Birthday Party in the Park

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Saturday was the craziest day we've had in a longlong time. We started early in the morning posting flyers for the community clothing exchange I was organizing with my friend Natasha. We got the flyers up and then went to the church to finish putting the clothes in order. We finished early and still had about an hour till we were open for business at 11am. So Desi and I went ran over to a flea market acoupla blocks away (can't resist them!) and then to a playground to play for about an hour. Then I got him in the stroller with some milk and marched around till he fell asleep. I headed back to the church and spent the next 3+ hours straightening and folding clothes and meeting lotsa folks from the community. Desi was great and slept for about an hour and then played and ran around till it was time for us to head over to another playground close by for a birthday party. Kaden, who we met through PlayGroup, had turned 2. We got there and Desi was thrilled to see the huge ELMO cake and ELMO birthday hats. hehehe... I had to look away as he took big handfuls of potato chips the the orangest cheetos I'd ever seen. Then, of course, he had to have some of the orange soda. I suppose birthday parties are times for food exceptions. They actually had a pizza delivery guy on a bike bring about 6 pizzas to our little spot in the park. Cool! DesmondJones was never so messy: orange soda, orange cheetos and greasy pizza. He was wearing a basically white t-shirt. Then there was the cake and ice cream too and the regular park/playground dirt. eeeeekks!! He had such a fun time though, playing (sorta) with his little friends and throwing the ball around and climbing on the playgyms and going down the slides – I love seeing him have a good time.

We finally left about 4pm, we'd been out all day!! We hardly ever gogogo for this long without a break at home, we were so exhausted! I still had laundry to do so after Des took a bath we commenced with that and then around 7pm he was so ready for bed. My good sweet boy, he slept and slept a most restful sleep. :):)

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