We had another busy weekend. Imagine that! First it was Tommy's last soccer game on a cold COLD morning.
The kids really did pretty well. We actually purposefully scored a goal!! Tommy did great when he was goalie.
He kicked it really well several times to start off.
I didn't get one of the good ones on video. But this is a classic example of one of our soccer games. The goalie kicks it off and one of our teammates tries to kick it into the wrong goal. Haha! At the very beginning of the video, you can hear a set of sports parents yelling at their little girl. They got a little mean. It was ridiculous. It was our first experience of bad sports parents screaming at their kids the entire game. Since she's 5, she immediately shut down and stopped wanting to play and she was one of our best players. It was pretty sad. So parents, please don't yell at your kids. This is supposed to be fun.
He blocked all but one goal. He really did great. He loves that position.
Charlotte had a great time because the siblings of Tommy's other teammates were giving her candy. Ha! Sugar rush!
She also found a pair of party favor sunglasses in my car. They look great on her. They've only been stepped on a few times.
After the game, we handed out treat bags with tiny little trophies, bouncy soccer balls, soccer tattoos, and candy. The kids loved them. It was definitely a learning season but at least they had a little fun too.
Right after the party, we ate lunch quickly and headed over to Buccaneer Bay for the first birthday party of the day. His buddy Noah was in his class last year. They split the kids into two classes and Noah is in the other preschool class. But he still wanted Tommy at his party. How nice! I told Noah's mom that Tommy had a soccer game that morning and that we would be late. I didn't realize we would be almost 2 hours late. Whoops.
But luckily, we still had an hour of party time left! Tommy has never been here before and we live a mile away. He was a little apprehensive of everything at first. He tried the little slide first. Whee!
Then he tried the bigger slide. He did not realize what he would be getting into. Water on his head??? NOOOOO!!! Haha! He recovered quicker than I thought he would.
There was so much stuff to do!
What Tommy and Noah spent the most time doing was trying to climb up the slide. Luckily, there was hardly anyone there so they could take over the park. They had so much fun together. It was so cute.
Side story: So Noah's mom is young and she was wearing a bikini in the pool. She, Tommy, and Noah were playing around and Tommy grabbed her bikini top string in the back and untied it. Nothing showed but she had to get out of the pool to fix it. I was mortified. I gave him a stern 'talking to' and then went over to her to apologize. She said, "Well maybe this wasn't the best choice of swimsuit for a kid's pool party." Haha! She was right about that.
After we got back from Noah's party, we headed down to Westfield for Max and Reese's Donut birthday party. How fun is that? They had a donut truck frying up fresh donuts right there at their house. The sad part is that we missed the donut truck. Waaahhh waahhh. We were also an hour and 45 minutes to their party. Bummer. But we still had donuts! Yum! Charlotte was a big fan!
The kids also had fun playing.
They played in the bounce house, on the swingset, on the playing field. They had a great time!
We stayed pretty late at their house. I felt bad that we were so late and then we stayed late. We are the worst guests ever! But we haven't seen the Goldmans in a long time. We really wanted quality time with them!
Ashley was so kind to put up with us. She even offered to make our kids dinner and put up with our high maintenance requests to search through her cabinets to find something for Tommy to eat. Almond butter and jelly for the win!
Almond butter sandwich smile!
We took off and headed home after that extremely busy day. We couldn't do anything else the rest of the weekend because we were so exhausted. What a fun weekend!
We headed down to Carmel for Max and Reese's birthday party at an Aquatic Center.
Tommy was pumped!! You can't tell from his serious look but he was ready to swim.
They were smart and got the candle blowing and singing out of the way first so we could all go swimming. This picture cracks me up. Max is stoked! I love his hat.
Tommy and Dada went swimming so Charlotte hung out in the party room in the chair with Megan. Too cuties. Lindsay said, "Say Cheese!" I'm pretty sure Megan said cheese. I was mucho impressed.
Tommy looked like he was having a great time on the slide so I decided to bring Charlotte out to the pool.
I love this little skirted suit. Too cute.
This is a great picture. I went to take Charlotte's picture and she promptly turned to me and let the bird fly. Andrew cracked up. Nolan is photobombing with the best face possible. Perfection in a picture.
There was a shallow water area the babies enjoyed. Especially Charlotte!
She was terrifying. She has no fear whatsoever. She wanted to dive right in!
But she had a really great time with Dean!
They were best buds for a hot minute.
Tommy also had a really great time. He is holding all three of his party favors in this picture. A new pair of shades for the ride home. Thanks for the great time, Goldmans! Happy Birthday, Kiddos!
We had some friends over a few Saturdays ago. Gorskis and Goldmans came over after we finished our new deck (more pictures to come on that). Too bad it was too cold to enjoy it.
So we stayed inside instead! Tommy and Max had fun watching Frozen on big bouncy balls.
Seriously. Could not get enough.
Charlotte and Reese had fun together too! Playtime! Charlotte's bow looks especially large in that picture for some reason. Wow.
Tummy time!
Now's it's time for a BOWDOWN!! I love the look on Reese's face. Too cute.
I didn't get a picture of the Gorski kids. I was so sad. Grady and Nolan were there too, I promise.
Great times with families, y'all. Thanks for coming over!
Saturday we attended Max's 4th birthday party which was at a super fun community center with a giant pool.
Charlotte got all dressed up for her big day out.
Isn't this pool awesome?
Andrew and Tommy were immediately kicked out because his arm floaty thingies weren't up to standard. He got a life jacket off the rack and was back to swimming right away.
I'm not even sure what's going on here but it was one of 3 pictures I took of them in the pool so I had to post.
The reason I didn't get many pictures is because the moms had several babies to take care of in the party room while the dads swam with the big kids. There were two pregnant moms within a week and a month of their due dates. There were 4 babies under the age of one. There was one between 1 and 2. Then there were tons of big kids and I totally lost count of how many were there. 8? 9? I have no clue. I just kept track of my 2 and that was enough.
The two youngest babes were Charlotte and Reese and Oh NO! They showed up wearing the same headband!! Awww is it time for Who Wore It Better??? It's a Baby Tie! :)
Here's Nolan who is the one between 1 and 2. He was hilarious! He'll have a little brother in a month! He kept saying BABEE! BABEE!!! I haven't been around a toddler boy of that age in awhile. They crack me up!
You can see the birthday boy Max on the right with his towel in the party room.
We sang Happy Birthday to Max. His face was priceless. Look at that smile!
Here's Jack and Nora. Jack is seriously never NOT Spiderman. He LOVES to dress up all the time.
This is Audrey. I have to post her picture because I'm so amazed at her curls. Big giant ringlets. So cute!
Here's Tommy having a great time! RUN! There's open space!
Finally here's Tommy leaving with his treat bag. All the kids played together really well. We had a really good time. It's so cool to see our kids grow up together. At least one marriage is going to come from all these kids hanging out all the time. We're just sure of it. ;-)
