Friday Fun-Day

Let me preface this by saying this: Today was one of the best days I've had in a long time. 

Since I didn't have school, I spent almost the entire day just hanging out with a friend of mine.  We talked, grabbed lunch, talked some more...and then split up to go pick up our respective kids.

An hour and a half later, they knocked on our door, ready for some pool fun.  The water wasn't too cold, and it was sticky, humid and overcast(ish).  N's birthday is in August, so he always asks for water guns for his birthday.  We have quite the arsenal of Super Soaker items, so there were plenty of weapons for all.  A battle between four kids, quickly turned into a battle between four kids and one adult, and finally (after I'd already been soaked while sitting on my chair), I joined in on the action.

It was three plus hours of pool-time fun!  There were very few issues between children; in fact, everyone got along...even though almost every single kid ended up being a traitor to their team at least once.  I had a few human shields, I won't lie. 

Once it started to get dark and everyone started to shiver, we headed back to my apartment to change and order pizza.  Enter the use of the iPads.  Our friends brought their iPads, N had his iPod, and B's was at his dad's so he got to borrow an iPad to link up to play Minecraft and something called Boss 2, whatever the heck that is.

These boys played without incident for HOURS.  Hours.  And the grown-ups got to watch baseball uninterrupted.  In fact, it was so peaceful that, when I looked at the clock and saw that it was almost midnight, I was shocked.  There's no way it could've been any later than 10:00.

Neither of the boys wanted to leave, and begged to stay over, but it was late and everyone was tired, so we promised that we'd do it again soon and have both of them stay over.  It was a really fantastic time with some great friends, and I was so glad it went so well.  My boys were asking, as soon as they left, if they could come back over on Saturday or Sunday or Monday or even all three.

 And that?  That's saying a lot!

Aubs