Another birthday gone

My baby turned 7 on Friday *sniff*. Time sure has flown by. I think for a few weeks there I might have been going through some sort of "my baby's not a baby anymore and I think I might need another one" thing. I only told 2 people about that, one being my husband. He thought I had lost my mind and I think I nearly did. Since the day I had Joshua, I said I'd never have another one, two was all I wanted. I don't know. Being up here all alone had me thinking I needed to repopulate my corner of the world and then I wouldn't be so lonely. I sobered up though and realized it's best for me to not have anymore. Back to the birthday boy....

He had a really good day. We didn't have a big party for him this year, we will next. I don't really know anyone he goes to school with nor do I know their mothers. I thought it best that I take cupcakes and goodie bags to school during snack time and then we had our own little celebration after school. He was really excited that is birthday was on pajama day. One thing I did learn with the cupcakes I ordered is to make sure they're all the same color and that the picks on top of them were exactly the same. They all had happy face rings on them. 16 were yellow, 4 were red, and 4 were orange. I didn't order them that way, that's just what they stuck on there. Everyone thought they needed orange or red and didn't seem to think it was fair if they got yellow. Ungrateful little turkeys. I'm certain that if there would have only been 4 yellow, they all would have wanted them. He's really excited because he's the oldest one in his class. I'm glad we had him do kindergarten again this year. That was one of the best things that we've done. It was hard, but good.

After school we came home to have cake and open presents. He was in a hurry to get those things done though. We told him we'd take him to eat dinner and then we'd take him to this big indoor/outdoor amusement place called Funland. It's really expensive so not a place we'll be visiting often. They got to ride the bumper cars, play mini golf, play pool, slide down huge windey slides, and ride on this really cool thing called the frog hopper.It takes you way up and then drops ya down, then back up, then down a bunch of times. They loved it and I know they must have rode that thing at least 6 or 7 times. Every time they got finished they'd get right back in line again. He got quite a bit of birthday money this year so after we finished up at Funland we headed out to do some shopping. He found a lot of goodies. I think his favorite thing was a Wii sports pack he picked up. It has the baseball bat, tennis racket, and golf club. It's a good thing he had that birthday money because I wouldn't have bought it. That Wii stuff is pretty pricey. He picked it out all by himself. I was surprised that he chose that. He was really excited that HE was buying something that everyone could use. I thought it was really sweet. He's a really thoughtful little guy. He had a really good birthday.

Cassie had a date last night with some girlfriends. Another one of her friends just turned 10 and her mother called to ask me if Cassie could come over for a girl's night. Her new BF and another friend from class were coming too. It wasn't an all night thing, her mother brought them home at 10:30. We did drop her off and while I can say not much as surprised me since we've lived here, what we drove up to certainly did. This was the first time I had been in to this neighborhood. That house was enormous . It looked like something off of TV. I think all 4 of us gasped when we pulled up. I took her in and honestly was afraid to touch the doorbell. I stayed a whole 2 minutes I think. Just long enough to give her mother our address for when she brought her back home. I waited for her on the front porch when she got back. I was pretty anxious to hear about her night. She told me that her friend's house has several bathrooms, 2 dining areas, 2 living areas, a bunch of bedrooms, a theatre with the seats and everything, a game room with a pool table, air hockey, and tons of other things, and a gym with tons of exercising equipment. I know I'm forgetting some other things. I think I stopped listening when she was talking to me after she got to the theatre part. Here's the shocker, her friend is an only child and her mom is a stay at home mom. I'm telling you that house had to have cost a bazillion dollars. I'd love to know what her dad does. Maybe they won the lotto or something. They had so much fun! So much in fact she told me this morning everything that she told me last night again...lol. Some of her friends here really have a lot. I hope she doesn't start to think that she needs what they have. I'm doubting very seriously that we'll ever have a theatre in our house no matter how big that house might be. I don't watch TV much at all and the idea of sinking so much in to it seems like a waste to me. I'd rather spend it on trips or something. I hope you all had a great weekend! My exercise bike is calling my name. Not the one in my gym, the one in my living room...lol! So off I go....