As usual our weekends are quite full. There was a pre-comp meet at our gym but since Mimi is now on the team she did not have to compete which in turn made her super, super happy because she was then able to attend Kate and Ethan's birthday party at their house. This is a family who has not one but two sets of twins. First is Kate and Ethan who just turned seven. Then there is Owen (boy) and Avery (girl) who are 3 years of age......I think.....not sure. When I heard that the party would be at their house I most definitely that they (parents) had totally lost control of all their senses. I must say though that when I dropped Mimi off at their house, I was totally and completely surprised at how well all of 30-35 kids were behaving. They had everything so very well organized and planned out well. There were 3 parents that had about 10 kids each doing a different game at the same time. I guess it does pay to be a teacher at times. Michelle owns her own pre-school and Jason works as a schoolteacher himself. So while Mimi was at the party, I had time to go out and buy more plants for our backyard as I as still in the process of sprucing it up a bit. When the party was over it was playtime for Mimi and Blake. And play they did. Then they both asked if Mimi could sleep over at his house that night and so they had a sleepover. Apparently our sweet Mimi is not a good sleepover guest in that I mean when she sleeps she sometimes thrashes around which in turn wakes up Blake. At 2 in the morning Keri says that Blake came crying into her room saying that Mimi kept waking him up. Unless Mimi changes, heaven help the person she ends up with (much) later in life.
Yesterday afternoon while dad took both Mimi and Blake out to see the movie "How To Train A Dragon", Keri hosted a Miche Bag and Cookie Lee party. I not much into the jewelry but I do love nice handbags. Since I already had the bag, all I really needed was another shell.
When I arrived at Keri's, what I thought I saw wasn't really what I thought at all. I thought I saw a real baby on the sofa but what it was, was a baby doll for Izzy. Izzy lives next door to Keri and she is now 15 years old. Her mom Lisa was there for the party. Izzy has a project to do and that is to care for this doll as if it was her own baby. This doll is specialized in that it acts like a real baby and you have to care for it like a real baby. You have to figure out what each cry means. Lisa says that it even crys at 2 or 3 in the morning for its feedings. Then when the party was over and we were all sitting around with our wine, Izzy was caring for her baby and the ladies proceeded to talk about their birthing horror stories and I looked over to Izzy just in time to see the scared look on her face as they were relaying these horror stories. I think that they scared her straight. Next thing I knew, our Tazmanian devil came home. She still leaves her stuff all around the house. Here, there and everywhere. She cried like a banshee when we told her it was time to leave. "I wanna stay at Blake's house!!!" she cried and cried. That was when I knew she was tired, because when there is a sleepover, NOBODY SLEEPS. We will be going to bed early again tonight.
