Alexander is 6

Alexander's birthday party was a pirate party and he had a lot of fun! I didn't take many pictures, not even at the beginning. Sad. Oh well. I think the kids had fun and Alexander LOVED it. A really funny thing was that Alexander had no idea that people were going to bring him gifts. This was his first school friends party so maybe he didn't know what to expect. Anyway here are some photos
His birthday banner! This was my favorite thing because I put his photo on it and its cute. I ordered it from shindigz.com


These are some fuzzy pictures sorry I was trying to hurry because kids were arriving. This was the bandana and flag decorating set up. We had some pirate skulls with eye patches. The containers were full of pirate foam stickers to make it less messy
Then I made them earn their pirate hats by throwing little "cannon balls" at the enemy ship.


Daniel drew a ship onto the poster board. I did this game because Alexander really wanted water balloons and well this was the best option so that we didn't all get wet.

Then we had a wall of cannon balls and they were supposed to explode them with T pins. It was pretty loud they had confetti or prizes in them so it was exciting. I got this idea from pinterest where they had a giant pumpkin shape on the wall and just changed it to cannon balls.



Then we did pin the eye patch on the pirate. Daniel drew the pirate.
They did pretty well :


Then we did another activity, then it was time for cake. Cupcakes to be exact. Here is a shot of the singing:
All the shots I took of this show Alexander has a really great time. He absolutely loved his party. Here is a close up of the cupcakes:



It was so much fun. Yay our first friends party a success. His birthday isn't until the 12th (tomorrow) we will be doing candles and icecream. That is what he wanted and gifts again of course. Then on Monday its 24 cupcakes for his class! The great news is that I ran around trying to find the right toppers and then no one had what Alexander wanted so tonight I sent Daniel to walmart for some cooking oil and look what he brought home:
They had them!!! They didn't have them yesterday but today was magical. YAY Wohoo! I remember not finding them last year and this year we have success.

He is 6 now. Its so strange but he is. He keeps telling me he is going to 1st grade now :)

Happy Birthday Alexander!!

Alexander's Birthday The Final Chapter

Alexander had been changing his mind about his birthday for a few months. First it was How to Train your Dragon then it was Spiderman with touches of Transformers and other super hero things. So finally he decided he wanted a birthday party at school with cupcakes spiderman rings and party hats (transformers) I figured it was a small thing to ask so I set about getting it done. He was sooo excited to have cupcakes at school for his birthday. He even said one sentence to his teacher (he doesn't speak to his teacher at ALL but that is for another blog post some other day) telling her we were bringing cupcakes to school. So we brought the cupcakes and they were doing show and tell and his teacher said "Ok class Alexanders parents brought cupcakes to celebrate his birthday." Here he is peeking out from show and tell looking at us with his shy smile type face:and he yelled "and my sister" I was surprised to hear him talk because he doesn't in public settings. Anyway they sang happy birthday to him and he was just beaming (as you can see in the picture below) his teacher even had him wear in a special birthday hat. They got their spider man cupcakes and their transformer hats and Eva made herself at home at the head of the big table. A side story: we always talk about how loud Eva is. She can out speak anyone and she can do it at any volume. Well she was chattering along with whoever would listen and the boy next to her said "Wow did you know you are very loud" I was laughing after that because if a 5 year old hopped up on sugar tells you that you are loud then you ARE LOUD. Anyway he said bye to his friends and not his teacher and came home with us.

We were lucky his birthday landed on a Saturday because we could all be there all day. So we went to the zoo and had fun. Then we went home and tried to get his little party (with just us) ready. I was going to decorate and blow up balloons but he wanted to come help with the balloons so we all decorated together. We got pizza (his request) then we had cake (which I made, nothing special but a great prop in the middle)
Eva kept asking many questions about her own birthday and if she would get a class party at Alexanders school so I got her two gifts just little party favors to lighten the load.
Here he is blowing out the candles.
Here is the coolest part about the cake. I made it blue and read marble its was just cool to me because well I usually buy the cakes.
Anyway he had a great birthday and didn't want to go to sleep because he knew it wasn't his birthday the next day. He is now 5 years old! He starts school next year and he is progressing so well (at least from what we have seen). He even shared his gifts with Eva. He had a pile of them and kept giving her gifts and saying they were hers. We are grateful to have such a sweet little boy oh and sweeten it all tonight after we said prayers and I was getting ready to shut the door he said "Mamma" and i said "yes" and he said "I Love you" He doesn't say it a lot and it just made me so happy! So happy I am not affected by the other day anymore :)

Alexander's Birthday part 1

We went to the zoo for Alexander's Birthday. We were going to go to the circus but we figured the zoo was a better option for 2 adults and 3 children (less stressful with wrangling children) Alexander was very excited to go. We woke up Saturday morning packed a lunch and left for the zoo. I gave Alexander a birthday boy badge that had blinking lights on it and he LOVED it and wore it all day, even with his pjs later in the evening. When we got there he really wanted to see the giraffes. He just kept asking where they were and wanted to move along until we got there.

Here he is finally seeing the giraffes (look closely and you can see a giraffe in the picture)
We saw all the animals and there were people at many of the animal places who were informers about the animals (this wasn't the case last time we came). The animals were a lot more lively than I have ever seen them. The gorillas were even throwing poop at us! The Seals were barking and swimming like crazy. It was pretty great. A zoo lady told me it was because it was so early in the morning. When we got to the Polar Bear exhibit they were very active too. They kept diving in the water and we happened to be underneath so see it and we caught some photos:

Here it is freshly diving in.

You can even see him breathing out the air in the water in this one. I liked watching the polar bears because of all the swimming but I usually don't like the Polar bears because everytime we have gone they pace back and forth and I feel like they are antsy and are just waiting for someone to fall down the creavice so they can eat them! I guess its built into my blood to fear the Polar bear (being Icelandic and all). Anyway they make me nervous. Here is Alexander while we were looking at the Polar Bears from the top:

Here is a cougar look at me, the other one was eating some giant bone with meat on it I didn't want to show that photo though.
Here are the kids on a giant brass hyena (or not I can't remember what it is)

here they are on the giant chair thing.
Eva was all over the place but having a blast. She did this pose all on her own so I took a picture. Yeah those are band-aids on her face.
Here was the main event! There is this huge play ground there and the kids love it. I mean kids from all around know this is at the zoo and want to play there.
Alexander was so happy. He had a great birthday and I will do another post about it. He also brought his camera to the zoo looking for Animals to capture on film (or memory card)

Bubbas B-Day

We are posting some pictures we took of Bubbas Birthday. We got him a scooter with a helmet.
He turned 4 today and the smallest size helmet he fit was 8+, now he wears it alot.
First we went to Chuck-E-Cheeses. Anyone planning on taking their kids to chuck-e-cheeses do not do it on a Friday night.
Then we went home and had birthday cake. This was the only one that wasn't to valentines day overwhelming


Here is a picture of Alexander in his helmet that fits an 8 year old. When we came home from Chuck-E-Cheeses he was screaming about his hat. We finally figured out that he wanted birthday hats. So we got him the ones that are on Daniel's head and everyone had to wear them.


Here is an action shot on the scooter. He is falling on purpose. Apparently if you are wearing your helmet then you are obligated to fall.
HAPPY VALENTINES DAY!

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Alexander is 4 today. He is celebrating by eating candy for breakfast. We are going to take him to chuck e cheese the classic childrens fun land tonight. He is very excited it is his birthday. I wish The Last Airbender was out already because he wants to see it! He loves avatar and when we were watching previews for it he got super excited and made us replay it over and over.

Happy Birthday Alexander