After returning home from Tucson, we celebrated Scott's birthday that weekend. He was one lucky guy to have his birthday fall on a Saturday. The boys and I woke up and worked on his birthday banner and snuck off to Dunkin' Donuts to grab breakfast donuts and coffee before Scott woke up. Since Scott didn't want a cake or pie this year, we sang to him and lit a candle in his apple fritter.
Evan actually had a birthday party for a classmate of his at the Ann Arbor Hands On Museum that morning. Scott and Sean stayed home and hung out, playing with Legos while we were gone. It was Evan's first "friend" party that he attended without Sean and he was a bit unsure of himself for a while. It didn't help that the only person he knew at the party was the birthday kid. None of the other classmates were there. We made do and enjoyed ourselves. The cake was my favorite part, as it was from Holiday Market. Evan liked making a volcano with the leader from the museum.
Later that evening, we asked our neighbor's daughter to babysit the boys so we could go out to celebrate Scott's birthday. We went to Ironwood for dinner and drinks and walked over to Sean O'Callaghan's for another drink before heading back home. It was a fun evening and the boys did great with Avery! We'll be asking her to babysit again!
The following morning we took the boys to Bode's diner for breakfast, but they were bummed that no trains came by as we were eating. We met up with Scott's family for his birthday bowling that we do every year. Sean bowled the best game of his life - a 104 with minimal bumper use! He actually looked like he knew what he was doing. Evan? Not so much, but we still had fun. We had a late lunch/early dinner next door at Buddy's Pizza. Yum!
The following week was a busy one. We had a few nice weather days, which had us outside as much as possible. I got two runs in Monday and Tuesday outside. Evan worked on mastering the monkey bars at the park one evening. He still has some work to do, but he'll get there soon!
I had parent-teacher conferences that Thursday evening and of course, the timing was awful as I came down with a nasty cold. I put in for a sick day Friday, but we ended up getting a snow day! While I was excited to not have to use an absence, it put a wrinkle in my plans of sleeping all day when the boys had a snow day too. Poor Scott went off to work while we stayed home. I survived all day with them and they let me get some rest, but I was sure happy when Scott came home.
Last weekend was filled with swim class (make-up) on Friday night, swim class on Saturday morning, me trying to get healthy, open gym at Splitz to get some energy out, Chuck E. Cheese on Sunday with some friends from school, and some shopping. I actually got to escape on Sunday for an hour and a half in the morning before I took the boys to Chuck E. Cheese to shop at Marshall's. Like literally browse and stop to sniff all the candles, shopping. It was amazing! And I realized that our weekends have been too booked to be able to enjoy such a simple thing as browsing in a store.
This past week was all about surviving. It was a five day week (we haven't had one of those in a while). I was still getting over a cough, which was a side effect of my lovely cold. In hindsight, I probably should have gone to urgent care as I'm quite certain it was/is in my chest. Scott had parent-teacher conferences Thursday evening. Catechism and piano lessons kept Sean busy. But, Friday finally came around and I was excited for another low-key weekend!
Last night the boys watched Casper on Netflix. We made popcorn and enjoyed just hanging out at home. Today, they had swim and we ran some errands to get Sean equipment for baseball that will start in a month. Once Upon a Child and Play It Again Sports were good to us today! Sean is definitely set for both baseball and this summer with the haul we brought home today. The kids played outside for a bit doing a fossil dig and helping Scott get the wood in the backyard organized and ready for a fire tonight. We did some St. Patrick's Day crafts and watched Moana after dinner.
Tomorrow we'll do our grocery shopping/Trader Joe's run and maybe go to open skate at the Artic Edge. I tried talking the boys into going skiing with me tomorrow since the lift tickets are discounted this late in the season and we only went out once this year, but it's not looking too promising.
We're surprising the boys with a trip to the Great Wolf Lodge in Sandusky this Wednesday. They have half days on Wednesday and Thursday that we were going to take days off of work to stay home with them, so we figured this would be a good time to go and a much cheaper time to go than on a weekend or during spring break like we had originally planned. I'm hoping they'll be excited to come home at lunch time on Wednesday and find the car packed and ready to go! I'm excited to do something fun and break out of these winter blues that I seem to be stuck in. This month has been disappointing with the cold temps and snow. I was hoping we'd start warming up a bit. Hurry up spring!
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