Finn's 5th Birthday.....

June 15, 2009

oh my goodness! today was such a busy day!!! After the kids went to sleep last night we decorated the living room and Finn's chair at the table.
Then we got to sleep! :) Finn was waking up around 6:00am and so Ulli and Steven(mom and dad) went in with sparklers to wake him up! :) i heard them starting to go in his room so i joined them and it was so cute!! he jumped out of bed when the last sparkler went out and ran downstairs to see his seat at the table and open his presents! so excited was he!! :)

well I helped Steven make breakfast(schoko mussli-- like oatmeal with craisins and chocolate chips in it!) and we ate. we got the boys ready for the day and the construction workers showed up.... the new shower leaked did i already say that? and it ran all down the wall clear down to the cellar. so they pounded and drilled away at the wall upstairs to find the problem and Ulli and I tried to clean some and keep the boys entertained and keep finn from freaking out too much every time the phone rang(a birthday guest for me?!?!) we also tried to keep things cleaned up a BIT because the house had been so clean before.

I made a fruit salad which tasted really yummy fyi! and I also baked the cake and Ulli decorated it!!(this is not the amazing one he took to school... that one was castle shaped! this one was flat and had a picture of pajamas on it cuz he had a sleep over) it was so cute!! then finally the guys found the problem... a really really really small hole in part of the pipe. so they fixed it and left. we cleaned up all the disgusting shavings and everything from the construction and the birthday guests started to arrive!!

one by one little kid after little kid showed up until we finally had a house full! 9 kids aged 4-5!! and it was raining at first so we were in the house... crazy house!! finn's room was a disaster!!! but the kids were sooo cute!! after they all got here we went down and ate birthday cake! yummy yummy!! he opened his presents from his friends and by this time it had stopped raining so we went outside!(thank goodness!!) We went out and the kids did an egg race and then they played this hot cold game where they get blindfolded and then someone hides a pot(on the tiles) and they have a wood spoon and crawl around the ground trying to find the pot then they get whatever's hiding under it when they find it. :) it was really cute!!

uhh... they did some other stuff just running around and then we went on a treasure hunt(Ulli, the mom hid a box of treasures at the park nearby) we wandered through the neighborhood by Ulli telling them a definition of something and them running to find it!(Cherry tree.... big dirt mound.... playground....) until finally we found it!! :) :) when we got back to the house I found out that we did this to waste the time until dinner, and to make the ones sleeping over tired!! :)

So we ate and the parents started to come pick up their kids.... finally all the kids left except 4! Finn, Malena, Elaine(my favorite little girl in all of Germany!) and Moritz!(Elaine and Moritz are Finn's best friends) Like I said, Elaine is my favorite little girl!! she's 4 years old and has been so cute with me! she learned fast that i can't really speak german(i told her) and so she would say things slow for me, and explain in small words what she was saying... and what all the other kids said. and if i still didn't understand she'd take me by the hand and point, or walk over to the mom or dad of my host family and politely tell them what i didn't understand. sooo cute!! Her parents and the parents of my host family are the god parents of each other's kids, so I'll be watching her and her sister Josie occasionally too(Josie is 7 and just as cute as Elaine!)
Well the 4 kids slept in the Cellar except they didn't really sleep until about midnight!!! It really was sooo cute though!! I loved the kids!

I sure felt stupid though having all these little kids trying to speak simple and explain for me instead of the other way around.... i learned a lot from them though!! :)

the pictures are: Finn's birthday place decorations, All the kids sitting at the talbe like pirates at dinner(feet on the table!), the little boy in blue is the birthday boy himself doing the Egg race, and the little girl in white is my new little friend Elaine!
uhh... dunno what happened with the pictures over lapping but if you just click on them you can see them big! :) sorry!