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Thursday, August 28, 2014

Happy 2nd Birthday, Olivia!

Sunday was Kyle's friend Olivia's 2nd birthday. Many of the Loyola friends got together to celebrate Olivia at a beautiful park downtown. It turned out to be a beautiful - albeit H.O.T. - morning, but we were able to cool down under the trees and enjoy some delicious bbq and nutella cake from Molly's Cupcakes. Kyle had a blast jumping around in the giant castle jumping jack and running through the bubbles. Kyle is such a runner that it really scares us sometimes. He's a busy kid, and doesn't always look where he is running to. He also doesn't always turn around or stop when someone is shouting at him to stop for the good of his own safety. All of sudden Kyle took off for the swings on Sunday after he had been playing nicely with the bubble machine with some of the other kids. I ran after him, shouting for him to stop, but in typical Kyle fashion, he ignored my calls and proceeded to run as fast as he could, unfortunately running straight into a little boy's forward motion on the swing set. The little boy's foot hit Kyle directly in the face, causing our little boy to fall backwards to the ground. Ooooh no. Waterworks galore. It took a whole bottle of water to get Kyle to stop crying, but once he did, and once we realized nothing was physically wrong with him (thank goodness!), he spent the rest of the afternoon reminding us that he was "HIT BY A SWINGER!"

Neighborhood Buddies :)

Kyle, Jacob, Hannah, and Josh blowing bubbles in our yard before dinner.

Train @ Ravinia

Here we were. 2pm Saturday afternoon. Black skies. Dark clouds. Then all of a sudden, complete downpour. We were a little nervous how the weather would continue to morph throughout the evening, but everything cleared up perfectly and we were able to enjoy a fun night out at Ravinia with Kara and Mark, and Jim and Sylvia. Train is my favorite non-country group so it was great to experience them live again for the first time in 3 years.