For Charlie's birthday we did a dunk tank and a water balloon fight. I thought it would be 'dunk-the-dads', thing, but instead all the kids wanted to get dunked. I was totally wrong! I begged dads to get dunked so Carlos wouldn't have to spend 2 hours getting soaked in freezing cold water. Instead we ended up having parents dunking their kids. a bit cathartic I think....
It was chaos, but luckily we were contained on the Brent blacktop so I embraced the chaos. My dad was there and help with Sofia which was great because I'm sure I wouldn't have been able to keep track of her. She gets loose and just keeps going. I was hoping we'd do some relay races, but we only got through one race before all the kids left the ranks and jumped into the dunk tank. I turned around and almost all the kids were crammed IN the dunk tank. I was so mortified - it looked like a sure way for someone to drown. Luckily we had about 250 water balloons to draw them out. Unfortunately 250 water balloons apparently only lasts about 3.5 minutes! too funny. The whole thing was fun and a really good way to stay cool in 95 degree heat.
For Diego's party we had Batman come through the back entrance and all the kids were transformed into superheros themselves. The kids were very impressed that the real Batman actually knew Diego. I was just happy that Diego didn't cry - I thought for sure he would scream and cling on to me when Batman came there the door. I guess I can't be surprised that anyone dressing up as Batman is a bit quirky, but he certainly was quirky. He called me when he was outfront and asked if I could lend him a safety pin to hold up a cape....The whole thing was pretty funny. We had an awesome batman pinata to go with it along with my attempt to decorate the cake with Gotham City.
After Diego's party we got in the car and drove up to Philadelphia for my dad's birthday. We met the whole family at my dad's school Germantown Academy for some tennis, soccer, frisbee and track. Nothing beats playing a variety of sports on a beautiful afternoon on beautiful school grounds. Clearly my kids agree with me: when we finally piled back into the car to go to dinner I asked the kids if they had fun and Charlie said, "No - that wasn't fun, that was AWESOME." We got to see my mom's store which looks amazing and then back to GA for more tennis, soccer and races around the track.
I spent the last week in Atlanta and poor Carlos had to deal with three sick kids. It was insane. He gets major points for surviving.
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