Eclectic Parent

Friday was a busy, busy day. D had Casa Vida, his homeschool enrichment program. C and B had their second dance class. So it was drop kid 1 off, drop kids 2 and 3 off, pick kids 2 and 3 up, run around like maniacs getting last minute little gifts, pick up kid 1 and . . . Happy Birthday!

Today is D’s 7th birthday. Hard to believe seven years have gone by. He came home to his little presents stacked on his new bike. Definitely time for a bigger bike and this one is his favorite fire engine red. I can’t believe the little two managed to keep the bike a secret. They were with us when we bought it and haven’t told him. He was very excited to get some new legos - and Star Wars legos at that! Wow talk about two for one excitement. That and a new transformer, what more do you need? Oh and we also found some Rescue Hero- style superheroes. (They came in packs of three and we mixed the two packs up so D got his favorite superheroes and C is going to be surprised on his birthday when we have his favorites too!)

After McDonald’s for dinner - blech! I know, I know, but it was his birthday request - we headed over to see Ballet Under the Stars. Every year the Arizona Ballet Company does an outdoor free performance in the park. It is fantastic with the kids because they can get up and dance, wiggle, watch, play ring-around-the-rosie if they want. They watch some and play some. This year we met up with a few sets of friends (it was a fantastic chain of someone I’m friends with from homeschooling, two families I know from my mom’s group, someone they know from an attachment parenting group - so we made sort of a chain of each of us knowing someone and all the kids just ran around happily together) so there was definitely less watching and more playing, but the kids had a great time. We passed around cupcakes so everyone had happy chocolate frosting smeared faces; cupcakes at the ballet and all I could of was the Ben Fold’s song “Sports and Wine” - seemed equally dichotomous.  [It was a no flash situation at night so all the photos are blurry and grainy, but for some reason I still like them.]

Two out of three were asleep before we left the parking lot. A complete day.