Birthday Party Times Two

Hello everyone, this is Morry.

As a follow-up to last night's post, Noah threw a fit in his room for an hour last night and finally fell asleep. I went upstairs around 11-ish. I saw a bunch of stuff on Noah's floor but it was dark. I decided I'd deal with it in the morning. Unfortunately, Noah had underwear on (backwards) and he really needed his pull-up on. So I very carefully pulled Noah's underwear off and put his pull-up on. He didn't wake up but I guess that got him from a deep sleep. About fifteen minutes later, I heard Noah crying. He didn't want to tell me why he was upset so I just closed the door to his room and went back to my room. A few minutes after that, I heard banging. Noah was punching the door. I went in his room and turned on the light and then the full extent of the mess became apparent. Noah had yanked his alarm clock/CD player off of his dresser and out of the wall and thrown it onto the ground. He had pulled his lamp out of the wall and must have smacked it on something and shattered the CFC light bulb. He had thrown the DVD player that we keep in his room to keep him occupied at night on to the floor. Rachel and I cleaned up; Rachel vacuumed while I picked up things and we took everything out of his room except for the dresser and bed essentially.

This morning, however, was much better. Noah was in a very good mood as was Evan. We had two birthday parties to go to, back-to-back at the same place. One went from 10:30 to 12:30, the other from 1pm to 3pm. Noah was invited to both as well. The first party was for Evan's friend Victoria. Actually she's more of Evan's girlfriend. They spend a lot of time together at school. It's very cute. The party was at this inflatable place called Hoppin' House. Both boys had a great time running around and playing. At one point, Evan and Victoria were walking around together. Victoria had her arm around Evan and she was steering him where she wanted to go. Evan's friend Cayden yelled for him to come over to be with the "guys". Victoria wanted him to go with her. He paused trying to decide where to go. He ended up going with Victoria. I think that girl vs buddies dilemma will keep popping up in his life.

The second party was Cayden's party. They continued having fun. Ella, a girl from Noah's class, was invited to that party. Noah enjoyed seeing Ella. At one point they hugged. When did my little boys start being such ladykillers? At the end, Evan looked really tired and was really cranky. But all-in-all they had a good time.

Noah actually took a nap in his now-empty room.

For dinner, we had pizza. They had an entire extra pie at the first party which they let us take home. That saved us from having to cook tonight.

After dinner, Evan and Noah cleaned downstairs and the game room. Neither complained. They were very good.

They are supposed to be in bed but both are down here now.

Until next time...