When I posted about Netta's birthday party, I forgot about 2 picture gems that were on John's cell phone. Here is one of King and EZ at the carousal during Netta's party. The best part was John's description of it on Facebook: "Chief Sullen Monkey & Brave Cocaine Wolf about to ride the Silver Beach Carousel"
He also captured this great one of Netta while we were making her cupcakes: "Netta found the Michelangelo's David apron you (Lexi) gave me years ago and she couldn't stop laughing about it showing his "nips and nuts". I didn't even remember I had it. Father of the Year right here." Now all the kids keep asking me why I am posting this gross picture online.
Now on to June. After we got back from Virginia Beach we had no food so Netta and I went on a little mommy-daughter date for lunch. She is now obsessed with this Salted Caramel Rootbeer. It was actually awesome, but at $2.50 a pop it is definitely a special treat.
Netta is always my little model and was very excited to have her picture taken with this lighthouse art. Downtown St. Joe is covered by lighthouses by various artist as part of campaign to save the real lighthouse in town. We love all these different art themes they have running throughout the year downtown.
The kids had their last day of school on June 5th. As always I was beyond ready to not have to be rushing out the door every morning. Both kids did a great job adjusting this year, although we did have a little incident with Netta towards the end of the year. I am still not sure why it started, but she began telling lies at school, especially lies about little boys to get them in trouble. She got in a bit of trouble and her teacher was nice but firm and I think it caused a weird reaction out of Netta. After we came home from the beach she started crying all the time and confessing all her past sins no matter how small they were. We were worried something bad had happened to her, but we spoke to her about it and her teacher and we couldn't find anything. So, all I can do is guess that getting in a lot of trouble for lying made her feel bad for everything she ever did wrong. It was an intense 2 weeks of crying, and I was starting to think she might need therapy, but then she started getting over it. We are now trying to help her find the balance of when she has to confess and when she can get away with things ;)
Kings life with a cast came to an end and just in time because the stupid boot they gave us started falling apart and we had to keep taping it together. When I complained to the nurse she said "Well they aren't meant to last forever." and I said "For $40 it should at least last 3 weeks." Needless to say I was annoyed with the boot and her.
EZ got to have his friend party after school got out. We are all obsessed with the Lego movie at our house, so his theme was an easy choice. The only hard thing was trying to find a pinata to go with it. I was actually pretty proud that I came up with this Cloud Cuckoo Land idea all on my own. The boys loved destroying it.
EZ wanted Lego men cupcakes. We found the molds online and even though we had a scare where our microwave starting smoking like crazy while melting the chocolate, we were able to finish all the men and some extra lego bricks to boot. Luckily, the sparks in the microwave were just from some stuck on food, but we did go without using it for like 2 weeks before I worked up the nerve to try again. Also we were lucky that I was too scatter-brained to call someone to come and fix it, since it wasn't actually broken.
EZ has had some weird spellings of his name in the past, but this card from his party is hands down the winner. I can honestly say we did not anticipate how hard the name Ezekiel would be for people.
EZ had a lot of fun with all his friends, but it was an interesting mix of personalities and things were getting a little out of hand at times. It will definitely be worth the money to not have the party at the house next year. This many 8 year old boys in my house is a few too many.
Netta had her dance recital on. June 15th. We were lucky we were able to find a studio that would let her in since we weren't here at the beginning of the year. Even though she started learning the dancing 2 months after everyone else, she still owned it on the stage. She lives for the costumes and the makeup and the bright lights.
As excited as I was for school to end and the crazy mornings to be over, I knew that having all 4 kids at home all day would get to be a bit overwhelming. So, I signed the older 3 up for camps at the YMCA. Kingston when to a preschool camp. He cried a couple of times when I dropped him off, but he did have fun everyday and he is going to preschool there in the fall, so I am glad he got a preview of it. Netta went to a gymnastics camp. At the end they had a performance and they showed off their skills on the different pieces of equipment. She had a lot of fun, but even she admitted that she likes dance better because of the costumes and the big recital.
EZ went to a British soccer camp. I have to admit that I was excited to just listen to his coaches talk and I am pretty sure I was not the only mom hanging around listening to their accents ;) EZ had a lot of fun and made a ton of improvement. He said he got made fun of a couple of times for being slow and sadly for EZ he just isn't all that speedy and he will probably have to deal with this anytime sports are involved. Luckily, the comments weren't as mean or as numerous as when he went to basketball camp last year and his coaches were really encouraging.
EZ also played baseball this year. He was lucky to have a great coach, who actually works with John, but he still had a tough year with learning to bat with a pitching machine and moving to a more competitive league. By his last game, I have to admit that I was secretly praying it would be rained out. It was a long season with EZ struggling to get on base and he even said at one point that he shouldn't play anymore because he isn't very good. Luckily the game wasn't cancelled and EZ ended up going 4 for 4 at bat, scoring 3 runs and being named player of the game. He surprised us all and I seriously almost cried. The best was that he even admitted that he wasn't as bad as he thought and that he should keep playing.
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