Martha playing with little Jacob. "Down you go."
"Up you come."
Zack and Cami playing an organ duet while Emily looks on.
"You play the high notes and I'll play the low ones."
"Is anybody listening to us?"
Scott and Cami made cupcakes for dessert. We were actually celebrating Jacob's birthday. Each grand-child got to have a cupcake with a candle in it so everybody could blow a candle out. The first one was for Jake, but Gma had taken his pacifier out of his mouth so as you can see he wasn't too happy.
It's Jayla's turn. We all sang "Happy Birthday" each time. Big brother Tanner is waiting patiently for his turn.
Cami's turn. Next will be Zack.
"Pick it up - Smash it in your face. Yum! Yum!"
"Feel the cake - Smash it on the tray. Yum! Yum!"
"I sure enjoy wearing and eating cupcakes."
One of the events of the evening was a backyard game of croquet. Martha is taking a slug at the ball while Tanner looks on.
You go, Martha!
Cami does a flop on the ground while Jayla looks on.
Martha and Tanner taking their turns with Cami in the background and the blurr is the running Jayla.
I have no pictures to document this but later on that evening, after the adults went in the house, there came a blood-curdling scream. Tanner came crying into the house holding his head. The kids had been racing out back but while Tanner ran by, Zack had taken a croquet ball and thrown it in the direction of the running children and clocked Tanner right in the head. There was no blood, but Tanner did receive a big knot on his eye-brow. Needless to say, Zack spent a few minutes in a time-out situation until he looked at his mother and told her, "I done being a booger." He hugged his brother told him he was sorry and wanted to give him a kiss.
3 comments:
I want a cupcake with a candle to blow out!! Where's my cupcake?
I love the two handed shove of the cupcake into the mouth. Way to devour it, Jake!
I bet that really hurt getting hit in the head by a croquet ball, but the response by the culprit is priceless.
Cami still talks about how the kids got their own birthday cupcake! Thanks to Jakey for sharing his day. We had some fierce croquet going on, obviously.
It looked like Martha and Tanner were playing by the rules, and the stand-out pink shoes worn by Martha were helping her tremendously. Oh, the joy of backyard games, involving hard equipment and and wooden devices that look like great hitting sledge hammers, I have had my fair share of croquet "accidents" thank you to Uncle Dan, to the point when croquet came out, I went in the house. But for some reason there was no time-outs for the perpetrator, and the victim endured many bruises and alot of blood from nose orifices. This memory makes me want my own cupcake to, extra chocolate.
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