Especially especial special day!

Today was Buddy's baptism day....

Those are two of Buddy's friends, unfortunately I forgot to take my good camera and unfortunately I've never had a kid get baptized before to think about taking pictures with me, his grandpa (who baptized him) or all of the representatives of the Beeder/Breeding (maiden name not something we're doing) Clan (which was just me and my parents)! Oh well. Anyway, I gave the talk on baptism.. I had a little science experiment/analogy about washing away sins that one side of the room got to see really well......I'll blame my nerves and shaky hands for that one. But hey, how often do you get to do science experiments in the chapel under the ruse of spirituality? Afterwards we had a joint shin-dig with the other family that was having a baptism today too! It was quite a full house (I'll blame the other family for that!)! Now we are relaxing and I am mentally spent with my party quota for at least a week (look out for next week though)! So all in all a super fantastic, fantastically awesome, day!

Distractions.....

Buddy got this.....

this morning, and he has been quite distracted ever since! Sheesh, 10 minutes into the ceremony and the kids are already over it....

Perhaps if they walked around holding their trophies that would hold their attention. Oh wait, my kid did do that all day! I'm also pretty certain that he'll be sleeping with it tonight! So let's continue on with our distractions, shall we? I took my parents to a botanical garden (old people love that stuff)....

Poor kid wouldn't hold still....except to pose with the god Ku, cause according to Buddy (not the posted signs), if you pose like Ku you will become strong and powerful like him.....

Every few feet I'd find my little guy looking like he was in the middle of doing something I was afraid would roll down his leg (that makes sense, his bowels are where all his strength lies)! In other news, my parents took us out for my birthday (it's next Wed.). While we were leaving the restaurant someone was cranking their music way too loud which of course meant that I had to break into dance! Which led to Buddy telling me to stop, which led me to holler out multiple times that I was Buddy's mom, which led to Buddy continuing to tell me to stop, which led to Shane flashing lights on my awesome dance moves, which led to Buddy crying from embarrassment. Yep, I'm that good of a mother! I keep reminding Buddy that the embarrassment just gets better and better as he ages (I'm nice that way to warn him). So all in all a super fantastic, hanging with the fam, day.....

Just a regular day....

Today we decided to see if my dad is faster than a turtle...

He's not, but in my dad's defense our turtle is freakishly fast! Then, we wondered if Donkey Balls would like Buddy since he doesn't like them....

He was quickly spit out (pretty sure he left a rotten after taste....at least smell). Then I decided to see if 3 people could look at the camera at the same time....

Obviously that's too advanced for this crew. Tomorrow we're off to Honoka'a to get a treasure ( I don't want to spoil the awesomeness). So all in all a super fantastic, try and try again, day!

Old Geezers....

It's barely past 7 pm and everyone is asleep in the house but Buddy and me! Hmmm, must have worn my parents out with doing all the chores around my house and the volunteering I signed them up for at Buddy's school! After everyone went to bed I started working on my talk to give at Buddy's baptism on Sunday (honestly I tried pawning off the job to my parents, but Buddy was way too cute with his request to let my fear of public speaking put a damper on things) and Buddy sat next to me on the couch and whispered in my ear "if I watch Blue's Clues will you promise not to tell anyone"....

So here I am not telling you about the first episode he watched, mums totally the word on the first episode, it's the second one I'm allowed to talk about.....it's all in the fine print! My boy, thank goodness he's still at the age where he wants to cuddle, give loves and watch "baby" shows! So all in all a super fantastic, not growing up too fast, day!

Living Vicariously....

We picked up my parents today at the airport and then we celebrated in style....

Darth Vader joined us, but somehow we never got a picture because he was too busy "trick or treating"! Yep, that's right, the Budster and I were calling it quits after an hour, but not our Darth!  He wanted to go wee into the night because he never got to go trick or treating when he was a kid (or got to go to a few houses and that was it)! Buddy was soooo exhausted after walking and walking and walking, he kept asking to go home, I kept saying OK and Shane kept saying "just one more house". Hmmmm, who's the kid? In other news, my parents are here, but I already said that! But sometimes you have to say things over and over again because they are just that awesome! So all in all a super fantastic, after all that walking I wouldn't smell my feet, day!

Preparations....

In preparation for my parents coming tomorrow, we invited some of our closest friends and stuffed ourselves silly....

Yep, we're ready! So all in all a super fantastic, tomorrow can't come fast enough, day!

8th Annual Birthday Extravaganza.....

Buddy has had one fun filled day, and I'm slightly exhausted! He drove himself to school in style...

We were both so excited about the balloons that we totally forgot his backpack. Oh well, you don't actually need  your books for school right? (That's Buddy's friend Tommy that hitched a ride home after school).  Shane and I joined him for lunch....

Apparently taking a picture outside of the cafeteria is what all the cool kids do! After lunch, Buddy's teacher let me do some science experiments with the kids. Lets just say that red cabbage, baking soda and vinegar met with high approval from all of Buddy's classmates, of course I'm sure the mentos explosions in soda didn't hurt! Lastly the party. We made team forts of of some boxes I bought Saturday (thank goodness the neighbor kids came over to help me cause massive winds and boxes don't mix too well). Then the kids played, and played, and played, and played (my friend Akiko took the pictures because I was stuck on the grill since Shane was at a work meeting, but the kids said they had a great time....which was also apparent by the fact that none of the kids would stop playing to come and eat until it was pitch black outside)....

(The girl in the green sweater is Zoe, Buddy gave her the army man snow globe he made yesterday, I think she was impressed!)

I think it went rather well, I feel bad though because I forgot to mention no presents and Buddy got quite the haul! Which I wouldn't feel so bad about if I also didn't have people bring a side dish to share......errrr, big oopsy..... at least Buddy had fun...

 I'm still reeling in guilt. Oh well, I always have next year to get it right! So all in all super fantastic, still trying to get it right, day!