Right after another little boy was confirmed, Ashton stood up, folded his arms, walked through the circle of men getting handshakes, and walked back to his chair verbalizing that "I am a good boy!" before sitting back down. (Adorable!)
After the church we went to Holly's house for a luncheon. Ashton plopped down outside and ate his lunch, so I sat next to him and helped. We retreated indoors for visiting and playing after eating. That's when I decided I would run out and grab his Root Beer and finish drinking it down. I sat down, took a sip and felt something solid in my mouth. I went to spit it out, and before I did, I got a huge buzz and sting on the inside of my lip! I jumped up and ran to the bathroom and I spit out a bee on the top of the can. I managed to quickly brush the stinger out of my lip. But the damage was done. Joe's mom told me to put a paste of baking soda and water on it. And I did, and that did stop the stinging. However the next day my lip looked like this:
I spent most of Sunday sleeping off a Benadryl haze. This was too darn bad because we missed baby Dallin Harris getting blessed that day. But I was in no state to go anywhere! In fact my lip got a bit worse than this before it started to recede. (Still today it's itchy and puffy) Anyhow, let this be a bee lesson. Bee's do not freeze in St. George. I never even thought to check the soda. It never occurred to me that a bee would still be buzzing around in January.
Tidbit:
On Monday after school Shane picked Nathan up from school and they went to the Thor movie together. Between the two of them they cleaned out an entire large sized bucket of popcorn. This did not set well for Shane, but Nathan didn't have any vomit to divulge his gluttony, as his daddy did.
Tuesday was Ashton's Birthday! The cute little Squirt turned 4!!
Shane had the day off so we took him to run errands and pick out some birthday goodies for him. We went to Costco to exchange some pants and Ashton wanted to eat in and have pizza - so we did! He was charming and visited with the people sitting on the table next to us.
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| Opening the Skylander |
He was able to open his Magna Charge Skylander early in the day and he carried him with him all the day long. The two of us popped into the Party Land store, where he plopped this hat right on his head and wore it around the store.
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| Skylanders in his hands - always |
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| Mikey Cake |
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| He loved it. |
I took him to look at all of the party themes so he could choose what kind of party he wanted. He's been playing a Monster's Inc game on the Leapster, so he was attracted to the Mike and Sully display of party supplies. (There wasn't a Skylander option)
So the kiddo got Monsters, Inc. plates and Momma got an idea for how to decorate the naked cake waiting at home.
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| My lip is still puffy in this picture. |
Once Nathan came home we got down to party stuff. We had planned to go to Jumpin' Jacks, but we asked the Birthday Boy what he wanted to do most of all: Jumpin' Jacks or Pirate Cove Pizza. The boy surprised us with :McDonald's. We confirmed this about 3 more times before he got frustrated and said: I Just want to go to McDonald's. So we did! And the kid was Happy! The boys played for just over an hour at the play place and ordered their favorite McDonald's food. (Shane and I opted to eat elsewhere.)
We got home and opened presents which included Monsters, Inc. snacks, Monster's Inc. Mike and Sully Roll and Scare toys, a new Batman Shirt, a little Lego vehicle set, and two more shirts and a pair of jeans. This of course in addition to his Skylander. After cake and ice cream, the boys went downstairs for an hour of Skylanders video game playing before showers and bedtime!
Shane was afraid that we were being super lame for Ashton's birthday. That McDonald's wasn't a great place to go, but I countered that the kid was HAPPY. And that he loved it! And not too worry- he had plenty more birthday's coming his way. Plus, he had the option to go to two other really fun places and that was what he had WANTED to do. So with that - I daresay he had a great and happy birthday.
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