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Eve’s Birthday Sleepover – Part 1

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Eve decided to have a sleepover birthday party this year and today was the day. In fact, today was a very busy day. We started with karate, as usual on Saturday, then Eve had to run a cookie booth with her Girl Scout troop. She was partnered with her buddy and they had fun. While they did that, Lex and I ran some secret birthday errands.

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Cookies for sale! You don’t see any cookies because they hadn’t fully set up yet, but I wanted to take a picture and get going so I didn’t wait for the actual cookies to appear. :)

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Crazy girls ready for birthday fun! 

After cookie time was over I picked up both girls and we headed to the aquatic center to start her birthday festivities. At karate I ran into the dad of one of Lex’s friends and we ended up making plans for his buddy to come swimming too. I had been so busy thinking about Eve’s party that I didn’t make plans for Lex, other than “tag along” plans. :) I’m glad his friend was able to join us.

Eve had invited three friends, but unfortunately one woke up sick this morning and couldn’t join the fun. Another came for swimming, but couldn’t join us for sleepover fun.

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Just hanging out, waiting for another friend to arrive.

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A wild crew!

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Handsome boys.

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Silly girls.

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Waiting for the bucket to drop…

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Splash!!

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All smiles. :)

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Three down the slide… I don’t think that’s allowed, but I won’t tell. :)

After everyone was tired of swimming we headed home for pizza and craft projects. With just one friend here it felt more like a playdate than a birthday party, but still fun.

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Eve was pretty excited to find balloons when we got home! (One of the birthday errands Lex and I took care of earlier in the day.)

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Balloon girl!

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Happy birthday to you! Birthday cupcakes for the party.

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I love this girl!

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Awesome cupcakes! I might write a whole separate blog post on the cupcakes alone.

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They went out to play and came back twenty minutes later covered in mud! Good times. They spent the next twenty minutes washing their feet and making soap beards on their faces.

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Later they did some painting. For some reason Eve was really set on painting bird houses with her friends. (we bought them at the store, for cheap, sorry dad!)

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Lex painted a cool lighthouse.

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At 8:30 I started to get them settled. Hoping maybe they would fall asleep. Silly me.

It is now 10:15 and they are still going strong. Just the two of them. I don’t know if four would have been better or worse. I’ve shut off the lights, taken away the glow sticks, and not sure what comes next. Other than another glass of wine and hoping they pass out soon!! My last trip up was because Eve broke a glow stick and got it all over her self. It’s non-toxic, so no worries, but she was scared. I got her cleaned up and changed and hoped maybe that would be the final straw, but alas, I hear them still going strong.

Luckily, tomorrow is a no-plans day! Well, maybe “luckily” isn’t quite the word since I totally planned it that way!!

A letter from the president

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So, last month Eve wrote a letter to the president and today she got a reply back! She was SO excited! She bounced around the kitchen and was shaking a bit when she opened it. I have no idea why so was so excited, but boy was she! She told me she told her classmates that she had written to the president and now she could bring in his response to share.

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The package contained a letter, a photo of Mr. Obama, a photo of the family, a few coloring and sticker sheets, and a few flyers about The White House and the art collection inside. It was a neat little package. She read the letter and hugged it to her chest. I had a hard time not laughing at her the whole time!

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Dear Mr. President, apparently you have a big fan in this little girl. :)

Sexting and NPR

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I was driving with Eve in the car the other day.  She was quiet so I decided to turn on the radio, something I rarely do with the kids in the car.  Usually we just listen to music CDs.  NPR’s “Wait, Wait, Don’t Tell Me” was on and that seemed innocent enough so I left it on.  After a few minutes they came to a question like this, “This guy (I forget his name) got in trouble for sexting while doing what?”  The answer turned out to be sexting while performing surgery and the panel got into a humorous conversation about what exactly that looks like.

Eve: “Mom, are they saying sexting, or texting?”
Me: “Texting.  They’re saying texting.”
Eve: (pause) “Oh.  That’s boring.  Can we put on some music?”
Me: “Yes we can!”

There is a time and a place for a conversation on sexting, but that was not it.  I think we need to have a conversation on sex first, then sexting!

The cookies are here!

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Eve is doing quite well with her cookie sales. She alternates between totally motivated and totally bored of the whole thing. She was eager to hit a goal of 350 boxes so she could get a little stuffy prize, but got bored and cold (it was cold when we were going door-to-door in January!) and decided 283 was enough. I agreed completely! The cookies came in this weekend and we realized just how many 283 really is!

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Counting cookies

 

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Daisy was intrigued.

 

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While Eve was at scouts, Lex and I organized the cookies. I like this bar chart arrangement.

 

 

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Daisy likes the cookies! Well, the boxes anyway. She is a very happy kitty with all these boxes around.

Today I picked the kids up at school and we delivered teacher orders. Then we went to Alan’s office and delivered work orders. Then we stopped at a friend’s house and delivered her cookie. The kids were all worn out! Eve rallied after dinner and delivered a few more boxes to our very local neighbors. Thursday we’ll be out (weather permitting) delivering around the neighborhood.

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This afternoon we delivered to school. Eve had lots of teacher sales. Everyone was happy to see her this afternoon! :)

This is fun, but I’ll be happy when it’s over. :)

Dear Mr. President

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Eve wrote a letter and drew two pictures for the President.  Unfortunately she sealed up the envelope before I saw any of them!  She said it was a drawing of him, a drawing of a beautiful bird, and a letter about the pictures. We found the address and she mailed it out.  Do you think Mr. Obama will write back?  :-)

Ninja girl breaks a board

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Today they had a “bring a buddy” event at karate. If you brought a buddy, you got to break a board at the end of class. Eve was pretty excited. She asked one of her friends to go and he was happy to give karate a try. At the end of class, she punched through a board! Afterwards one of the girls in the changing room commented on how Eve did a good job breaking the board. Eve told her it was easy, then the girl said it was easy if you have fists like Eve! She told Eve her fist went so fast it looked like a blur. I think that made Eve pretty proud. :)

Lex missed the event because he has volunteered to be on the stage crew for the 4th/5th play this week. He has two hours of practice every day after school. He’s pretty excited.

Girl Scout cookies

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I can’t believe I haven’t posted yet that Eve joined Girl Scouts. She has been doing it for a few months and absolutely loves it. She’s earned some badges and ironed them onto her sash all by herself. Apparently they don’t sew them any more. She’s done some experiments and made some new friends. She loves it. She also is eagerly selling Girl Scout cookies right now! She has set herself a lofty goal and is working hard to achieve it. If only the weather would be a little more cooperative for door-to-door canvasing! Let me know if you are interested in ordering any cookies. I can ship them anywhere! This year they have:

  • Savannah Smiles (lemony)
  • Trefoils (shortbread)
  • Do-si-dos (peanut butter sandwiches)
  • Samoas (coconut/caramel)
  • Tagalongs (peanut butter patties)
  • Thin mints (of course)
  • and Rah-Rah-Raisins (oatmeal raisin cookies, new this year!).

Each are $4/box. They also have gluten-free Toffee-tastic for those with allergies. Let me know if you’d like any. Eve says thank you.

Swim team

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For years now I have wanted Eve to join the swim team. She would be sooo good at it.  She is a strong swimmer, athletic, and competitive.  Perfect for swim team.  However, it is a big expense and time commitment, and she has had no interest so it hasn’t happened.  Until yesterday.

She came home last week and said she wanted to join the team.  I don’t know what changed in her mind, but suddenly she was interested.  I spent a few days researching when she could start (immediately), what the cost is (a lot) and when they practice (exact same times as karate, of course).  Yesterday we decided to go for a trial swim.  I really hoped she would like it.  Her best friend is on the team and Eve really needs more big muscle activity.  She has soooo much energy and nothing to do with it.

She was thrilled to be back in the pool.  We don’t have an aquatic center membership anymore and it has been a long time since she last swam.  Probably last summer, in a lake.  So she swam in the splash park with her friends for awhile, then headed over to the competition pool to join the team.

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When they were done they joined the next level team in the bleachers, with parents and others, for an announcement on the upcoming fundraiser swim-a-thon.  When that was over and she made it back to me she broke down into baby Eve.  She snuggled in tight and told me it was too hard.  She said she didn’t know what she was doing and it was so hard and she just wants to swim her way and not be told what to do, which has always been her main reason for not wanting to join.  I’m bummed, but not surprised.  She said she wants to swim more then maybe try again another time.   I wish it wasn’t so expensive.  I should probably get a membership again.  Swimming is so good for both of them and they love it.

Spaghetti dinner

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Eve requested spaghetti for dinner recently. In fact, she decided she remembered it is her favorite dinner and really, really wants it for her birthday.  I decided maybe we should have it again and tonight was the night!  Eve cooked the pasta and helped prepare the salad.  It came out soooo good!

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This makes me really happy.

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My tofu balls came out perfect!!!

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The obligatory dinner shot.

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Eve practicing her slurping.

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Doubles!

I don’t normally enjoy cooking dinner, but with Eve by my side it is much more fun.  And when she eats the meal too it makes it all worth the effort!