Party!

So the party was wonderful. Virginia rented this bouncing castle thing the older kids played in all afternoon, until it was too dark and I turned off the air. William went in for a little while, but for a long time resisted it. He went in when I took a nap with Andrew.

They both looked cute in their matching track suits of Thomas The Tank Engine. They had had a fresh shower when I arrived after picking up Paquita, Jimmy, Judy and Brian. Some of Virginia's co-workers and friends came, with Hannah around William's age. Some of Diana's work friends came, Elaine was in a good mood. I finally got to meet Frankie, his mother and father. Natasia and Robyn are sweet cousins to William. There were some relatives from Ecuador visiting too. Jacky, her mother, Zsolt, his mother, Nichole and Christian came. Joseph came. Evan, Ava, Micheal and Josephine were there. It was chaos at times, we didn't end up playing pin the 1 on Thomas. We did do the cake and the pinata. I slept in Queens, so I want to write this and get over there before they open up all the presents. Paquita gave William a Thomas "laptop" which is really cute. His first laptop! We're really lucky to have Paquita in our lives. And Aida and Virginia, Abuela, Judy and Ebo were all slaving away. It's really quite an amazing thing the way the family pitches together. Well done!

Some things I forgot to mention yesterday: Andrew got his 8th tooth. We took them for haircuts. I put the boys to bed alone, without the boys protesting so much and Diana coming in. Easter went by. Next weekend is William's 3rd birthday. William does slow motion man sometimes. He's got the cute saying, "Join me daddy." I can't resist. Diana has had a 5 day weekend, after 4 days of inservice training.