My mom did balloon animals for everyone and they were crazy jumping around...but Granny handled it well:) There were balloons everywhere and kids running in every direction...I guess you could say it was a typical 2 and 4 year olds birthday party! It was great!
and more presents! As you can see they got a tons of toys...Reese got a bunch of Thomas the Train stuff...Greg and I got him a Thomas the Train Table and he got all the trains and tracks too...he loves it! Abby got some My Little Pony stuff, lots of crafty things for her to do, a Leapster and....lots of other great things! I think all and all they had a pretty good day...wouldn't you agree?
Well these are too cute...Reese here is giving you a huge cheesey grin...notice the chocolate all over his face:) The next one with Reese and Abby laying on the ground....well they both wanted to do the game together but couldn't quite decide who would go first! The last pic is of the puppet show....before the cake Anglea (my sister-in-law) and Debbie (Greg's mom) did a little show for all the kids....it was so cute the puppets said all the kids names and talked to them and they were so excited...one of the little girls turned around and said to her mom, "Mommy, that puppet knows my name!" It was so sweet...I think they had alot of fun!
Last night we went to Fall Fest at a church near by...the kids as you can see went as a chicken and a frog...I tried to talk Abby in the being a cowgirl and not a chicken again like last year but she only wanted to wear her cowboy hat with her chicken costume! anyways the kids had fun..Greg's parents came into town yesturday for the kids birthday party this weekend and so they got to go get candy with us! The church had moon bounces and lots of cars with candy in the trunks! We also got to see fireworks at the end of the night. Reese and Abby had tons of candy and were on sugars highs for the rest of the evening...In the picture of Reese and MawMaw looking in the bag of candy he is so amazed people just filled his bag with candy...it was funny to see what the kids picked out too....they kept picking out all the "non-chocolate" things...I was shocked! Who would pick that candy when there are snickers and Reese's peanut butter cups in there?
We had a little family party tonight for Reese because if you don't already know, it is his Birthday today! Anyway we are having a party for Abby and Reese in a week or so when all the grandparents get in town but we wanted to do something today too....so we had a little shindig on our own! We ordered pizza (Reese's favorite) and had cupcakes and opened a few gifts! I think after the whole day he figured out something is going on here...I am getting gifts too...wow this is cool! I just loved seeing him open the gifts. He got play dough from Abby and trains from us...he was soooo excited he carried the trains all night. After the party we headed to the mall and let the kids play at the indoor park area they ran around like crazy and before we knew it it was almost 10:00...wow we were partying so hard we lost track of time:) Well I hope you enjoyed my little blog tribute to our precious Reese...I can't imagine our family without him he's the best!
I wanted to make today special for Reese so I asked him what he wanted to do for his birthday....and with his limited vocabulary:) he told me play dough, painting, choo-choo and Daddy lunch....so that's what we did! First we got the paints out and him and Abby had alot of fun...I now remember though why we only paint every once in a while...Reese gets paint everywhere:) After that we got out the play dough and all he wanted to do was make balls and then cut them up in tiny pieces...so I guess that was fun for him! Then we headed to the "big toy store" as the kids call it and played with the Thomas the Train table. We then met Daddy for lunch at Chick-Fila which the kids really love! So all and all I think he really had a fun birthday... and Abby asked tonight when her "favorite things" birthday is?...I loved that...I really love birthdays and want to make it a special and all about celebrating them so I hope he felt as treasured as he really is!
Today is Reese's 2nd Birthday! This morning we had cupcakes for breakfast! I wanted to start a tradition with the kids and this is one of the ones I wanted to do and they seemed pretty excited about it! Here you can see that he is really loving every bite!
Today was costume Day at our Mainly Music class and the kids dressed up as a chicken and a frog....they are so cute aren't they? Abby was constantly talking about how she had a big belly in her costume and Reese well it took alot to get him to take it off when the party was over!
Abby tonight was teaching Reese the ropes of being computer savy! He was all cuddled up and very interested in all the her wisdom...it's kinda weird how good she is at moving that mouse around and she doesn't even get to play all that often so she must soak up all she can when she is allowed huh? All I know is she is about as good as I am with all this computer stuff...tonight she told me her email address...what's up with that? I think I didn't even know my phone number at her age:)
So Reese is smarter than we gave him credit for! Greg and I were talking in the other room and Reese comes running in and basically tells on himself by opening his mouth and this is what we saw... but way worse!....We told him to take us to where he had taken all those M&M's and he ran into the kitchen and showed us the empty bag of M&M's on the floor.....the whole (big) bag gone...he probably ate about 40 some M&M's in about 2 minutes! WOW that's impressive! Maybe one day we will enter him in a contest and get some money out of it to pay us back for all the food he eats:) Just Kidding!
Tonight our family and Greg's brother's family had an October Party...what is an October Party you might be wondering?...well Greg's parents used to do this with Greg and Doug when they were growing up so they send a box with everything we needed to do it with our families....it's kinda like Double Dare the old TV show on Nickelodeon. We first made homemade pizzas and the kids got to build their own then we did 4 different games or challenges. The kids and us parents had alot of fun....I think we should have a party like this every month...it was great! I will post a new entry for every game I hope you enjoy...we sure did! Thanks Maw Maw and Poppa!
The first challenge was digging a teddy graham out of some pudding with your mouth and not using your hands....the kids did so good they all got the teddy graham...then Reese took a few more dives into the pudding just for fun! They were so messy and they loved every minute of it!
The next challenge we put a marshmallow on a string then dipped it in the pudding and they took turns trying to get the marshmallow in the other persons mouth....the kids did great and they loved getting pudding on each other....I loved to listen to them laugh they had so much fun...I really wasn't sure they would be able to do it but they did and I can't wait to do this with them again! (a great family night activity for sure!!)
The last thing we did was have each of the kids feed each other pudding but they had to cover their eyes and try to get it into the other persons mouth...this one was pretty messy...they loved to miss and get it all over themselves! Reese though really was just interested in getting as much of the yummy pudding in his mouth...as you can see he was chasing that spoon!
We went to go eat at Red Hot and Blue tonight. It's a Bar-b-que restaurant- Memphis style....which is not like Kansas City Bar-b-que....nothing comes close to being as good as KC Masterpeice...oh how I miss that! Anyways we had alot of fun and Reese was really excited about the pitchers they brought our drinks in...he was going to town on Greg's DP.... we also got a free banana pudding....and we loved that....everyone loves free stuff!
Today at Mainly Music they passed out bowls for the kids to use as instruments and such....well they love it when they do this because it means they get to beat on it as loud as they want and no one tells them to stop! Here you can see Abby was more interested in wearing it as a hat....she also told me today she wants to be a cowgirl for Halloween.. we'll see if she changes her mind before then though because after nap today she already wanted to be a dinosaur!
Reese came into the room tonight with a backpack on and said he wanted to go to school....he looked so cute I wish we could get a better picture but the second Greg got the camera he went running! Abby loves to play school and practice her letters and numbers and Reese is now her student...he is really pretty good at playing with her and letting her tell him what to do....but sometimes they both want to be teacher and that's when the fun begins:)
Abby helped me clean the bathroom today and she did a great job. She loves to mop the floor and I thought it was so cute how hard she was working....she said she was sweating after we got done...I guess she would with all the hard labor I subject her too!
