Cowgirl Party and Hot Tub Swimming

The kids have been excited all week for Lola's cowgirl birthday party at Jump Around. We got all fired up to do a craft project today, so we went to the craft store and loaded up on supplies and made a little tote bag for the birthday girl. I think it's so cute!

My kids have place their orders for tote bags. (We're so very Public Radio!) This project is spilling into next week, which is ok since TB is out of town and we only have to clean everything up one hour before he comes home and he'll never know that we let everything (i.e. dishes, laundry, picking up, eating healthy, etc.) slide to just make stuff and messes.

The kids climbed and bounced and played for two hours like it was the best thing in the world. These great kids are grown up just enough to play nicely so the real grownup friends can stand around mostly talking to each other during these parties.

Jovie and Lola have birthdays within a week of each other. Lola's mom was the first person I told that I was expecting Jovie.

 I coaxed the kids home from the party by offering to let them swim in the hot tub. They are always so shocked at how nice I am when I suggest this. Since I decided that they are old enough to go in the hot tub with just my supervision instead of my company, I think they can swim in the hot tub everyday. I really will be the nicest mom ever.

Video of kids in hot tub: http://youtu.be/BZovYM6YaNk
The hot tub swimming conditions look a little treacherous: http://youtu.be/JqUj6syXXq8
More video of kids swimming: http://youtu.be/7djg_uvbnlk

         

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Crazy things the blondes have said lately:

I gave Jovie a piece of bread as she requested and in a genuine 'Thank you!' tone, said, "You look so elderly."

 

Looking at herself in the mirror with her arms pulled into her jammie shirt, "I lost my arm in the war. I lost my other arm in a harder war."

 

Discussing her costume for the cowgirl party at a bounce house, "I'll wear a little bandana around my neck." I said, "I don't think it's safe to wear something tied around your neck at a bounce house. It could get caught on something and choke you." Jovie thought about this for a while. "Real cowboys wear bandanas around their neck. That could get caught on a cactus or a cattle's horn. Maybe it's not a good idea for THEM to wear bandanas." We compromised with bandana ribbons around her pigtails.

A skinny guy with camo fatigues, cowboy boots and hat, and a bike was panhandling with a sign at the freeway exit on the way to the cowgirl birthday party. Ikey said, "That guy is wearing a camouflage jacket. Maybe he's a cowboy who's very important to the world." I assured him that that guy (every guy) is very important to the world.