Yeah, I suck

So I was talking to a friend on the phone today and she mentioned that I needed to look at something on her blog. I admitted then that I haven't been on blogger in over a week -- which everyone already knew. So I'm back. I didn't know whether to start from where I am now, or where was I was when I left off, so basically I'm just going to post what I have pictures of.

We last left off at the birthday party -- where all of Ellie's friends came dressed up. Nate was a little jealous that he didn't get to stay for the party and even more jealous that he didn't get to get dressed up. The next week, we saw the resurgence of the pink dress: We tried not to make a big deal about it because one day Dustin walked into Nate's room only to hear Nate gasp and slam the door. Turns out he was wearing the dress and knew we would freak out. So we let him wear it for a few days and then it mysteriously disappeared.

Then there was Ellie's actual birthday in there. She requested breakfast in bed for her birthday -- pancakes. Dustin lovingly drove to McD's to buy it for her. Maybe we would have made them fresh for her if we didn't need to be at Janel's by 7:15 to get her hair done. She really wanted to wear a french braid that day and I am hair inept. She also got to take donuts to school, I brought her a special lunch and then she had field day in the afternoon. All in all, I think she can't really complain about a fast food breakfast.

Field Day was actually pretty nice, except that I got a little weary of explaining my station 15 times in a row. And I totally made the game up. It was suppose to be a relay where you try and fill the bucket with water from a sponge, but they didn't bring me buckets until half way through. By then I figured I had it going so well, why change now? So despite the directions reading, "Thanks for not making this a soak station," I had the kids ring the sponges out over their heads in their lines and pass it along. Then I sprayed the winning team with the bucket refill hose. It was actually really popular. I'm not even kidding. The kids loved it.

The next day my mom and sister came into town for a girl's weekend. We got pedicures, manicures, went shopping, Ellie got her special birthday present, brows and lips waxes, played Wii, made forts, ate way too much junk. . . and of course made Ellie's birthday cake. We really made a mess of it this year, but it was fun! And by we, I should probably say I made the mess. My sister has all the pictures of the weekend on her camera and she is currently driving across the country, so you'll just have to wait for her to unpack and find her camera cord to see Ellie's big birthday surprise.

Yesterday was the Kindergarten field trip. We went to the Broadway Palm dinner theater and saw Mulan. It was really cute and I got to make 5 trips to the rest room -- only once for myself. Can you guess what color group Ellie's class was? I can't believe they made the chaperons wear the same color as the kids. HA HA! They had a lunch and dessert buffet at the theater for all the kids with really healthy food choices. That's sarcastic, by the way. They did make a note that none of their food is deep fried in trans fats. But honestly, it was cute for little kids and I'm totally going to take Ellie there this summer for High School Musical.
And that was how I spent the last week :D