Max's sleep over

Well, our big boy will officially be turning 10 on Tuesday. I just cannot believe it! It seems like just yesterday that I would sit and watch him swinging in his baby swing or take naps cuddling with him on the couch. He is such a blessing to our family and we all adore him with all our hearts. We had celebrated his birthday with the extended family back in January when we did the big birthday party for the 5 winter birthdays in our family. However, we had his friend birthday party last night. His theme was Star Wars: the Clone Wars. Five of his buddies came over for a sleep over. They were all so well behaved and it was a pleasure having them here. (I am not sure the girls agree. They thought the boys were way too loud. I kept trying to remind them that it was a party. I asked them if they wanted five more brothers and they quickly said no. Poor girls.)

The boys, Max (of course), Alex, Justin, John, Gabe, and Liam all seemed to have a great time having Nerf gun wars, playing video games, and just hanging out together away from school. We asked them to start settling down about 1:00 a.m. They started to watch the movie Despicable Me. According to the boys, some finished the movie and others did not quite make it. (Sydney woke me up at 2:45 and said the boys were still watching the movie. I thought, "They better not be!" I checked and it was just the music playing over and over. They fell asleep without turning it off.) The boys did not make an appearance until about 7:40 a.m. Their original plan was to stay up until 2:00 a.m. and get up at 5:00 a.m. Ugg! Glad that did not happen.

I wanted to mention a couple of the funny moments during the evening-

*A couple of them ran to get their DS systems so they could take pictures when it was time for cake. You gotta love modern technology.

*Alex told us that he had started reading the TRON book that he had given Max. I said, "Oh, you have one too?" He replied, "No, I was reading that one." We started to tease him that he gave Max a used gift. It was so funny!

*Alex asked for duct tape. They wanted to tape Gabe's mouth...guess he was talking too much. Sorry, Alex...no duct tape for you!

*Liam mentioned that the one gift they gave Max was a gift that his mom had forgotten to give someone at Christmas. Bet his mom did not mean for him to tell us that! (not that it matters to us, of course)

*We had heard from one of the moms that we were apparently THE party of the weekend and the boys just could not wait to come over. Talk about pressure!!!! I hope they had a great time!!!!

Happy 10th Birthday, Max Anthony!!!!