Birthday Weekend

I’m still catching my breathe from my birthday weekend. Ellie is a busy kid...

Friday night started with Es theater arts camp performance where the kids showed off what they had been working on for the past three weeks. Each kid has a speaking role and does a group tap dance, group stage fight choreography, and singing in an all-camp chorus. But, a few campers are selected to show off their skills with an actually cheorgraphed fight scene or movement (cirque du soleil like stuff). And E for picked for both! She loves the movement class so it was extra special to be picked to show off her skills with her partner. In her scene she, with a group, acted out a scene from the Avengers. She technically was playing two roles and had to say the words, “thermonuclear astrophysics” which is tough to annunciate and project in a theater when you are a kid. 

This is Thirty Seven

Birthday eve

Someone made me a cake.

Face

A year ago, today, Ellie fell and bruised her face.

She currently has a rug burn on her forehead. And the bruise under her eye from when she tried to lock her brother in a cabinet and put her face by the door and Calvin kicked it open, well that’s looking much better.

But those fake bruises from theater arts camp, those are cool.

Birthday party bonanza

Saturday was crazy. We had two different birthday parties for Calvin’s friends back-to-back. But, we had nothing else going on and Nick was out of town so it kept us busy...and exhausted. 

The first party was at a playground and had a scavenger hunt and vegan cheese pizza with a gluten free crust. Calvin was very happy to be able to have pizza (the special pizza was not for him but for the birthday boys aunt, who also loves olives so that’s what I had as well). Of course Ellie made up an American Ninja Warrior course and tomaught the little kids, including her brother, how to climb a pole. 

The second party was a true SoCal experience. A birthday party for a friend who is the child of celebrities in the music business and a pool party no less. The attendees were school friends and Hollywood peeps. I’m not great at recognizing celebrities, that’s why I have Nick around, but I did recognize a few faces. Turns out celebrity kids are more greedy with the piñata than kids who go to a Montessori preschool. Also, Ellie was the one who broke the piñata...but only after Calvin caused some legit damage and got several oohs and ahhs from the spectators about his batting abilities. One non-preschool parent actually said, “that’s a professional baseball player in the making right there!”...because Calvin needed more confidence in his little swagger. But the dad of the birthday boy had seen Calvinnplay tee-ball and also commented that maybe Calvin shouldn’t have been allowed to have an early turn as one of the younger kids...

Incredibles 2

I loved the Incredibles. So I was super pumped for Incredibles 2. With Nick out of town, a Sunday afternoon movie seemed like a great idea. 

Nick was kind enough to purchase tickets for us with reserved seating and fully reclining seats. The movie was great.

Calvin came to work

Today Calvin didn’t have school. So on his first day of summer, I took him to work with me for the morning. Of course we had to have special breakfast first. At work he played with Legos (with one of my coworkers), read a scaffold and access periodical, played video games on the iPad, drew on the whiteboard, wrote some sentences for me, and reorganized some of my drawers.

Ellie learned how to do bruises with stage makeup at theater arts camp.