September 2019

Still at the condo, Christian had fun squirrel watching on his birthday September 1st.


Then doing some gift opening,




and cake.


We drove down to Braeggers and the b-day celebration continued.




That night at home, Bud got his highest score ever in Yatzee!


The next day we went bowling as a family birthday party for him


and played in the arcade there.








On September 4th we finally found the source of the screaming we had heard for nearly a week in the weed/reed patch in the back northeast corner of our house. It was a single, tiny abandoned kitten which was so dehydrated it was nearly nonresponsive at first. The animal shelter was already closed, and Christian wanted desperately to try to save the sweet little thing. So I drove him to PetsMart where we bought a kitten bottle and formula.

I told him I was 95% sure that she wouldn't make it, but he cared for her all night, feeding her and helping her potty every few hours. She was just starting to seem better, but then passed away in her sleep. It was a devastating experience for our whole family, but especially my kind hearted boy.

Because his actual birthday weekend is never conducive to friend birthday parties due to Labor Day, we were trying to decide what day to have it when Christian saw that in a few weeks it would be Friday the 13th. He thought that it would be cool to have a party that day! Here is his digital invitation (we just sent it to his friends by text to save us having to drive around, and also they could access it easily and it wouldn't get lost)


On the 6th I pulled a bunch of artwork & pics off our wall decor:
Bud-










Faith-




On the 11th Christian got his school I.D.


Here are some pictures from Bud's party on the 13th:
knife wound cupcakes


Jason on his banner


eyeball deviled eggs, just because they're creepy




gift bags full of candy, especially big bundles of Blow Pops I'd gotten extremely cheap out of a clearance cart at Smith's


They played night games like Fugitive outside, then came in so he could open gifts.

Just three friends stayed to watch Lights Out (I had recorded the original Friday the 13th off t.v. but weren't sure if it was still appropriate for kids, so we went with a horror movie we had seen and which was only PG-13).

August 21st was Brandt's baptism.




Faith & Jonah looking gorgeous for Davis’ homecoming dance on the 28th. He asked her to the dance with a huge stack of paper with only a few words per page, and candy in between. She answered with a printed, "I would be SODA-lighted to go to the dance with you" and took him out to Fizz for a soft drink. They still managed to have fun even though some jerk exploded spoiled chocolate milk in the gym!
















We took Bud school shopping on the 29th and he picked a bunch of fun t-shirts at Target. Here is one of his faves: