Birthday Time!

G-man turned 8 on Monday. We spent the day showering him with attention and he just ate it up. He asked for everything he could think of and rarely got a "no" which he loved. Yestereday, we had 2 parties. 1 in the afternoon for the friends and one in the evening for the family and then some of the friends stayed overnight. We love to do up birthdays big in our family. It's kind of our thing. We love making the birthday people feel as special as they are to us and G's birthday is dear to our hearts also because he shares it with Grandma Joni so we have two very special people to honor on that day.

So yesterday turned into a massive sugar fest. As in diabetics in training sugar fest. It was obscene. We started our day by going to Costco to pick up the cupcakes that we ordered. These are no ordinary cupcakes. They're almost as big as a child's head and have about a pound of buttercream frosting on each one. The very second I put them into the cart the babies came alive with begging "biiiite? meeeee? peeeeeese? hmmmmmm? biiiiiiite?" They were asking and signing and turning themselves inside out. It was adorable. I put the cupcakes under the cart and grabbed a box of Cheese-It to appease them which worked surprisingly well.

We get home and start preparing for the party. The bounce house had arrived on Monday and some preliminary bouncing had been done. The rain stopped in the late morning and the older boys went in with towels to try and dry it out as best they could (M concentrated on the ceiling). Then set out glasses and 2 pitchers of water, put the babies down for naps (they actually cooperated nicely) and we were good to go for party time! We started off the party with some bouncing and general playing, then on to sno-cones, then more playing to work off that sugar and then head-sized cupcakes followed by more playing but no puking...impressive. That party ended and I had 1 1/2 hours to reset and prepare dinner for the second round. I managed to get that all done and the other guests arrived and commented on the ginormous cupcakes.

We did a kebob bar which turned out to be awesome. Everyone built their own and Tim manned the grill in a very manly way keeping everyone's kebobs in order and none burned which is more than would have happened if I had been manning the grill. He'd agree. Then it was time for massive cupcakes but most of the kids opted either for a half or skipped the cupcake in favor of a sno cone. I was impressed by their self-control...something that not all of us adults exhibited to be sure! After all of the partying and all of the eating and all of the sugar loading, I was exhausted. The babies were exhausted but wired so they didn't zonk out until after 10:00 but we all slept hard for 10 hours.

G successfully turned 8, the babies learned how to jump (the definition of adorable) and a good and sugary time was had by all. Happy Birthday my little man!