose a name and had fun being fairies. So much fun in fact that the boys wanted in on the action. So Carson declared himself Jack Frost and he was out to capture or destroy the fairies. So my heroic Spencer declared himself the person to save the fairies and he and Carson proceeded to wrestle and chase each other while the girls ran away from them, found hiding places, and collected magic berries. I don't remember what Logan was doing during all this. But at one point he was chopping a tree stump with a couple gardening shovels he found and ended up cutting his finger. So I got him a band aid. Then I decided to ring the kids in a bit in hopes of having a little more control over the wildness. So I enrolled them all in "Fairy School". I taught them how to fly like a fairy and a couple other things. Then Bailee wanted to teach them how to be a fairy rockstar. Then Aliya wanted to teach them how to magically disappear from one place and reappear in another place (I'll give you a clue--it had something to do with covering your eyes). Tessa was too shy to teach anything and I don't remember what Afton taught. Alexis taught fairy gymnastics. Then Carson got in the action declaring himself "Fire Fairy" and taught us how to make a fairy fire. Then Logan taught us how to make a Fairy Thunderstrike. And Spencer taught us how to make a fairy laser force field. After that I left them on their own and came inside with Clara. I am so glad my kids have cousins their age who we get to see regularly enough to have so much fun together. It was a great weekend!
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