Playing Catchup

This post is playing catch-up for about the past two weeks!

Jason turned two a week ago, and we celebrated with a knights and dragons themed party! He was beyond thrilled watching the cake come together. Everything from watching me put scales on the dragons to running around in his knight costume from Nana and PopPop had him in a euphoric birthday frenzy! He absolutely understood that the day was for him. We held a combined party for our friends who are moving to Germany and his birthday. There was a bouncy castle, which he was also super thrilled about. I'll have to figure out how to post pictures and share some, it was adorable to see the kids bouncing around having duels with the foam swords in their knight masks. Chris went to the party in his knight getup as well, he loves to follow the theme for the kids.

This past Friday, Aria had her very first soccer practice! She is so like me, she was excited for soccer, but when the day came, she was afraid to go to the practice. Branching out and trying new things can really freak her out, it's situational. She stalled with everything. Shorts were a fight, socks were a fight, shoes were a fight. While Chris was packing up the car, and I was in the back pantry packing snacks, Jace was alone in the kitchen and decided to taste test some tea tree oil. I came into the room with him making the "oh, yuck" face, and the open bottle in his hands. We called poison control on the way to practice.
Aria was adorable at practice. She's number 10 on team Purple Pony. Apparently the team coaches wanted to make it relate to My Little Pony. She was a great listener, and behaved well. As we were leaving the field, she said, "I love soccer, I want to do it every day!" It might just have been the snack talking, but I'm considering this a win!

Saturday we went to Aulani Disney Resort for an overnight stay with the Jones. They have kid-care, so after playing in the pools, splash pads, lazy river and slides all day, we dropped Ari off and went to a mostly adult dinner. Jace wasn't able to go, since he isn't potty trained, but he fell asleep on Chris at dinner. The pictures are adorable. We had a two-bedroom suite in the hotel, and each family had their own room/bathroom/balcony, which was really nice. We had some issues with our stay, but I'll fill that in later. Jace ended up with a rash on his face from the life-jacket zipper, (poor kid inherited our sensitive skin issues) and we didn't think much of it because he gets one every time he wears it. The next day he had a diaper rash, but I thought it was from the chorine or the straps that go between his legs causing another rub rash. On our way home from the resort, the rash moved to all over his body. Turns out, he has hand, foot, mouth. Poor kid. He's been super grumpy and a fussy sleeper for the past few days while fighting it off. Tonight when Chris was brushing Aria's teeth for bed, he noticed she also has the blisters in her mouth. So we are 2 for 2 in the disease department. Yay us.