Musician or Magician?

 Sawyer's social calendar has been chalked full these days! This past weekend his little friend Payton, from Kindergarten had a birthday! Now this was very exciting because there was a magician coming!!! Sawyer had never seen a magic show before but loves to watch it on TV. He's also pretty awed when Bill 'magically' produces mints out of napkins whenever we eat out....pretty sure our slight-of-hand-pass-daddy-the-mint-under-the-table won't last much longer....but for now, Daddy can do magic.

Sawyer, Davin and Liam just being....themselves!

We arrived at Payton's house and immediately were swept into party mode! The kids went wild with the balloons-just bonking each other and collapsing in heaps of laughter! 

I was a nervous wreak the whole time that Sawyer was going to break something! But I guess if you invite 17 little kindergartners over for the afternoon and give them cake and balloons, you're asking for it!

No matter how much fun you are having, or who is at the party...there is always time to pick your nose. GROSS!!!

Thank God the magician FINALLY arrived. And I must say, he was terrific. He had their attention from the get-go! He was dynamic and entertaining. The kids just loved him!

You could tell this was not his first rodeo (err, I mean magic show) Because he handled all those questions, giggly bodies and ear piercing laughter like nothing! 

Of course his tie would fly up and whack him in the face while he was talking , which was always a HUGE hit.

 He pulled coins out of ears, rabbits out of his hat...all of which was met with oooohs and ahhhhs!

Sawyer was memorized. He had been telling people for a week that a musician was going to be at the party rather than a magician :) I'm sure he has no idea how lucky he is that this guy showed up rather than a harpist. 

And here is the Birthday girl. How ADORABLE is she???? And of course since she was the birthday girl, a pigeon magically appeared inside her hat while it was on her head! It did a lap around the living room and came right back! Payton 's mom knows how to throw a great kids party but she didn't overlook all these parents that come with either....she had wonderful snacks and appetizers for the adults along with wine and mixed drinks! It sure beat sitting in a booth a Chucky Cheese! 

As if the kids weren't hyper enough, they chowed down on pizza, juice boxes, cake and ice cream! 

I have to say.....for as awkward and icky Sawyer says the girls are......they sure do LOVE him! The moment we walked into the party, he had at least two little ladies trailing around after him! And he can't get away from them fast enough! LOL I'm sure the tides will shift in about ten years and he'll be sorry! 

And here's what the other one has been up to! This is a repeat off of facebook....sorry! Raylan's new thing that he does at least three times a day is to crawl over to the entryway, pull the rug up over his head, realize he hates it and then throws a fit because he can't get out.......sigh..........

His other favorite thing to do is find the few things in the house that he isn't supposed to touch.....and go touch them. His favorites are cell phone chargers, the trash baskets in the office, little chunks of  salt that fall off people's shoes from the driveway, pulling my dish towels off the handles of the oven, eating every minuscule piece of anything that's on the floor and going through mommy's purse....and finding gum in it.

He found the stairs the other day. I heard him crying a bit and found him halfway down.....goodness.....so now the baby gate is up all the time, but with the way our stairs are, there is one step that can't be sectioned off.....and he goes for every chance he gets. He army crawls right over to it, puts his hand down, teeters on his tummy, face plants down it, cries and then looks at you like "Why didn't you tell me that was there?!?!?" We pick him up, cuddle him and put him down IN ANOTHER ROOM and he goes right back for more pain..... sigh. Oh well! He's cute and that's all that matters!