Macy's night of fame....RECYCLE!!

We are so proud of Macy. Of 595 entries for the recycling poster contest, Macy was one of the 42 winners. They had an awards ceremony and dinner honoring the winners where Macy came in second for the first grade class. And a $100 savings bond! not too shabby. Her poster was displayed in the borough hall and now the school. We were pretty excited for her and after a long week of being worried about getting tubes in her ears, this was a good ending.

Macy had tubes put in yesterday morning. It took about ten minutes and a whole ten minutes to come out of the anesthesia. As soon as we were home, she was back to normal. Now after having fluid buildup for so long we thought that was why she's been soOooo loud now this will change everything. So far....she's just as loud. Hopefully it will make things better for her and she will be able to hear and sooner or later become more quiet. Poor thing, she's going to be going through quite a lot these next couple of weeks, its amazing how resilient and fast kids recover. I must say she is quite a trooper!!

Luau anyone!!

What a Birthday!! So this was my first experience having a party in our tiny little house. I had a perfect vision of an immaculately decorated house, the girls wearing their skirts and leis, hula dancing, making tiki pyramids, sitting quietly making their crafts, why didn't someone warn me that that is just not reality.

Instead: nine crazy emotional girls all wanting to do their own thing. A couple words of advice to the party planners:

1. The tacky tourist race was a hit. Races always bring on the competitors!!

2. The pinata also a hit although I strongly suggest getting the string pull pinata, after three hits each going through the line three times it still was not breaking, Bob and I had to tear the thing open and just dump the candy on the grass. Make sure its not a humid day such as ours was and that candy suckers aren't smashed such as ours were and that the little pieces don't land in all the girls hair such as our did.

3. Don't clean before the party, expect chocolate ice cream melting on the carpet, beads inside and out, torn grass skirt strings and food, plates, juice boxes scattered throughout the house. (although I gotta give credit to those moms who's dauaghters were actaully helping me clean!) definitley not my kid.

Sure not all the games were played or prizes given out. Sure I didn't get any great pictures especially of the pinata or cute decorated door, but all-in-all I think the girls had fun and that's the important thing, One party down no more for another year!!





After the three hours of fun!! where to being, inside or out?