Birthday Party

Another Birthday party success! 9 Years old, I can't believe it. For some reason my parties don't stay to the normal 1-2 hours. Oh no, they just keep going and going.....I hate to stop the kids when they are having fun though.

This year "Pretty Pony Parties" came to entertain. Yep, I'm not a good entertainer at all. Normally these people bring ponies, but since the kids were a little older, they brought a horse. Then she called to tell me they were going to bring 2 horses. And they still stayed the hour and a half. She even brought them a little gift and card.

Afterwards we had lots of cake and ice cream.

Sydnee's turn...... After her friend Shannon rode, she wanted to be in charge. So they let her lead Sydnee around for a bit.

When Simon first went to get on the horse, he realized he had to climb "way up there" and decided that horses are "stupid" and he didn't need a dumb ole party anyway. That is his way of dealing with something he is either scared of or just doesn't want to do. But Olivia didn't hesitate to get up there.

But I turned my back and 5 min later he was up on that horse. I was thrilled. Heights aren't Simon's strong point. He will just avoid things if he thinks he may fail. But I praised him up and down. So he rode several rides and then even let Ethan ride with him. Ethan got a lot of rides because he was so small and just went along with who ever would take him.
Sydnee decided it was her turn. Shannon was chomping at the bit waiting until they would let her lead someone around by herself.

And she is getting her chance.

Aubrey and Haleigh were having a ball. I knew Aubrey loved horses, but had no idea Haleigh would enjoy it like she did.

And Simon up for one more ride.

Nothing like a nice group photo.

Birthday party here and gone

For starters, here is an update on Smokey. He is so funny. He seems to like to balance himself on backs of furniture. He will even wrap his arms around the wings on my wing back chair. Silly, tat.

Sydnee seems to have her skate board down now. She loves riding on it up and down the driveway.

Mike decided to let the kids see if they can drive the riding mower. Sure enough they did well. Simon was able to manipulate it between the fence and swing set. He grinned from ear to ear. Sydnee ran it straight through my iris beds. Mike was scared she was going to hit the house. But she made it through ok.

We had the birthday party and cookout. The day turned out to be beautiful! We couldn't have asked for anything better. We had several side dishes, burgers and hot dogs. Then of course after the cookout we had cake and ice cream. The kids loved their gifts and can't wait to spend their birthday money.

Sydnee and two of her friends were having so much fun in her room singing and dancing. I just wish the picture came out better.

Today, when I got up this morning at 6:45, Simon came up to me in the hallway completely dressed, from glasses to shoes. I think his motive was going to be able to play with his Nintendo DS sooner if he was up, dressed, fed and ready to go out the door. Hey, at this point, we'll do whatever works. Today they were supposed to wear a shirt that is the teachers favorite color.

We got a call from the rehab department to schedule Sydnee's casting. She will start this process on August 11. They mentioned July 7, but this would put her right in the middle of swimming season which she loves. So I decided that since it isn't an emergency, it wouldn 't hurt to wait until closer to school. This project will be a ways off now and we don't have to think about it for the summer. One down, one thousand to go.

I did find out some tax information today that we are looking at. We had heard that there are some benefits for school tuition for special needs children. I have to look closer into that and our accountant is as well. That would be a blessing.