sublimatedangel | Feb. 4th, 2008

Ah, let's see. So, my mom had her MRI on Friday, and came by afterwards to steal Alex away for the day. She was campaigning for an overnight, but we had a lot going on on Saturday, so I nixed it. In retrospect, I probably should've said yes. He had a very rough night (rare for him these days) which meant no one in the household got much sleep.

Saturday was pretty awesome, however. We managed to get out to CJ's birthday party, which was a pretty good time. A lot of people we didn't really know that well, and Alex was more interested in the toys than the babies, but hey :D birthday party! I got to feed my new neice, whose one month old and still pretty much figuring out that there's a world around her. Afterwards, we trekked out to have dinner with Mike and Shannon and little Chloe. There was a lot of good time had, even split six ways, though between the milk-spilling, the introduction to Yo Gabba Gabba (....kids show), and the time of departure decided by little ones getting tired, we were definitely joking that our get-togethers these days are more tame than they used to be.

Alex has been very disappointed that 'birthday party' doesn't happen everyday. Sunday we went to the park, and chased each other around there for a while. I gathered a few four leaf clovers for next month and spent some time swinging, which I haven't done in a while. Eventually it started getting drizzly, so we adjourned to the Burger King for lunch and playland for continued romping goodness. Their current toys in the kids meals are a Snoopy figure who hugs a little Woodstock (yup,