Diggin' the Gig

 Kim and Dylan met us at the festival and everyone enjoyed watching Daddy play some tasty guitar with the Brian McDermott Band.

Festival Fairy

Dexter and Ian got their hands painted by a very sweet festival fairy.  Ian got an elephant whose legs went down his fingers and Dexter got a cloud with a rainbow and some sparkly raindrops (when the fairy asked Dexy what color he wanted, he said "white" so she came up with the cloud/rainbow idea). 

Overexcited

You'd never guess that 30 minutes prior to these photos being taken, Ian and Dexter (and Jason, Elissa, and I) were in the bathroom covered in vomit. 

Ian, Jason, and Elissa came over to our house to have some dinner before we all headed out to Ben's gig at a local festival. Ben hadn't yet arrived home from teaching but was looking forward to having some pizza before running off to play the festival. Dexter had been excited to see Ian, Elissa, and Jason all day (waking Mommy and Daddy up before 5am asking, "Are my friends here yet?")  Needless to say, Dexy and Ian excitedly ran around playing as soon as "Dexter's friends" arrived around 4pm.  Around 4:30, Elissa and I were in the kitchen heating up pizza and preparing dinner when we hear everything go quiet and Jason shout from the living room, "Napkins!  We need napkins!"  I handed Elissa a bunch of napkins and she ran to the living room. As soon as she got there, I hear Elissa shouting, "No! Bowl!  We need a bowl!"  At this point, I grab the bowl that we were going to use for the salad and run out to the living room only to see Jason holding Ian on his lap, puke projecting from Ian all over Jason and Dexter, sympathetically puking as he's running towards me.  I hand the bowl off to Elissa and get Dexy into the bathroom.  His "episode" was minor but still required a total change of clothes. While Dexter is standing naked in the bathroom, Elissa and Jason bring Ian in and put him the tub, peeling off vomit-covered clothes. Eventually, everyone settled down, got into a new change of clothes (Ben said to Jason when he got home, "Hey, I have that same shirt!"), and there was surprisingly little to clean up on the couch and floor. I said to Elissa, "When Ben gets home and we tell him about this, the only thing he's going to be thinking is, 'thank God I wasn't there for that!'" The boys not only ate dinner but enjoyed chocolate cupcakes before we all headed off to the festival.