We had a wonderful visit with Gaga and Papa on Simon's birthday weekend. We were so busy playing and reading and opening Simon's presents that we didn't really take many pictures. Simon loved having us sing Happy Birthday to him! But it was a wonderful visit!
Simon had 17 of the kids in his class to his birthday party at Little Kickers (they do kid soccer classes and soccer themed parties). We had 2 coaches for 2 hours to help the kids play, run, kick and generally have a blast. Simon was a happy, sweaty birthday boy.
Simon loved being the goalie and kicking. He did some drop kicking like a goalie does and he was pretty good at it. We didn't open any presents during the party; we brought them home and we started opening them in the afternoon after the party. Simon opened presents and played with each one before moving on to the next present. He opened the last present from the party on Monday evening! He has had a wonderful birthday.
Lately when I try to change Lillian's diaper, she flips around all over the changing pad while yelling "Helpful! Helpful!" So the other day I handed her a book to distract her. I expected her to just wave it around and maybe tell me it was "Hopapop" a few times. I was surprised when she instead opened it up and started narrating what she saw on the pages. After watching her for a few minutes I started taking a video... sadly I missed when she said "Fall... wall... OH NO!!!" and "NO Pat! Ouch!", but there's still some cute stuff here.
Both kids playing together nicely is happening more and more often. This is pretty long and just a day in the life sort of video -- an everyone likes each other day, not a fighting all the time day. \
