So we had a great evening tonight at our good friends Alisa and Holly’s. It was Holly’s 43rd birthday and she wanted to have a lesbian dance party, how fun! We met their new neighbors who were fantastic and Mary and Alice joined us all, too. I captured some funny, funny video of Holly trying to coax Dee into dancing. Dee insists she doesn’t dance but Holly would not take no for an answer. Dee’s gonna kill me for posting this, but it’s great stuff. Click the links if you wanna see the footage:

Holly doing some seriously negotiating

Dee DOES dance!

Happy Birthday, Holly!

All in all a great evening with the best of friends.

It was like musical beds at our place last night….we all started out in our own beds, then Carlos came into our bed in the middle of the night (as always), then Dee got up to use the bathroom and in came Levi to sleep with me. I’m sandwiched between Levi and Carlos and I can’t turn over but I hear Dee come in and then leave. It’s now 5am. Levi is fidgiting and eventually I boot him out of bed and back to his own. By this time I’m wide awake. When I get up, see that Dee has scrunched into Trey’s bed. I turn on the news and Trey comes out of his room crying about how Mama Dee left his bed, and he snuggles with me on the couch. Dee had returned to our bed. How’s a mama supposed to sleep in when musical beds is going on!?!?!?

Just a heads up to the Bainbridge types….Rite Aid has a TON of kid sized school supplies for 50% off. We got the boys mini tape dispensers (a 2 pack) for 25 cents each, mini pens for 25 cents each and many notebooks and more at dirt cheap prices. Our boys LOVE notebooks, they will sit in the kitchen for long periods of time and write notes, their letters and shopping lists to help me out (granted, they are only random letters but the boys are trying!)
They are going to be SO jazzed to get tape…I know it sounds weird but they love tape and they would waste massive amounts of it if given the chance. I always cringe at the “zzzzzip!” noise when they have a roll and pull a foot out at a time. The little rolls will be perfect and I don’t care if they use the whole thing.
Just a heads up!

Seriously….if you ever wondered what it’s like to have a 5 year old with a broken collarbone, it’s just like having a newborn baby. Getting up all hours of the night to care for them is just the start.

All in all, it’s exhausting! Have to give a huge thanks to our MNMs friends who have graciously offered to bring us some meals. I didn’t realize that we were not really doing dinner (does cereal? McDonalds? Corndog? really count as a meal) so this will help out a ton. I’ve been fighting a cold on top of getting up at night with Levi so by dinner time I’m beat.

Many have asked how he’s doing and yesterday was a really tough one for him. As a mama is makes me worry that more may be going on. We gave him a dose of baby vicotin during the day, he napped and seemed much improved but since it was day 3 he shouldn’t have been getting worse. Doctor’s appt today, going to push for more x-rays and see what’s going on with our brave little guy. He’s learning better how to tell him brothers to keep their distance so that’s a bonus, plus I rented some new ScoobyDoo and Justice League (Superman, Batman, Spiderman) dvds so he can be mellow. I figure a few days with the tv isn’t going to hurt him.

Went to a great picnic for the Wilkes preschool last night, what fun to have the kids all playing together and the parents getting to chit chat. Great food, too! The boys love their teachers and were excited to see them again. I forgot my camera, otherwise we would have had some great pictures.

Off to hit the store real quick for some much needed coffee…and toilet paper, we’re down to the last roll and that would be bad. Obviously grocery shopping hasn’t been high on the to-do list. Then the big boys have an hour of preschool each so today’s busy again.