For the first time in three years, we did not host the neighborhood Super Bowl Party yesterday evening. Due to scheduling conflicts (it was originally supposed to be a girl’s weekend in the city for Renay, but ended up being a guy’s weekend in Wisconsin for Brian), we just didn’t have time to squeeze it in. (By the way, Renay’s weekend was rescheduled not canceled so no hard feelings from me or anything.) As the day progressed, I felt like we really needed to do something, even if it was only the 5 of us. Brian jumped on board and started cooking up some awesome chili and other treats. I made him pick a side for the game (he picked the Saints…obviously still sore about the whole Colts beating the Bears in the Super Bowl a few years back). Logan was on Brian’s team so I found a nice yellow shirt for him to wear. Aiden and I were assigned to Colts so I dressed us in blue and white. We made a board to both teach the boys about football and to keep them focused on the game. It had velcro dots along the top that attached 4 big red circles which represented downs plus a line drawn horizontally across the middle with 10 marks. Each mark had a velcro dot on it and we made a little football that traveled along to the line to represent yards gained / yards to go. When it was the Colts drive, me and Aiden controlled the board and vice versa (by the way, Brady was just goofing around and we called him the ref) Whenever the opposing team got a first down, they got to make the other ‘players’ do something funny. This was all fine and dandy when Aiden and I were making Logan and Daddy hop around like bunnies, cluck like chickens and spin around in circles, but when it was OUR turn to do silly things, Aiden crossed his arms, did his “angry face” and claimed that it wasn’t FAIR! Logan was being a total sport, doing silly dances and chanting things like “stinky Saints, stinky Saints…oh wait…I’m on the Saint’s team!…right?…I mean, Stinky Colts! Stinky Colts!” To which Aiden would reply in an angry voice “Don’t call me stinky!” We finally just gave up on the whole team concept, but still took turns controlling the board.

After staying up late and having fudge pops, once he was all tucked in his bed ready to sleep, Logan said to me, “mommy…when I woke up this morning, I didn’t even know we were having a party today! It was the most awesome night ever!”  I told him that’s one of the cool things about life…you never know what fun the day will bring AND another great thing about life is that you can create your own fun. We said we could try to create some fun every day this week…better get cracking on some ideas I guess!

Logan and Aiden decorated a sign for our mantle.

Near the end of the night, I told Logan to go get some PJs. All of his were in the wash so he decided to wear this little ensemble: his new Yoda Star wars tee shirt plus track pants. He thought that that tee shirt might be a little too cold, so he put his bulkiest sweater underneath. I was dying laughing! This is a kid who kicks off covers and sweats through most light pajamas at night. I brought him a long-sleeved white tee shirt instead, but I couldn’t resist taking a picture (and he couldn’t resist a little modeling action!)