Kicking Myself Into Action, or Ethan's Birthday

I've been a little MIA this January as I was waiting for meds to start working.  Luckily they seem to have kicked in and I am starting to have enough energy to  tackle the projects I have unfinished from the last..ummm... year and a half I have felt like crud.  One of those things was our photo album.  As I was working on it I realized that the blog makes compiling the fun memories a lot easier, and really, that is why I blog, so I should kick myself in the rear and get back to it.

Ethan's Birthday
Ethan's birthday was early in January and it was a lot of fun.  We were still recovering from Christmas fun so all our decorations were still up.  Livi insisted Ethan's presents needed to be under the tree because, well, that's were presents go.

He ended up with 3 different Pokemon games and he was pretty happy about it!  No throwing presents saying "That's a crappy gift!" (thanks Andrew for that gem)

I told Ethan he could play as many video games as he wanted on his birthday so he hurried and got ready for school and played for a few minutes then.  I think he wished we got up earlier so he would have had more time.

For dinner Ethan wanted bacon.  Just bacon.  We convinced him he needed more than just meat so we had a brinner of eggs, bacon, toast and root beer.  Dinner of champions.

I told him I would make him what ever cake he wanted, that I would decorate it however he desired.  I said I would shape it into a Pokemon if he wanted.  He didn't.  He wanted a plain chocolate cake with plain chocolate icing. 

Because it he turned an even number he was due for a friend party (gag).  Eric thought it would be a GREAT idea to ask Ethan if he wanted a sleep over without asking me first.  Of COURSE he said "yes."  We invited 5 friends to spend the night thinking 1, hopefully 2, wouldn't be able to come.  I know I wouldn't let Ethan spend the night at a friends house if I didn't know the parents VERY well.  No such luck.  All 5 boys (plus Madi for Ella) could come.  It was actually a lot of fun, but they are super high energy boys.  We had pizza, cupcakes and bowls and bowls of candy.  Poor planning on our part.  We made the boys go downstairs to sleep around 10 but were going strong around 12 when I finally gave up and went to bed.  Ethan says he think they went to sleep around 1am.  Then one of the boys woke up at 5:30 and ran upstairs to play Skylanders on the Wii.  He kept yelling "Die, Die, Die-de-die die" at the top of his lungs so we were all up by 6am.

The boys in action.

  It wouldn't have been too bad to get so little sleep, except Ethan and Caleb had a basketball game on Saturday at 9am.  Eric had to coach so we were all up and at 'em earlier than usual.  We were so worn out that everyone (except Ethan oddly enough) took naps that afternoon

Including Tonks who was so worn out from having 6 little boys to play with that she slept for 24 hours straight.