October is here and we had a great week!
The boys were busy with school, video games, coloring, playing outside (we had a few nice days and a few cold days), our last tennis lesson, very fancy birthday lightsabers from Brad and Angela, and being excited for Xander’s birthday party.
Saturday the day finally arrived for Xander’s Roblox themed 7th birthday. I can’t believer our baby is 7! Roblox is an online video game that allows you to complete a variety of tasks and be in different worlds. I don’t totally understand it, but Xander and Augustus both enjoy it. We started our party crafting our own avatars- coloring, glueing, and decorating. From there we moved outside (luckily the weather cooperated) and did 10 different games. If you participated, you earned 1-2 “robux” which are the money in the game. I had made stickers and the kids were super into collecting them and sticking them on their scorecards. We did a variety of games including cone smash (smash the ice cream cone and then complete the challenge written on small paper inside), team keepy-uppy (keep a beach ball in the air for 10 hits- they didn’t even get close, but they still got their sticker), ring toss, bean bag toss, shoot a target with a nerf gun, egg in spoon (actually ping pong ball in spoon, and then a more challenging version where the spoon was in their mouth), balloon between their knees and then they had to pop it, cheeseballs onto Nate’s head, and dig the worm out of pudding (they had the option of using their face or holding a spoon in their teeth to dig it out that way- Gussie was the only one who did it face first).
We had robo-theme snacks half way through and once all the games were done, they got to use their robux to buy prizes. I wish I had remembered to take a photo of the prizes, but they were VERY excited to “buy” the best prizes! We had ice cream cake and then the kids ran around and played soccer and in the playroom until 3pm. We had some fun treat bags and then everyone headed home!
Success. My favorite picture from the day had a wall of parents photographing their children. I got several nice text messages after the party. …However… it’s never simple when it comes to kiddos… About 1.5 hours into a 3 hour party, Xander’s eye was all of a sudden really goopy. I knew instantly that it was pink eye (I was a camp director- I know stuff like this) but I was giving the universe the benefit of the doubt it was just junk in his eye. I cleaned it out and crossed my fingers. But a few minutes later, it was goopy again. Dang it. So as I’m leading the kids through the next game, I’m frantically weighing my options in my head. Do I tell all of the very excited kids that the rest of the games, the prizes, the cake, etc were done and party is over, or do I go on with the show?! Since they had already all been exposed and there wasn’t really any physical contact ahead, I decided to continue. I’m still crossing my fingers that no children end up with pink eye. Despite the communicable disease, Xander had a lot of fun.
The party ended and I was EXHAUSTED. But being a mom means that after entertaining kids for 3 hours, you are rewarded by making a special dinner for the birthday boy. And then after that, you get to take said birthday boy to after hours urgent care for drops. Once I handed him my phone, he was relatively calm about our evening field trip. We got the drops and headed home. What a Saturday!
Today the boys ran around and played with Sam and Abby for most of the day. Nate and the boys went to Harvey’s house to watch football for a few hours and I organized and baked. When the boys got home, we decorated the front of our house for Halloween (yes, I did find bulldog skeletons, thank you very much) and then it was more playing outside with Sam and Abby.
We’ve got an average week ahead and I am so glad!
