Birthday Recap and Other Weekend Activities

As you know from my last post, it was DJ's birthday on Friday. To "celebrate" I got Jayden from day care and went to DJ's work to surprise him with balloons and a special card made out of candy. We also put a little banner up on DJ's desk, which he promptly took off as soon as we left. He said he doesn't like the attention... I meant to take a picture of everything but I completely forgot, darn it! I did get a little video of Jayden playing with the balls though. It looks like he has a mullet but I promise his hair is just staticky. I find it particularly funny when DJ tries to calm it down but to no avail.

DJ was really surprised when we showed up and I think Jayden liked the deviation from his routine. That night I made special raspberry dark chocolate brownies for dessert. Mmmm. Surprisingly there are still some left over today!

We had a really fun time on Saturday as a family. We went swimming in the morning, came home and had lunch, took a good looong nap (or at least Jayden did) and then, because Jayden took such a long nap and didn't wake up till 4:30 pm, we decided to go bowling that night! I'll post a few videos of Jayden's first bowling experience tomorrow. He had a blast and by the time we bowled two games, we were all tired and ready for bed.

On Sunday we had plans to go to church in the evening because we had signed up to help with dinner cleanup (the church hosts a dinner every Sunday night for the college students) but I think the whole day's routine was thrown off since we didn't go to church in the morning. By the time we were about ready to head to church , DJ and I decided that only he would go because Jayden had only taken about a 30 minute nap earlier that morning, had woken up at 5:45 am that day and was starting to show signs of tiredness already at 4:00 pm. I had visions of a toddler screaming his way through church, on into dinner and well into the clean-up, and knew that I would feel horrible for keeping him up so late when he hadn't even napped, so unfortunately DJ had to handle clean-up by himself. Looking back, I have no idea what we were thinking even signing up for that particular event knowing that it would fall right around Jayden's bedtime. Now we know! So Sunday was a bit off but it was still a good day and it ended with McDonalds ice cream! Yum!