Blue...

Our family dog Blue died yesterday. She was the best dog I ever had. Buddy was perhaps more fond of her , but then again she never wheeled me around my parents backyard like this...

Buddy cried for a while and we tried to find a playmate to help relieve those tears (because apparently he grew up yesterday and would only sit in my lap to be rocked/comforted by me for 2 minutes). Unfortunately, everyone was busy. Fortunately a documentary about sunken war ships helped alleviate some of our woes. So all in all a missing Blue, not quite fantastic, day!

The elbow's have it....

I signed Buddy up for an art class. The last time I signed him up for anything was two years ago for a hip hop class. We attended two of the hip hop classes in which he sat in a corner and whined about wanting to make up his own steps instead of following the choreography, making me vow to myself to never sign him up for any extracurricular activity again! Well, 2 weeks ago the school sent out fliers for an after school art class and Buddy was more than excited to join up. Thankfully we didn't do a repeat performance of whining in the corner, but then again when one of your best friend's happens to be in the same class too, it makes it awesome....

Of course, when your mother takes a picture and it looks like you're elbowing your aforementioned best friend, that just makes it all the more awesome! So all in all, a super fantastic, creative process, day!

The look of disappointment....

Apparently, life after an "all boys party" just seems to make regular every day life seem kind of hum drum in comparison ...

At least from the looks of Buddy's face, perhaps we should try again....

That's better, I think. So all in all a super fantastic, after party, day!

Boy Rule....girls apparently drool.....

Buddy had his "Boy Only" Party tonight, it seems like these boys are growing into men before our eyes....

Thankfully, they're not growing so fast that they wouldn't play with a marshmallow shooter...

But then again, perhaps you never grow out of playing with marshmallow shooters (I didn't catch any pictures of the 2 men in attendance using the shooters, but let me assure you, they were active participants)...

You know if you ask any gardener, one of the main ingredients if you want something to grow is water. Believe me we had plenty of it....

Next up in our growing process, building...

and destroying...

(Let me assure you, they are quite the professionals at destroying). Since they did so well at the destruction, they decided to show off their manliness, by having some healthy competition. First up, bubble blowing...

Seed spitting...

Then, since they were so adept at building and destroying, they decided to do it again, this time with eggs (I tell you, today wasn't a good day to be in the bird family)...

Disclaimer: all the eggs were damaged in the making of this production. Then to end the party with a big bang, we decided to make a blast of it....

Of course, our friends soda, and mentos helped out a bit. The boys thought it was so exciting they ran in the soda explosions (yes I said explosions, 6 to be exact) like it was a water park ride.....

Silly boys, or should I say, silly, sticky boys! Now Buddy is ending his party with a fantastic sleep over that's including watching some "manly" show about wild hogs (yes I'm actually talking about hogs, not motorcycles). So all in all a super fantastic, party/ but not pooper, day!

Preparation and not just H......

Ever wonder what 1000 filled water balloons looks like? Yep, me too, but I know what 500 looks like.....

It looks good enough to have 14 boys completely saturated within 2 minutes. I think the boys are pretty excited. During lunch some of Buddy's classmates requested to add a burping contest to the mix (will it be embarrassing to them or me when I win that one?)! So now we have on our agenda water balloons, a life sized game of angry birds, marshmallow shooting guns, dropping eggs of the balcony (hopefully in a shatterproof casing), a burping contest, a farting contest (also suggested by a classmate), watermelon seed spitting and gloop. Wowzers, hopefully it's a boy's dream come true, but if not, I guess we'll make a disaster trying!!!!! So all in all, a super fantastic, ready for a mess, day!

The beginnings.....

We've started preparing for our "BOYS ONLY" party in 2 days....

Buddy was a lot of help in preparing the first of our 1500 water balloons that we are the proud owners of. Yep, like I said, lots of help with the first. Then he decided he had bigger battles to contend with...

Thank goodness Shane gets the day off tomorrow, cause I think I might know something he can do to pass his time while I go shopping for some last minute party supplies (yes, I am laughing on the inside). So all in all a super fantastic, ready to party it up, day!

The village....

You know the saying "it takes a village to raise a child"? Perhaps I'm taking it too literally? Whilst I was slumbering after a night shift extravaganza, the village took my kid to the beach, fed him, entertained him, bandaged a scrape he got on his back and then took a picture to share with me....

(He's on the top tree branch) This village stuff is working out well for me (perhaps not the other villagers, but Buddy and I are pretty stoked about it!). So all in all a super fantastic, village living, day!