Weekend Update

On this beautiful Monday I had the realization that the trio have been out of school for slightly over a month now. We are kicking off week five of summer break, and we are inching a little closer to the end. Instead of dwelling on this, I'm going to Scarlett O'Hara the calendar and think about that tomorrow... or sometime after William George's birthday in a few weeks.

We good weekend. George and I picked up the girls Friday, and they were exhausted from camp. In addition to camp, they had a friend sleep over Wednesday night, and although they all three did really well about going to bed at a reasonable hour, it was a little later than usual. On Thursday, the duo had a daddy/daughter date night when the friend from Wednesday and her dad. Of course, George crashed along for the fun. Although the evening was pretty tame and ended at a reasonable hour, they were tired on Friday from all the day time and evening fun.

We picked up Grammie Saturday for a visit. The trio played with Grammie, and we watched movies. For dinner, we took Grammie to one of her favorite restaurants, situated beautifully on Lake Guntersville. We had a great meal while looking out over the lake. The next day we went to church, took Grammie home, and then the trio visited with Gran and Poppa. They love a weekend with grandparent double billing! Skip and I had a nice lunch and then ran a few birthday-related errands for George's birthday (July 12th). George has been very low key about birthday plans so far. He doesn't want a cake... he doesn't want a bounce house... and he doesn't want a water slide. He has rejected all proposed themes, and he is heading toward a fairly generic fifth birthday. He had a large party last year so we had been planning something smaller this year, but we weren't planning on it being a non-event.

But so while Skip and I were planning some things out I had an epiphany. Actually, I saw a stuffed Nemo (whom he loves, upon recent discovery), and I had the brilliant plan to incorporate Dory as the centerpiece of his party. Now, mind you, I was very hot. Our church service that morning was held in the gym which is normally fine, but was about 80 degrees yesterday. Then, we were outside for about 20 minutes at Skip's parents, which isn't long except for the sweltering heat. For some reason, we just never cooled off. While standing in an aisle at Wal-Mart, I said/asked the following to Skip:

"Are you sweating? I am SWEATING! I'm just standing here in an air conditioned building... sweating!"

I blame the heat on our unclear thinking. By the time we left that particular store, I had the whole birthday planned out. We would get him a stuffed Nemo and Dory... we would have the party (lunch/cake/presents) and then go see the movie. I even picked up Dory plates and accessories.

So walking to the car, I asked another question:

"Wait. Is Dory a girl? It is, isn't it? Dory is a girl!!!"

&%$#!

The wretched heat! We have two words for you... Nova Scotia. We were looking at the map and tourism information last night. We think we would like it there.

So now I have to take the Dory stuff back. Now, if you have a son or boy in your family who loves Dory, that is totally fine with me. In fact, I applaud it. We aren't super gender specific around here either. At this point, however, William George would care if his birthday theme was based on a girl character. He just would, and since the day is his celebration, we are scrubbing Dory.

You would think this plan would be salvageable by inserting a boy-centric movie, but he vetoed the movie plan altogether.

After the birthday errands (most of which were productive/successful), we picked up the monkeys and came home to prepare for their camp session this week.

How was your weekend?