Labor Day Weekend

We had the BEST Labor Day weekend.  We were visited by our friends, and the kids had a great time.  We swam for the majority of the day, then in the evening more friends visited with a bounce house.  They jumped themselves silly, ran to the woods, made s'mores and launched rockets.  The kids were so exhausted and passed out around 10.  The kids were so exhausted the next day.

Just look at Carter's face!  We had our Matilda Book Club and it was very low key.  We did make Boris Bogtrotter's chocolate cake, colored the flag of Great Britain and looked at some of the countries on a map of Europe.  Ava wanted to play a joke on Daddy and put a newt in his water, just like what happened to the Trunchbull.  Well, since we couldn't find a pretend newt we used gummy worms instead.  They thought they were so funny!

Then we relaxed, watched the movie Matilda and ate some of Boris Bogtrotter's chocolate cake. 

Funny story:  I was out running errands and Mike was home doing some yard work.  Ava and Dawson came out saying that some bad guys or maybe the dogs next door had entered the house and taken some of the chocolate cake.  Sure enough, Daddy went on an investigation and found missing cake plus crumbs all over the floor.  We just had to laugh at the chocolate cake all over their faces, crumbs on the fingers, and Ava even had some on her elbow!