Play dates

I hosted a play date this morning, I think it was 20 kids though half were infants. About a year ago a play date with this crowd was half as many kids. Fertile bunch. Would you like to know the highlights? Please, learn from my mistakes.

1. Realized that a new rule for play dates is "HIDE ALL THE PAINT" and oh yes, that includes the sidewalk paint. I caught three children with paint. Another child was caught by a mother moments before they took a swig of it (don't worry it's non-toxic according to the packaging) but not before they smeared it all over their brand new Elmo t-shirt and the patio. The child's mother was hiding from the child who kept insisting on swinging. For like an hour. Um, yes, that was MY child, thank you for asking.
2. Questioned why in the hell I vacuum and mop the floor BEFORE play dates? Might as well just start out dirty instead of wasting that energy because I will be spending quite a bit of time vacuuming play-doh and crushed goldfish crackers and mopping up what I really hope was a smashed brownie on the kitchen floor.
3. I think the whole morning could be best summed up by the fact that when I was cleaning up I realized I had some leftover lemonade (home made thank you very much) and my first thought was "oh that'd be awesome with vodka."

I will leave you with cuteness. As people were leaving my daughter waved and said "goodbye friends." It was so sweet I nearly dropped my vodka.