We celebrated Max's third birthday with a party that was supposed to include some outdoor snowy fun, but didn't because it was 50 degrees that day (not that we were complaining!) and all the snow had melted. Max loved blowing out the candles of his Dora cake, opening his gifts (thanks, everyone!), and playing with his cousins.
We've kind of had a rough week this week. I get all stuffed up every time the weather changes, so sleep has been elusive, a situation that hasn't been helped by the boys' apparent pact to behave as badly as possible all week. On Monday, they "helped" me prime the bathroom walls, which was fun to watch. On Tuesday, our plumbing decided that it would be a good day to back up, causing our basement to be partially flooded with sewage. On the plus side, Mike took an unexpected night off to deal with the crisis, and the four of us went out to dinner because we couldn't bear to eat in the "poop house." Also on the plus side, the problem ended up being relatively minor (just one spot where tree roots grew through the pipe outside and plugged everything up) so it cost only hundreds of dollars, instead of the worst-case scenario they gave us of a few thousand. In the grand scheme of things, no one thing that's happened this week has been terrible, but all of the little things (don't worry, I'm not going to give you a complete list!) have added up to make this one of our more challenging weeks.
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