Cinco de Mayo

Today is my SIL, Gamer's birthday, but we took advantage of the ease of getting the family together on a Sunday and celebrated it then. It was convenient that it was also Cinco de Mayo since that is one of the holidays we have always enjoyed.

I think I've told you before that I typically send my SIL to the Hispanic store to buy our annual pinata because he can speak fluent Spanish and he is Hispanic so they give him a better price. We got this huge Batman pinata for $17 and I'm sure they would have charged me at least $25.

I picked up some candy on Saturday when I was at Sam's Club as well as the rest of the fixins' I needed for chicken chimis. It is such an easy recipe and it feels pretty authentic. Bossy made bean dip and I stepped way outside the box and made a Tres Leches cake. (Really I just stole the recipe from Martha Stewart.) But it turned out pretty delicious and the kids raved about it. I would have eaten a second piece, but I knew how many calories it had in it so I decided to pass.

When my sister and I first started having babies, we had this game of giving the niece or nephew a really annoying gift, like a baseball or something that made irritating noises. When my sister stopped having babies, I took up this fun little game with Bossy. Things like hammers and anything with sirens and flashing lights...all of these make Bossy just roll her eyes at me.

Isn't he cute?

But this time I think I definitely won the game. We gave Gamer two pairs of genuine boxing gloves! The kids thought they were great! I'm not sure what Gamer thought. They spent half an hour or so slugging at each other, laughing and giggling. Then Drama Queen decided she wanted to play so they laced her into the gloves.

That's why I married him!

With her very first hit she knocked Sport to the ground and he started bawling. My sweetie was appalled. "You weren't really supposed to hit him!" he accused. "It's just a game, like acting." Drama Queen was very apologetic as she helped pack up the gloves to send to Bossy's house.

Fortunately there was no permanent damage done and before long Sport was outside playing with the kids. We had a great time with our combined Fiesta/birthday party.

All that violence...first the pinata, then the boxing gloves...it was almost like the reason Cinco de Mayo was honored in the first place, to celebrate the victory of a war...
or maybe a boxing match.