Madeline's First Birthday Party

I apologize, mostly to the grandparents, aunts, and uncles that weren't able to come, for being a week late posting this birthday post. We had a low key first birthday party for Madeline. We only invited her bff, Zadie, and a couple of adults. We had (kind of) a "You Are My Sunshine" theme.

 

My pictures didn't turn out as I had envisioned but here they are.

Madeline's most favorite thing to do is play peek-a-boo with her blanket. She even plays by herself and thinks it's hilarious. She loves these blankets. If one of the boys even walks near her blanket, she flips out. Is it the beginnings of a drama queen? 



She wasn't sure what to think about that cake

Then she got really upset with it 

The big kids enjoyed it...at least the icing off the top 

She finally had a little taste... 

...but wasn't too impressed 

 

Just so everyone knows...that cake I spent a couple of hours on didn't fully go to waste. When the grown ups weren't looking, Zadie found it under Madeline's chair.

Evan's 3rd birthday party

 I feel kind of bad for Evan. May is always such a busy month for us. It's Mother's day, our wedding anniversary, Evan's birthday, Brian's birthday, end of preschool fesitivites, and usually we are in Alabama...this year we have family in town a lot of the month. I just didn't have the energy to have a big birthday party. He chose two of his friends, Anderson and Caleb, to invite. It was so perfect. The three of them played a lot, the older siblings played together, and the babies played a little bit.

 

I really hate character themed things...parties, clothes, toys, etc. As much as I tried to talk him out of this, he insisted on a Batman cake. It was not as much fun to make but he loved it. 

 

 

Cole really enjoyed his cake

 

Mr Freeze froze Batman and Robin. They had to shoot them free with their water guns.

Madeline and Papa John

 

Balloon pinatas

Baby conversation

 

This expression cracks me up

Caleb loves babies

 

Decorating superhero masks

 

I think we're safe with these superheros

 

Oh these two...

 

Happy birthday sweet boy!

Luc's Space Birthday Party

Luc has been loving space stuff lately. We have been reading a lot of books about space. We took him downtown to UT's star gazing where he got to see Jupiter through a big telescope. So what else did we expect when he wanted a space birthday party. His requests were quite extreme. A rocket birthday cake that would really take off. A real spaceship that he and his friends could ride in the sky in. Luckily, he settled for less exciting ideas.

 

He loved painting his solar system.

I enjoyed making his cake.

 

This is as close to having the rocket take off as I could create. 

 

I never plan activities to do for the kids birthday parties. I think they all enjoy running around playing though.

 

Luc was very overwhelmed during gift time. I'm not really sure how to work on that. We really talk to both of the boys about not asking for or expecting gifts. We talk about less fortunate people who don't have so many things. We talk about being appreciative of what we do have. We have, by the way, been working on thank you cards but I haven't gotten them in the mail yet. Anyone have any ideas on how to teach little kids how to be grateful?

Look who turned 2...over a month ago

Obviously, I'm WAY behind on the blog. I don't have much time for blogging these days. Anyway...

Evan turned 2 while we were in Alabama. He got to have two birthday parties. We had a party in Madison with MiMi, Granddaddy, Memaw, Aunt Allison, and Uncle Jason.

 Granddaddy loves a good reason to get a ice cream cake. Evan loved the tractor cake.

 Evan had help openning presents.

 Then we had another party in Fort Deposit with GiGi, Pap John, Aunt Heff, Uncle Daniel, Crystal, Granny, Baboo, Shannon, Rory, Holden, Bec, and Adrianne. We had been talking a lot about birthday cakes. Evan wanted a "jeep and motorcycle" cake. This was the best I could do in such a short amount of time.

THANK YOU so much to everyone who helped us celebrate this big boy's 2nd birthday.

Update for Daddy

Brian is out of town right now. This is a quick update for him of what the boys have been up to. I will update more about our Alabama trip as soon as I get a chance.

Brian we miss you a ton. We can't wait for you to be home. Be safe! We love you! Call us when you can.

Evan loved his "Deep and Momocycle" cake. All of us, Baboo, Bec, Agee, Shannon and her family, Allison and John, and Granny came. He got lots of presents. He was kind of grumpy though.

Heather made a slip and slide for them. They loved it. 

Luc tried really hard to catch a fish. He wanted to catch one himself so bad. The dogs were making it pretty impossible for us though. Finally, GiGi "caught" one. As she was bass fishing, she hooked a bream in his fin as he was swimming by. The boys were very amazed. Evan kept wanting to touch it. Luc really wanted to cook him but he was just a little bigger than my hand. I taught Luc how to cast. He's pretty good at it. 

Can you find the blueberry thief? Evan ate TONS of blueberries last week. Seriously.

Luc loved swimming in the Gulf so much. He literally spend 3-4 hours in the water while we were out of the beach. He swam with his life jacket on. He and David would start up on the beach, run down the hill, and jump in the water. He thought it was a lot of fun. 

Evan loved playing in the sand. He didn't like the water at first. Once I got him used to it, we couldn't keep him out. He would float on his back with his life jacket on. You'll have to wait to see Heather's pictures for that. It was hilarious. When he got tired, he asked me to make him a bed and he went right to sleep. They were both so good on the beach. 

We miss you!