Tuesday, July 30, 2013

Hunter is 8!

Hunter had an awesome birthday!  I realize it is almost August and I am just now getting to blog about his birthday in May but at least I'm getting to it nonetheless!  Now let me fish around in my brain for those details...

We got him a basketball hoop (along with Noni & Nona) for his big gift since he was on a team this year and enjoyed it.  He couldn't wait to open the big box.  We made him wait until Daddy got home from work.  He was so excited!  We sang to him after dinner and enjoyed cupcakes.  He got his big cake at the party, which was two Sundays later because Memorial Day falls in there and we thought people would be out of town or busy so we waited to have a good turnout.

For the first time we did not have a home party for him.  We took him to play Lasertag with some friends and neighborhood kids.  The theme was Angry Birds.  I didn't do much other than make the invitations and order the cake.  It was nice but I felt weird like I needed to be doing more.  I always go all out for the parties and this year felt really bizarre.  Regardless they all had a blast, including Tyler, Brody & Greyson who hung out with Nona in the game area.


Monday, July 22, 2013

My morning

This morning Hunter caught me hiding out in my bed reading.  I hadn't even gotten out of bed yet and John told me Hunter and Brody were awake and downstairs.  I could hear they were just playing so I grabbed my book-club book for the month (Gone Girl...amazing if you haven't read it) and started in.  A girl has deadlines.  Book Club is tomorrow and I have 130 pages left.

A few minutes go by and Hunter creeps into my bed, lies down next to me and says, "Mah-ahhmmm!" (that's Mom but with a tiny bit of a whine to it) "Why are you up here reading?"
Me:  You caught me!
Hunter:  But I'm hungry!
Me:  Well then go make yourself some boo-bah (code word for breakfast in our house.  When the twins were little they called breakfast "boo-bah."
Hunter:  (very dramatically) "But I make HORRIBLE boo-bah!  You make the best boo-bah."
Me:  "Ok, what kind of boo-bah you want?"
Then Brody pipes in with, "I want ICE CREAM BOO-BAH!"

Then a little while later when I was on the stairs coming down Hunter comes up to me with the phone and says (again, dramatically), "Brody had the PHONE!"
Me:  "Ok."
Hunter:  "Not Ok!  He could have CALLED 911!"
Brody:  "I didn't call 911!"
Hunter:  "Brody, you have a 61% chance of calling 911!"