On his actual birthday it was mostly a normal day. He worked, I cooked dinner (buddha bowls as per his request), and then he went and did our "Doomsday Shop" and we watched a movie in the evening. I felt a little weird not doing anything special for his birthday, but I knew I was planning a celebration for him for Saturday.
We woke up yesterday morning at 5:15 when the power went out. Dom's sound machine turned off of course, so he awoke in a panic. We brought him in to our bed in the hopes he'd go back to sleep. He talked for an hour and a half, and then maybe slept for a little bit. I got about 20 minutes of sleep after that. Since we couldn't make breakfast or anything we took a little family trip to Tim Hortons. While we were there we bumped into a neighbour who said our power just came back on. Phew!!
Emilia was clearly very excited to be out of the house.
I was planning to have our families over for dinner, and then everyone was going to go bowling at Clover Lanes, and come back here for dessert/snacks/beer tasting. With the whole COVID-19 outbreak, MANY things are shutting down, and crowds/public gatherings are being strongly discouraged. Given the potential for germ transmission at bowling we opted to cancel the reservation. I wasn't sooo set on bowling, I just wanted to do something different.
In the end, we had 14 adults and 3 toddlers at our house yesterday! Everyone showed up around 4:00. I made two big pots of tortellini soup (one hot, one mild), and asked others to bring a couple sides and snacks for later. The soup went over very well and every last bite was eaten! Lots of people brought beer, and we opened and sampled them as we wished throughout the evening. It was an informal tasting. Everyone had their own glass, and just tried whatever they wanted, or whatever was open!
Since we couldn't go bowling, Dave secretly asked his parents to bring their Wii so we could do some Wii bowling. That turned out to be a super fun idea! Dominic also very much enjoyed Grandpa's old hockey table he brought over. He sat at that thing all evening asking people to come play, and cheering that he scored no matter which net the puck went into.
Grandpa and Opa were standing together and Emilia got confused pointing at them and saying, "TWO!"
After the littles went to bed, those who remained played a game of Pictionary and ate more food/snacks. Larry, Shelley, Allana and myself VS Scott, Ashleigh, David and Gabriel. We won :)
Larry & Shelley went home, and the last 6 of us played some Cards Against Muggles. It was a super fun evening, and I hope David felt special, loved and appreciated!
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