Wednesday started with a Roughriders game with the Carltons (a late father's day gift for my FIL). We sat in the seats for the first time since having the both kids. Usually we prefer the grass seats with the free hat and hot dog, but my MIL was having trouble with her back, so seats with backs were best for this game. The kids did suprisingly well despite my worries that they would be all over the place! The stadium wasn't crowded which was good b/c it gave us a little wiggle room. Into the 3rd inning, it was decided to be time for Dippin Dots. Thanks to the disposable sippy cups I had brought along, we were able to split one between the kids b/c one is definitely enough for the both of them. About the 5th inning, Baylie decided that she needed to see Daisy, so off we went in search of her. We found her by the field, so we had to wait about 10 minutes for her to come back up, and Baylie was pumped and ready until Daisy reached out to give her a high five, and I swear that child went into a convulsion of fear! She was fine a second later when Daisy was walking away and wanted to get another high five. I told her that Daisy was hot and needed to go back to cool down, and she seemed ok with that. We decided to check out the gift store where she was thrilled with all the smaller, stuffed Dueces and Daisys that she could hug and hold. The kids left the game happy and tired, so well done for their first game in the seats.
Thursday evening we met up and the local splash park after dinner with some friends from Aiden's pre-K class. We wanted to have one last hurrah before the graduation. The kids had a blast, and I think Baylie enjoyed the splash park more than she ever has! Having some friends there really helped. Aiden loved seeing his friends out of school, including some that left earlier this summer.
Friday was Aiden's 6th birthday and his pre-K graduation. He really wanted to go to school for his splash party with the class. I though how ironic. Every other birthday I have been working and took off work and took him out of school to spend time with him, and this is the first birthday I have not been working, and he wants to go to school! He was very excited though, so off he went after a birthday donut left by Daddy before he went to work.
It was nice to have him off at school though, so I could take Baylie shopping for her present for him since we hadn't had a chance up to that point. My mom came over so we could work on our traditional homemade cake for the birthday. Aiden wanted a spaceship this year b/c he is very into space right now. Luckily my mom has a Wilton's cake pan for a space ship that was actually passed down from my grandmother. Pretty neat! So we ended up starting on the cake after I went to go get Aiden from school. The spaceship cake turned out to his liking, so it was considered a success!
After we finished with the cake, we started getting ready for the big graduation. Upon getting everyone dressed, I realized that I had donated Aiden's only pair of black pants about a month ago. Last minute change to have Micah take Aiden to Walmart first for pants and meeting them up at the school, got us in just in time. Aiden and his classmates performed all kids of songs and a dance. They did the solar system song in which Aiden got to be the sun. He had been telling me for a couple days that he was always the sun in the song, and he would continue to be even after pre-K. Now I understood. He stood quite proudly holding up the sun balloon as the other kiddos holding planets and stars revolved around him. He is not usually the kind of kid to demand the center of attention, so it was pretty neat to see him as the sun. :) 
After the songs, the school showed a really sweet slideshow with pics of the kids throughout the years and then some baby pics. Then came the actual graduation with the handing out of diplomas. I thought I was all set, but then as soon as Aiden's name was called, I was blocked by my own father, brother, and uncle, as they stood to cheer for him! I totally missed it, so I am hoping they at least got it on video. ;)
Afterwards, we went out to Chili's for the dual celebration. Not exactly the quickest service that time of the evening for a group our size, but Aiden enjoyed it, so it was worth it. Baylie fell asleep after eating one fry. She tried to stay awake and wait but it was just too late. :)
The party on Saturday was a hit! The kids had a blast splashing and swimming at the party. Aiden has been such a fish since learning how to swim, so he didn't get out of the water except to switch pools. Once home after a quick shower, he was chomping at the bit to open his presents. He ripped through them in no time. Once again we ended up with no duplicates! We have been lucky with that for most if not all of his birthdays.
We had one surprise ourselves that evening. We went to put in Aiden's new Wii Wipeout game, and the disc already in was having a hard time coming out. When it finally did, two photo memory cards popped out. It was at that point that I remembered having 3 memory cards sitting on the table by the Wii. I also remembered Baylie earlier that day trying to put the cards into the port for the SD card, and I asked her to leave it alone. Apparently, she had not given up and the disc drive was much easier to stick all three in rather than tyring to put one in the correct slot. So the one of three is still in the Wii, and I will be checking out repair costs this weekend. That girl is always keeping us on our toes!
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