This morning Logan and I attended Syrus’s birthday party at Pump It Up Jr.  Logan did not need any warming up at all; once the door was opened to us, he went inside, took off the shoes and ran into one of the bouncy houses.  He played inside the basketball jumpy house and the obstacle one, and agreed to do the slide one after I went with him once.  Logan seemed more social today; he played with his friends Nalini and Alex, and he was extra friendly with one of mothers, Masumi.  He asked Masumi to go with him to play and he even reached out to hold her hand.  I think he was fascinated with her tummy as she was 8 month pregnant.  Logan even asked her about why her tummy was so big.  After the jumpy house, we moved on to the eating room to have some pizza and cake before we said our thanks and goodbyes.

     The morning was not as fun for Stuart as he was called with some issues at work, so it was not easy taking care of Connor, feeding him lunch while troubleshooting.  Stuart managed to do all that and put Connor to nap just right before Logan and I returned home.  Logan and I also went to take a nap so we could get ready for the second half of the day.

     Ted and I have been talking about cioppino since we all were at the Fisherman’s Wharf a couple of weeks ago, so we decided to have a homemade one today.  Ted and Michelle graciously offered to cook while we brought over the seafood.  We packed up to arrive at the Kaos shortly after 4pm, and we first spent a long time in their backyard.  Both Logan and Connor managed to get on their bikes

while Mckayla and Marcus showed off their biking skills.  It was fun seeing all four kids riding, but that was a short lived moment as they quickly moved on to something else.  Logan and Mckayla played well together; they were running around looking for “snakes” or sometimes monsters. Connor always wanted to follow the big kids copying what they were doing while Marcus only joined them occasionally.  They all ran around for a long time before we returned inside the house to play with toys.   We finally gathered to have the delicious dinner; we must have spent a long time eating as we were so stuffed afterward and we almost finished two full pots of cioppino.  Our boys had a decent amount of fish, pasta and veggies too.  It was an incredible dinner.  After a short break, we gathered to have some desserts.  The kids were so lucky to have an drumstick ice cream each; they were all so happy and quiet while eating.  Logan, Mckayla and Marcus all finished their shares and were excused from the table yet Connor was still savoring his cone of ice cream.  I eventually had to take the remaining half away as it was all melting, and Connor was very sad about that.  We finally had to say bye to the Kaos as it was after 8pm.  The drive home was nice as the kids enjoyed chasing and looking at the full moon that we had tonight.

     Connor was sweet and went to sleep easily.  But according to Stuart, Logan got sad after saying goodnight to me; he cried/sobbed while putting on his pajama.  He did calm down shortly after Stuart started reading to him.  Logan must have been tired from the long fun day.