Happy Mother's Day!

We started celebrating Mother's Day on Tuesday with Muffins with Mom at Amelia's preschool. The kids did a really cute job of decorating the classroom and making all the moms presents. Amelia made me a placemat with her handprint and flowers on it and she wrote "I love mom" on it. The kids also potted flowers and decorated the pots for us.
This is Amelia's pot of flowers. Unfortunately, me and plants don't get along. I tried to at least keep it alive until real Mother's Day but it is already looking a little sad. Behind us are all the kids handprints designed into flowers, it was very cute. We were served lemonade, muffins, fruit and cheese. Amelia whispered to me, "Mom, if you don't like something, you don't have to eat it but just leave it on your plate." It seems her teacher went over some etiquette with them before the moms showed up!
This is on Saturday at the Beau Rivage Casino. We celebrated a little early because Steve had to work on Sunday. We all went out for dinner and then went to a show called "Y." It was kind of a Chinese and Russian circus with a cirque solie feel to it. Lots of wild costumes, people flipping and spinning in the air and jumping through hoops kept the kids very entertained. They sat mesmerized in their seats for the whole hour. That alone was worth buying the tickets! The kids still haven't stopped talking about their favorite parts of the show.

This is today, real Mother's Day finally! We went with our friends Marian, Patrick and Ronan since both daddies were working (although Jim is a little farther away, he is on deployment in Iraq). So Marian and I thought, we'll take the kids to a nice brunch after church, it will be great. Unfortunately, we stood in line for an hour and a half! We couldn't believe it, the poor kids were starving. So our "brunch" turned into very late lunch. Thankfully though the kids were really good in line, they whined less than Marian and I. While waiting in line we were talking about Marian's pregnancy, she is due in September. We said to Luke, "see Miss Marian's baby is in her tummy, that is Ronan's little brother,etc). Then we went on talking, after awhile I looked down and Luke was lying on the floor on his back looking up Marian's dress! He was trying to see Marian's baby he said! Sometimes I forget how literal kids are.

My favorite Mom's day present was a vase of flowers left on the table for me this morning before I had woken up. Stephen had traced the kids handprints and made them into flowers with pipe cleaners for the stems. They were so cute!