I cannot believe that child is 1 already! She actually turned 1 last week, but we had her birthday party last night. She is such a little doll baby!!!
I took 104 pictures yesterday, so I’m sure there are going to be tons in this post, but I really tried to edit it down to the best ones I took. That was hard!
The glitter filled balloons that the kids had a blast popping. Katiana loved it when the glitter hit her in the face and she was all sparkly.
What is that I see? A Monchhichi? I sounded like this in Target when I saw it Squeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeel! Pato actually turned the cart around to see what was wrong with me. This was one of my absolute favorite toys when I was a little girl. My niece totally had to have one! I’m getting one for my other niece for her birthday next Saturday, even though my sister doesn’t remember these and actually thinks they are a little creepy. I think my girls need one too. I found them on Amazon too. Let’s all sing – Monchhichi Monchhichi. Oh so soft and cuddly!
Alyce playing with balloons
My little nephew Carter – isn’t he a cutie? Those eyes are going to break hearts when he’s older.
My niece Taylor – she’s growing up to be such a beautiful girl!
Who is that I see? The birthday girl!!! Cambria and her mom Shelley.
I adored her little outfit! Shelley got her the tutu, which came with the headband. Then she bought the pink shirt and had someone embroider 1 and Cambria’s name on it.
My sister Abby and my cutie patootie little niece Mikayla – who might, just might be getting her Aunt Heather’s curls. Her hair is curling up in the back at the bottom. I’d be a proud Auntie. 
Had to get a close up of the headband.
Daddy (my brother Josh) and Cambria. Do you not love this picture?
My husband (Pato), who still makes my heart skip a beat.
Katiana, Cambria, and Josh opening presents. Totally random picture. I didn’t even ask Josh to look at me, just snapping away, this ended up being another favorite of mine.
Jordan was feeling down. You know when your a preteen/teenager. Who do you want to hang out with most? Your other cousins of the same gender who are close to your age. I understood both sides. Jordan felt left out, but I remember being that age and I just wanted to hang out with my cousin Wendy, not the boys.
Christiano telling Pato a story about something.
Opening more presents, she was getting the hang of it.
Kayla looks so serious here. Not sure what she was thinking about.
I’m telling you, it’s in his blood. Child was born to play soccer. He’s been kicking the ball since he could walk.
What’s that I see? My brother Steve almost smiling for a picture?
Cake time!
I took tons more, but I’ll put those in another post. I brought along some toys I had gotten to review so the kids could play. I’ll get that up later.
We had a good time, all in all, except for Jordan. He insisted on being depressed the whole party. He just wanted to play with Taylor and Syndey. (I noticed I’m missing pics of a few of the kids, it was hard to catch them, they kept running to the playground.) We tried to get him involved with us, but he didn’t want to hang with the adults or the little kids. It’s tough being the only boy that’s in that age group.
In other news, I will be taking my kids to school and picking them up for awhile.
Yesterday they came in the house, and the only word I can use is to say they were out of control excited, and not in a good way.
I don’t know what the kids were doing on the bus, but the bus driver got angry. He hit a curb, then slammed on the brakes saying, this is how I treat the high schoolers (or something like that). Some kids flew out of their seat. Jordan hit his neck on the seat in front of him. Katiana almost hit the floor, the little boy who lives above us did hit the floor. He also made comments about how if he hit the brakes they’d meet his windshield at 35 mph (which, I have said to my kids when they take their seat belt off when I’m driving, but combined with the other, does not make me feel very good about putting my childrens’ safety in his hands.)
I left a message with the principal after school and another after I talked to the head of the busses. I didn’t feel to confident in her response. She said that in his defense, he was driving a snub nose bus and it’s very easy to hit the curb in those. I understand that, I have hit the curb myself a few times, but to combine hitting the curb, with slamming on the brakes, and the comment about the high schoolers leads me to believe that it was intentional and this is not the first time he’s done something like that.
I told her if the kids were acting up on the bus that the bus driver needed to pull the stinking bus over and wait for them to calm down. Then he should have gone back to the barn after dropping them all off and started calling parents. Not putting their safety in jeopardy like that.
She said she’d take care of it, but she’s told me that before and it’s come back to bite Jordan. I don’t have a lot of faith in her, but I do have faith in the principal. I am really hoping some action will be taken. Kids could have been hurt yesterday, and honestly, I don’t know that no one wasn’t hurt. Jordan said one kid said, he almost broke my nose. 
I don’t know what that guy was thinking when he did that. I don’t know where our district hires their bus drivers from anymore. When I was in school, we LOVED the bus driver. She was awesome. The one we have now pulled what he did yesterday. The one last year was actually good. I liked him and so did the kids. The one before that, she was HORRIBLE and mean. And when I talked to the head of busses about some of the things she did on the bus she said she’d talk to her about them and not mention Jordan. She mentioned Jordan.
Then the bus driver called Jordan out in front of the entire bus and blamed him for her getting in trouble.
Excuse me? How old are you? Are you not an adult? For real? At the time Jordan was 9. You are going to call out a 9 year old in front of 70 kids and blame him for your getting in trouble. It was your actions that caused you to get in trouble, not Jordan’s.
Now that I’m steamed up, I think I’ll go get some stuff done.
Have a great day!
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