Monday, November 15, 2010
Modeling his Birthday Sweater!
This is the sweater I made Sammy for his birthday. He asked to wear it to school today. He is so utterly sweet and adorable!
Sammy's Sixth Birthday!
For Sammy's birthday party we invited eight of his friends over to celebrate with us (yes, we had 10 boys in total at our house all afternoon. Many many thanks to Mo and her daughters for caring for baby Jack during the party. It was much more fun - and possible to handle 10 energetic boys! - without a baby around).
Despite the heavy first snow fall of the season we had a very bright colorful party!
Sammy wore a clown tie and nose, and is showing off the Spongebob wristband covered lollipop from the favor bag. He and Freddie also wore matching "party shirts" as they call them.
As the kids arrived Jacob led them in a Rock Band contest to the Beatles' Birthday, then once everyone was here Oscar the Clown arrived.
(Please excuse the support pole in the way. And the blurry pictures. It's hard to take good pictures of active children in a basement!)
Everyone was falling over with laughter. Really.
Sammy got to be the helper. He also chose a few of his friends to help out, too.
Oscar had the kids cracking up.
It was almost as fun to watch the kids watching Oscar. Sammy's friend, Drew, in particular was adorable. He could barely sit up right. And Calvin kept falling off the back of the couch (I think on purpose, though!). That's Drew in the bottom right of the photo. And I think Cal was actually behind the couch in this picture!
Sammy and the hilarious Oscar at cake time.
The cake!
The cookies!
Quiet kiddos eating cake and donuts and cookies! (yep, that's right. Jacob even gave some of the kids seconds of cake.)
Clockwise from top left: Sammy, Brian, Calvin, Zander, Gus, Aleksander
Clockwise from left: Drew, Freddie, Will, Henry
After cake, we went downstairs and Sammy opened presents.
After presents the kids had about 20ish minutes to play. I furiously built a Hot Wheels set with a rotation of five or so boys breathing down my neck. Surprisingly no pieces were missing and it was put together for them to play with for a little bit, too. Whew!
Happy Birthday, Sammy! We love you so much!
xo, Mom and Dad
Despite the heavy first snow fall of the season we had a very bright colorful party!
Sammy wore a clown tie and nose, and is showing off the Spongebob wristband covered lollipop from the favor bag. He and Freddie also wore matching "party shirts" as they call them.
As the kids arrived Jacob led them in a Rock Band contest to the Beatles' Birthday, then once everyone was here Oscar the Clown arrived.
(Please excuse the support pole in the way. And the blurry pictures. It's hard to take good pictures of active children in a basement!)
Everyone was falling over with laughter. Really.
Sammy got to be the helper. He also chose a few of his friends to help out, too.
Oscar had the kids cracking up.
It was almost as fun to watch the kids watching Oscar. Sammy's friend, Drew, in particular was adorable. He could barely sit up right. And Calvin kept falling off the back of the couch (I think on purpose, though!). That's Drew in the bottom right of the photo. And I think Cal was actually behind the couch in this picture!
Sammy and the hilarious Oscar at cake time.
The cake!
The cookies!
Quiet kiddos eating cake and donuts and cookies! (yep, that's right. Jacob even gave some of the kids seconds of cake.)
Clockwise from top left: Sammy, Brian, Calvin, Zander, Gus, Aleksander
Clockwise from left: Drew, Freddie, Will, Henry
After cake, we went downstairs and Sammy opened presents.
After presents the kids had about 20ish minutes to play. I furiously built a Hot Wheels set with a rotation of five or so boys breathing down my neck. Surprisingly no pieces were missing and it was put together for them to play with for a little bit, too. Whew!
Happy Birthday, Sammy! We love you so much!
xo, Mom and Dad
Sunday, November 14, 2010
Yesterday was a day of much celebration.
More pictures to come!
Click here for a few more pictures of the [edible] sweet stuff. :)Thursday, November 11, 2010
Gold standard of soakers.
Long time no cloth diapering post, huh?
Have I mentioned how much I love Wild Child Woolies soakers? There aren't many things that I've saved and loved over the span of three kids but these are top of the list. They are made out of the softest, thickest (well, the double-layer) and stretchiest interlock wool. They fit for a loooong time and they contort to fit baby's ever-changing shape. They cover even the most generously cut (ie notoriously large and equally wonderful) Motherease One-Size and are uber trim over a snappied prefold.
Now, to convince you with cuteness, here's Jack Jack.
SO soft on the World's Chubbiest Legs.
As you can see it covers the badonkadonk very well.
Convince you?
Splurge on these soakers. You won't be sorry!
Have I mentioned how much I love Wild Child Woolies soakers? There aren't many things that I've saved and loved over the span of three kids but these are top of the list. They are made out of the softest, thickest (well, the double-layer) and stretchiest interlock wool. They fit for a loooong time and they contort to fit baby's ever-changing shape. They cover even the most generously cut (ie notoriously large and equally wonderful) Motherease One-Size and are uber trim over a snappied prefold.
Now, to convince you with cuteness, here's Jack Jack.
SO soft on the World's Chubbiest Legs.
As you can see it covers the badonkadonk very well.
Convince you?
Splurge on these soakers. You won't be sorry!
Monday, November 08, 2010
Thank you, Mother Nature for blowing down my neighbor's fence.
Here is Mr. Glowing Blue Eyes looking Super Cute
In addition to the gaping hole (we'll get to that), did you notice the sockless, coatless - no - hoodieless state of Babycakes? I love seeing his nibbleable (word? should be) toes. It's been a very mild fall here in Minneapolis! (except for that incredibly gusty day that took out the fence)
Now you can turn your attention to the fallen fence behind my lovely child. That's right, I used my children as a cover to photograph my neighbor's destroyed and fallen fence. A fence that didn't have long for this world a good two years ago when he TIED [part of] IT TO HIS FREAKIN' HOUSE to keep it from falling down on my children.
So, I thank you, Mother Nature, for taking down part of that fence and for depositing it in his yard. Downside is that now we have to interact MORE with said neighbor and his FREAKIN' DOG is now depositing our backyard. The other downside is that our mild fall is coming to an abrupt end this weekend and the ground may freeze before a new privacy fence is installed.
Can you believe this?
Neither can we.
In addition to the gaping hole (we'll get to that), did you notice the sockless, coatless - no - hoodieless state of Babycakes? I love seeing his nibbleable (word? should be) toes. It's been a very mild fall here in Minneapolis! (except for that incredibly gusty day that took out the fence)
Now you can turn your attention to the fallen fence behind my lovely child. That's right, I used my children as a cover to photograph my neighbor's destroyed and fallen fence. A fence that didn't have long for this world a good two years ago when he TIED [part of] IT TO HIS FREAKIN' HOUSE to keep it from falling down on my children.
So, I thank you, Mother Nature, for taking down part of that fence and for depositing it in his yard. Downside is that now we have to interact MORE with said neighbor and his FREAKIN' DOG is now depositing our backyard. The other downside is that our mild fall is coming to an abrupt end this weekend and the ground may freeze before a new privacy fence is installed.
Can you believe this?
Neither can we.
"I love him back."
Me to Freddie: "Jack loves you so much." (Me, not said: 'almost as much as a pair of baby nail clippers')
Freddie, very matter-of-factly: "I love him back."
Freddie, very matter-of-factly: "I love him back."
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