Happy 8th Birthday!

Holy moly. EIGHT years!? Where does the time go!? Today we celebrated Todd's 8th birthday at the SB Gymnastics Club. It was the first time since Todd was born that we had an actual party with his actual friends (well, we did try to have one with his kindergarten classmates on his 5th birthday, but only one classmate came, so that... doesn't count?) and he was soooo excited! So were we, but in a different way-- could we handle a room full of kids? Well, that is precisely why we held the party in a location where we could pay the staff to actually run the show :-D

The kids had fun bouncing around and doing all kinds of obstacle courses and exercises on the floor mats and gym equipment. The staff kept them sufficiently busy so that they were pretty tuckered out by the end of it!

Boys being silly:

The outside of the gym:

Lot of festive decorations inside:

Panoramic shot of the facility before the kids arrived. Trying out the new panoramic feature of my new phone's camera. Click for the original sized shot:

Mother's Day Lament

After lamenting the fact that the church has special activities on Mother's Day (like hiring a photographer!) but nothing like that on Father's Day, which Todd found insulting, he added this:

"Someday I'll be a father and then the church will insult me by not taking photos on Father's Day!"

Daddy the Handyman?

On Daddy fixing the leaking bathroom sink faucet:

 

Todd: "Is he going to do it himself, or is he going to hire someone? You know, he should ask Opa to help. Opa's good at fixing stuff, and plus he's family!"

Mommy: "What, you don't think Daddy can fix it himself?"

Todd: "No, of course not!" (and then jumps right into a story about how Opa fished out a toothbrush he got stuck in the sink drain once)

Don't We Count??

We had friends over to our place to hang out and sing some home karaoke. June and Ron were the first to arrive, and Todd and Jake promptly started playing together. They were in the dining room, eating a snack, while the grownups sat around the couch, conversing.

Neither June nor I wanted to get up and sing, we said we wanted to wait until there were more people.

Ron and Allan took offense to this, saying something along the lines of "What, don't we husbands count!?"

Todd peeked around the corner of the dining room and said: "Yeah, and what about your SONS!?"

Sigh... yeah, I supposed husbands and sons are people, too ;-)