Party Time (part 2)!

And now it is off to party number 2, Emily and Connor LaBarge's bash!!!

Party time! Excellent!

Today we had Christopher's birthday party at Leaping Lizards! As we drove home from the party, Chris declared, "I liked my birthday party!" I guess that pretty much summarizes the morning. The theme was, of course, dogs and so we had doggie cake, doggie decorations, doggie balloons, even doggie cookies. Here was Christopher's cake...

As you can see, the cake was surrounded by cupcakes and those little white things on the cupcakes are doggie bones. Thank you Hen House!!! Chris had a lot of fun playing on the bouncy houses at Leaping Lizards, as did all of his friends. Here are some pictures from our morning...

And of course we have met our photo capacity for this post. Check the next post for pics of Chris enjoying his day with all his friends!!!

The Scooter!

Here is Chris figuring out his new scooter!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QY66nvPU6aQ

Birthday week

This has been a very fun week for Christopher, what with his 4th birthday and super fun camp. Here are some leftover pictures from our birthday dinner on Wednesday. First, Grammy came over to watch "Happy Feet 2" with the birthday boy. Kasey was also very happy!

After dinner, we had cupcakes! Chris helped me pick out these cute cakes from the store and we celebrated in style with a candle and everything!

Chris had his last day of camp today. I seriously have never heard him talk about something so much as he talked about this camp experience! I told his teacher that he really enjoyed himself this week and if the rest of our summer wasn't so busy, I would send him to another week. Anyway, here is a picture of one of his projects. They traced their bodies and chose what kind of Olympic athlete they wanted to be. Chris chose a soccer player. It was so funny too because when I saw this I said, "Oh you drew your body!" To which Christopher replied, "No Mommy it's not a body, it's an athlete." I stand corrected. 

Christopher has also been perfecting his Hamptons look for our upcoming trip to Shelter Island. What do you think?

Finally, we received our deck furniture today!!! Too bad it's a bagillion degrees outside. I'm just going to admire it through the sliding doors here in the A/C. It looks nice though!

Tomorrow is a highly exciting day, with hockey, Christopher's birthday party, Emily and Connor's birthday party, and date weekend with Grammy while Mommy and Daddy celebrate their 7th anniversary with a stay cation on the Plaza, a full 4 miles from our house! When I explained to Chris that Grammy would be staying with him and Kasey, he said, "Oh yeah because you and Daddy are going to get married!" Close enough!

More birthday fun

We have been opening birthday presents in spurts today. After we got back from lunch, we opened the "Shelter Island Ferry" from Grandma Jan and Grandpa Eric and Chris has been having fun with it ever since! As you can see, Erik the penguin has been going for a ride on the ferry along with many other toys of Christopher's!

Happy 4th Birthday!!!

Four years ago today, the happiest little boy on the block was born! Oh and Brian's feet were really hurting from all the standing he had to do at the hospital. (This is a running joke between us because Brian wore his docksiders hour after hour while Chris took his sweet time coming into the world. I, on the other hand...). We have been celebrating Christopher's 4th birthday today in style. It started out with an early gift opening session before breakfast. Over the weekend, we watched "Happy Feet 2" and Chris absolutely loved it. In fact, we'll be watching it again this afternoon with Grammy! Part of our gift to buds was the little penguin from the movie, who happens to be named "Erik" (spelled incorrectly of course, right Grandpa?). Chris has been impersonating Erik all week and today he got to take his new little friend all over with him! Here was part of the gift opening...

He also received a few other penguin figures from the movie and our big gift to him will be a night at Great Wolf Lodge, which we will be doing in a couple weeks. Chris had camp at Pembroke today and I was actually glad because normally, he won't be in school on his birthday. They sang to him (twice!) and his teacher helped him make the crown you see in the first picture. (I can't tell you enough how awesome this week of camp has been for Chris! I am really impressed, in particular with his teacher.). At the end of the morning, Daddy came with me to pick up Chris and see his classroom. Then we headed to SPIN Pizza, Christopher's restaurant of choice! Here are my boys before their meal...

Whenever we celebrate Christopher's birthday, I like to go back through our old pictures and remember what he looked like as a little baby. Here are a few of my favorites from the early days...

There are thousands to choose from but these just remind me of how little he was. Well, I guess he was never really "little" but relative to now he sure was! Happy birthday to our sweet boy! Look out boy, you just crossed the line into Mommy's area of expertise--age 4!!!

Airport

Chris was inspired by his camp today to make a runway in his playroom. Here is a video of one of his flights taking off!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G3I567F7hsc