Monday, May 30, 2011

Nine. Years. Old...


Can you believe it??? Wow, time has gone fast!



July 2002


Today...




So, today we celebrated...

Notice the odd-ly placed baseball. For the first time in 9 birthdays, they could not agree on a cake. And actually, it was only Jack and Drew that were with me. Jack wanted the sports cookie-cake and Drew DIDN'T! I try to be sensitive to the whole triplet-sharing-a-birthday thing, but we already had 20 left-over cupcakes at home and I was not about to buy 3 cakes. To further complicate the matter, this all took place **this** morning, as in 4 hours before the party. Fortunately, the nice lady at Jewel added a baseball and everyone was happy enough. Whew.



Having a birthday around Memorial Day in Chicago means that you never know what you are going to get. But, today, we switched the "heat" over to "air-conditioning" and enjoyed 90 degree weather for the party, which seemed to make everyone happy.


Charlie looks happy.



Aidan and Liam look happy.


Connor too...


Ben definitely looks happy hanging in the hammock after a long weekend of soccer.


I know that Grandpa was surely happy, but that was because he beat us all at Pentago, after getting "humiliated" on Mother's Day.


Happy Grandma's...


And, a Happy Charlie at the "Little Kid's Table", where the little cousins hang on his every word.


And, here is a funny story to hopefully make you happy too...


Here are the boys looking so excited about opening the ping-pong paddles and balls that they got from Grandma and Grandpa. I'm sure they are thinking "but, we don't have a ping-pong table!". They were good sports as everyone was suggesting how they could play with them, even though they don't have a table.


Since it was strongly suggested that they give them a try in the garage, they did. And, since that nice big box was leaning against the wall in the garage, they decided to use it as a ping-pong back board.





Apparently, "observant" is not a skill that kicks in until past 9 years old...at least I hope so. There is a new ping-pong table in the box. It was finally pointed out to Ben, Jack and Drew, because they never noticed.




Ok, after re-reading that funny little story, I realize that it does not translate very well for people that were not actually here. But, I'm leaving it in because it makes me chuckle. Sorry for those of you that missed it. It was really funny in real life. :)


Happy Birthday to my favorite NINE year olds, in the WHOLE WORLD!!


Love ya!!





5 comments:

The Wright Trips said...

Happy Birthday to your sweet, adorable boys!! You've got a beautiful family mama! And the ping pong story is funny so I'm glad you kept it :) AND...I love Charlie's face on the slip and slide. Pricless!

Katie said...

Too funny about the ping pong table! It was a good story. They are getting so big!

Tash said...

Sounds like it was a real HAPPY birthday, I am so happy for your whole family , it looked like such a nice party. I started to laugh as soon as you started to tell the story , glad you left it in...it did make me happy to!

Jennifer said...

I'm glad you left the story too! And Happy Birthday to MY favorite 9year olds!!!

Maureen said...

I LOVE the story. Mainly because one Christmas I got a bike, still in the box. I was showing my mom everything in my bag from Santa and she kept asking, "what else did you get?" Took me awhile to see the HUGE box behind my bag. Total joy!!!!!

Just noticed that Spencer DOES coach the boy's team, so ignore my baseball comment on facebook - LOL!