Party, Party!

Sebastien's party was centered around trains, big surprise right? :) We found some party supplies for a really good price and had little things for the kids to do outside. We woke up that morning to cloudy, windy, COLD weather. I was NOT happy. I kept hoping all morning that the sky would clear up so we could have a fun party, luckily it did. I was beginning to panic at the thought of 9 boys, 1 girl and 3 babies playing in our tiny house. Here are pictures of the days activities:

Troy is getting the pinata ready. This was a "pull string" pinata, NO HITTING involved. I will admit, it took a lot of the fun out of having a pinata but with so many kids running around it worked out great! We had all the boys stand around the pinata and they each had two or three strings to pull on. The magic string opened the pinata and a little bit of candy fell out. Troy ended up walking in a circle shaking the rest out. It was fun watching the kids get so excited and putting the candy in their bags.

Sebastien doesn't understand that you want to FILL your bag with candy. He found a sucker, opened it up and started eating it. He slowly walked around picking up a few pieces here and there but was more concerned with what all the other boys were getting.

Don't get in the way of 9 boys and 1 girl collecting candy!
Look at all the candy on the ground. It was gone in seconds.

The kids also had bubbles and sidewalk chalk to play with. I don't know how Sebastien managed to get the chalk on the tip of his nose but we all thought it was so cute. I think it was on his face until he had a bath after the party.

Some of the boys running around, throw and kicking balls. I love little boys, they are so easy to entertain!

The birthday cake! It was a big hit with all the kids...and parents too. :)

The birthday boy with his slice of cake.

I think he liked it! (notice the chalk still on his nose??)


I made these "train" cookies for a snack during the party. I had a lot of fun doing it and tried my best to make it look like Thomas the Train, with a number 2 (rather then 1) for how old Sebastien was turning. They were very yummy!

We just want to say "thank you" to all of Sebastien's friends for making his special day such a success! We didn't have any major problems with all the kids, the weather was perfect and fun was had by all. (I think!)

Happy Birthday Sebastien!

(Just a WARNING....this post is a little lengthy)

We just celebrated Sebastien's 2nd birthday on May 14th and had so much fun. We decided to start a new family tradition this year and that is decorating the house the night before a birthday. We put the boys to bed and then hung streamers in the family room and dining room above the kitchen table. Right now Sebastien is very interested in trains. We found a really cool train track at Once Upon A Child, not really knowing what it did we bought it anyway. As we were decorating the house we decided to put the train stuff together and have it on the kitchen table for Sebastien's big surprise. It came with a little microphone and you to tell the train to "go" or "stop". It also has four different buttons you can push to give the train a destination to go to. We put a present at each stop and thought it would be fun to have Sebastien open them when the train stopped. I think Troy and I played with it for about 15 minutes that night, we knew we wouldn't have a chance to once Sebastien saw it.

When Sebastien woke up the morning of his birthday we took him downstairs to see his surprise. I wanted to record him but I couldn't figure out how to take a video, Troy came to the rescue and I sat with Sebastien on the stairs. The closer he got to the bottom of the stairs he could see the streamers in the kitchen and said "oh, look mom". That got him SO excited he could hardly stand it. He went down one more step and then it happened....he saw the TRAIN TRACK! He sprinted into the kitchen and yelled "TRAIN" as loud as he possibly could. It was so cute! He ended up playing with the train for about 20 minutes, then we took him into the other room to open his presents. He had so much fun opening his new train movies, sandals, a cool bubble machine/bubbles and a puzzle.



We also decided another birthday tradition would be to go get a donut for breakfast, and that we did. Troy took Sebastien in to pick out his very own birthday donut and then we went to the train depot to watch all the trains come in.



This was Sebastien's lucky day. He not only got to see trains, but a fire truck and airplanes too...the Air Force C130's to be exact!






Manti broke out in a nasty rash that day and we ended up in urgent care (the base clinic was closed). After an hour of waiting, 15 minutes of Manti screaming because the doctor weighed him and then looked at him, we found out he had a virus. With all the symptoms he had that week, I knew that!! Another wonderful visit to the Dr's office, wasting time!



Anyway, after the visit to the doc, it was time for lunch. We don't usually go to the play area at McDonald's but since it was Sebastien's special day we decided that would be another fun thing for him. Is this boy spoiled or what?? The rest of the day was spent at home, playing outside and having fun.
There was so much excitement that day, Sebastien pooped out at 7:30!

We left his birthday decorations up for a couple of days for a little birthday bash with his friends(I didn't want to decorate twice). Anytime he woke up he would come downstairs, look at the streamers and get so excited. It was so fun to see the excitement on his little face. He is such a wonderful boy, we truly are blessed to have him in our lives. We love you Sebastien!!

(birthday party post to come soon)

Bubbles

Sebastien loves to play with bubbles. This was the first time he had done it by himself. He loved spinning in circles and seeing the bubbles fly away.

I love the smile on his face. He was so proud of himself for doing it without our help.


The bubbles fly away really fast. You can't see any in this picture because the wonderful Cheyenne winds blew them away before I could take the picture. Sebastien watched the bubbles fly away until they popped. It was so cute.

Eating Dirt

We are FINALLY getting some nice weather here in Cheyenne which means A LOT of playing outside. We don't have any wonderful toys to play with outside but lucky for us Sebastien is content with bubbles, baseball and volleyball. While I play ball with Sebastien, Manti crawls around taste testing the grass and dirt. A little dirt never hurt, right?



Manti is showing me the yummy grass he is about to eat.

I would tell him that is "yucky" and he thought it was so funny. I had to snap this picture with the grass hanging out of his mouth with his big smile.


Check out the look on his face! Love it! He had gotten a little mud mixed in with the grass and wasn't too sure he liked it. After choking on a mud ball and me digging it out of his mouth I got this...
He is so darn cute, even with mud all over his face and between his teeth!