Block Party

Our neighbors have 4 birthdays in May so they decided to do a block party to celebrate. They had to get 75% of the block's residents to sign off on it and I think they paid a small fee. They set up a couple grills, people donated extra food and drinks, and at one point they had out a little sprinkler, a playhouse, and lots of kids had bikes. Music played the whole time. I had no idea that many kids lived on our street. It was different. The kids had fun. Justin wasn't feeling well and slept on the couch all afternoon. A real shame as he would have loved being out longer.

And I really liked seeing all these kids out riding their bikes down the street, you can't do that all the time, too many drivers in a hurry out there. Leanna and Timmy rode our two skooters (another one of Nanny Sue's great presents!) up and down. Although it did nearly cause me a heart attack-Timothy rode next to his sister, all the way to where the street was baracaded off. She turned around and came back, apparently not noticing that Timothy did not follow suit. Luckily that 6th sense that women, particularly mothers, develop kicked in and I noticed immediately that he was missing. The little adventurer CROSSED LINDEN STREET ALONE AND WAS OFF DOWN THE BLOCK, HEADED TOWARDS HAMILTON STREET! His guardian angel was with him, thank god! I picked him up and carried him and the scooter back-the little stinker protesting indignantly all the way that he IS allowed to cross streets!!