David's 35th Birthday

The past couple of days have been very busy for us. It started with David's 35th birthday on Thursday. We got a special treat in having David work from home for the day. To keep it quiet for him for a couple of hours the kids and I headed off to Daniel's house. Daniel is a little boy that was in Savannah's preschool class this past year. For most of the year Savannah had a crush on him and I think he thought she was pretty cute too. He gave her a purple horse stuffed animal one day and it was so cute to witness the exchange. Anyway, Daniel's mom had invited all of the kids from the preschool class over for lunch so Savannah was so excited to see some of her old friends. And I was excited to see the moms! As we were driving over Savannah said, "Mom, you get to see your friends too. But you guys don't play games, do you?" We had a very close-knit preschool group last year and I was able to make many new friends. Throughout the summer we have gotten together for a bunch of activities and had a lot of fun together. I'm just hoping we can stay in touch.




Thursday evening Savannah had soccer practice which we all went to. Afterwards we came home for some dinner and then David opened presents. He got a book, a new movie, some pictures drawn by Savannah, a fry daddy (yummy tempura!), a traveling golf bag, money, and plenty of cards. It wasn't the most exciting birthday but I guess as we get older a birthday is almost like any other day.



Friday morning I walked into the kids' room to find them both awake but still in bed. Savannah complained of a sore throat so I went to feel her forehead. She was burning hot and so was Xander. They both had temperatures of over 101...so Friday was a "watch movies and stay in bed" day. The hardest part was keeping them down because once the medicine would kick in Xander would exclaim, "I feel better!" and want to run around and play. We fought fevers all day long as well as tried to keep both kids away from Noah so he wouldn't get whatever they had. Savannah's elementary school had an Open House Friday night where one gets to go meet the teacher and see the classroom. Savannah wanted to go so badly so we went for a couple of minutes. Her teacher seems very nice and Savannah's room looks so cute. Saturday morning the kids were still fighting fevers so, although it was Opening Day for Savannah's soccer, I only took her to the picture part. She had a scrimmage but I didn't let her play. It turned out to probably be a good thing anyway because it was so incredibly hot and humid! The mothers were starting to complain at the picture-taking that the soccer league was allowing the kids to play games in this kind of weather. The poor little girls were even sweating as they waited for their pictures to be taken. Savannah's first game is September 8 and I can't wait...she has the same jersey number as I always had...#4. And her team name is the Grasshoppers. (All of us moms were pushing for The Kiwis but the girls wanted The Grasshoppers.)