Happy Birthday Ben (Again)

We spent the vast majority of another really hot day at the pool today. We got to the JCC around 10:30 this morning. They had a Father's Day party going on with food, music, and games. Rebecca enjoyed both pool and splash park equally, though she is quite a handful in the pool. She likes to belly flop into the water, whether you're ready to catch her or not. So you have to keep an eye on her every single second. (At one point I turned my head just for a second to see where Ben was, and SPLASH! I grabbed her just as her head went under).

Since we had arrived in separate cars (me via the grocery store and Joel via the gym) I took Becca home around 2 so she could take a nap, and Joel and Ben stayed until about 3. There were several of Ben's school friends there and he was having so much fun that getting him out of the pool was practically impossible. He was finally lured out when he realized that Joel's parents were already at our house waiting for him (with birthday presents).

It was Ben's choice for dinner tonight in honor of his birthday, and he chose PF Chang's, for the sole reason that they bring you those three kinds of sauces that you can mix together with the vinegar and whatever else, and Ben's favorite thing in the world is mixing his own sauces and then making the rest of us taste them (with a glass of water close at hand). We brought his birthday cake with us and had the waiter bring it out after we ate. It was an Iron Man cake, but as you might notice in the video the Iron Man cake topper fell over at some point en route to the table. Ben was not shy about blowing out his candles this year (Or singing happy birthday to himself).