I survived!!

We made it through the birthday party mostly unscathed. Isabelle did great. She really enjoyed playing with her friends from school. They played duck duck goose, hot potato to open gifts, ate cupcakes and ice cream, and finally went swimming. I was very relieved and impressed that Isabelle did great in the pool without me. We put on her water wings and she had a great time. The only hitch was that the birthday girl got a Nintendo DS for her birthday. Isabelle decided that she wants one and has her Daddy convinced that she needs one for her birthday. I think that we should wait a while longer. The Leapster she has now keeps her entertained and has educational games. The DS has just entertainment games which are pretty pricey. What do you think? Nintendo DS for a five year old??

We are thinking about taking the kids to Dinosaur World in Cave City this weekend. As I have mentioned here previously Charlie is fascinated with dinosaurs. We visited a dinosaur museum in Pigeon Forge over the summer. It was sort of small and not so great in my eyes, but Charlie hasn't stopped talking about since June. He asks frequently when he can go back to see the dinosaurs. Hopefully things will work out for us to go this weekend.

We, well actually just Chad, finally got pictures loaded on the computer from our camera. Here

are our little munchkins on Halloween.

Pool Party

I broke down this morning and RSVP'd for the pool party of one of Isabelle's classmates. She is super excited about going. I, on the other hand, am not!!! Isabelle really enjoys swimming, but she does not swim on her own yet. (Note to self: Add swimming lessons to the to do list for this summer) The invitation stated that parents were invited to swim if children needed assistance. So I guess that I will be getting in a bathing suit to help her out. The way I see it, there a few things that I have working against me here. One, I have never meet any of these people before and two I have not worked hard at getting myself to the point that I would feel really comfortable even putting a bathing suit on in front of family. I take full responsibilty for the fact that I am facing this horrible situation as I have not tried really hard to make myself presentable after having a baby 10 months ago, but having three children has not been overly kind to my body. Isn't the saying that it took nine months to put it on, it can take nine months to take it off? It has been ten, so I guess my time is up. I would much rather have my children than a stellar appearance in a bathing suit, but really I would much rather just not have to wear a bathing suit out in public. I realize that this all sounds awful and no I am not obsessed with appearance, but I just sort of like being able to cover up things that I would prefer others not to see. It has always been so comforting when coming back to work after having had a baby... and maybe even ten months later to be able to put on my lab coat and hide what actually lies beneath. Now I have to put on a bathing suit :( I did try to talk her out of going, offering that we might have more fun at home, but that was not part of her plan. Also I feel bad for not letting her go on her field trip a few weeks ago because she had been a little sick and I didn't want her out in the cold. So as it stands, we will be hitting the pool on Saturday!! Pictures to come soon, no not of the pool party, but of Halloween. We had a perfect Cinderalla, T-Rex, and monkey.