T Boy is FOUR!

Well, well. The holidays have pretty much come and gone and I feel like my head is still spinning.  I haven’t even sent out a Christmas card yet this year. It may be a New Years card. Or, there may be no card this year. Life goes on, I guess.

But let’s rewind a bit.  Two weekends ago was Wyatt’s fourth birthday party. Fun was had by all!

Ah, my sweet four year old boy.

See, I was planning on a LEGOs birthday party.  A nice, quiet, relaxing day at our house with a couple of family members and a few friends over.  Then, about 1 week before the day of the party, Wyatt tells me, “I want a pool party. A pool party with a ship.” Well, those are tall orders to fill, especially when Bismarck has no pool with a ship (like Fargo does-where he got this idea). And especially with only one week to plan.  So being the good mother I am, I drove around town one day to find a place to have a kids birthday party. With a pool.  A kiddie pool. In 1 week. And a ship.

I didn’t find the ship, but the pool party I did!

Ther may not have been a ship, but there WAS a big slide…..

AND video games…

AND pizza, and root beer, and cupcakes, and M &Ms, and chips….

AND presents…

And twin baby girls eating cupcakes on lawn chairs….

And Wyatt posing like Dr. Evil…….

And, yes, I even put on a swimsuit. It was scary for all parties involved. But once I got there and looked around, I realized that all the girls in swimsuits were either age 10 and under, or moms, just like me.  So, I braved it.

Once the fun was over, and the children’s teeth were chattering from being in a pool for four hours, we packed up the mess and headed home.  That was it. Four hours, and my son’s first “real” birthday party was over.  Tear.

When I was still unearthing my house the following week, I discovered that we had forgotten to get out the PARTY HATS!!! What a disaster. So we wore them one night at dinner. It was just as fun.

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