Pictures from our day

Here are just some fun pictures from our ordinary Saturday, starting with buds and Kasey...

And then some funny ones from our dinner this evening...

Our birthday gift to Christopher was a new big boy bike. Here he is trying it out! He still has to get the hang of peddling but we made it down the sidewalk at least...

Little Bunny Foo Foo

Today was Christopher's last day of the summer session of Kindermusik. As you can see, the kids made bunny ears and sang songs about creatures that you find wandering in the grass. As usual, we will miss Kindermusik and can't wait for it to start up again in September!

And CJ made a statement today that, as a Space Camp alumna, warmed my heart: "Mommy, I will be an astronaut when I grow up and I will fly to the moon and I will be a pilot of the rocket and I will use the astronaut potty." I couldn't be prouder...

The Old Ballgame

Here is Christopher's rendition of "Take Me Out to the Ballgame:"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UxRv6MKn8ns

Party time!

On Saturday morning, Christopher was excited to go to his friend Emily's birthday party. The two kiddos are only a week apart in age. Emily's party was at a great place called Franklin Park in Prairie Village and it was one we had not been to before. There is a little man-made stream system there that the kids can play in (as seen in the picture above) and mucho sand, which of course made our boy very happy! Another bonus of this park was that it was mostly in the shade, which we appreciated as we are entering our third week of triple digit heat. All the kids were having a great time and it got even better when the cupcakes and cake arrived!

Notice that Chris is just working his way up to the front to get a closer look!

Today we went to the brand new outdoor pool at our gym. It is fabulous! Zero entry, lots of shallow water, waterfalls, fountains, and a splash park. But the highlight of the pool was watching Christopher jump off the side, into the water. The boy has no fear! And his jumps got bigger and bigger. He had his arm swimmies on and I was catching him so he was pretty confident. A couple times, I let him dunk his head a little when he jumped because he really wants to go under. And then, there was a point when he said, "Okay Mommy. You back up a little so I can do a really big jump, alright?" I stood about four feet out and he jumped about three of those feet. It's fun to seem him get better and better at this! Obviously I have no pictures of this, as my hands were occupied with keeping Chris afloat. We were at the pool for two hours and if it wasn't for lunch time, we would have stayed longer. The boy is a fish!

I love my plane!!!

Thank you Grandma Jan and Grandpa Eric!

Birthday Celebration #3

Yikes! I was on such a roll updating the blog and now it's been 4 whole days! Anyway, on Christopher's actual birthday we went to Spin Pizza for dinner. This was CJ's choice and his parents were very happy about it, as we are totally down for Spin anytime. We brought Grammy along with us to celebrate and Chris chowed down on the yummy kids cheese pizza and complementary gelato...

And then Christopher found out that there was no cake. How did he react?

Just kidding! We brought a leftover piece of his birthday cake to the restaurant with us. Even though he was totally caked up the whole weekend, we figured a boy has to have cake on his actual big day. By the way, that is Christopher's "serious" face. After he makes it, of course, he completely cracks up, as do we all!

Birthday Boy

Christopher spent the first part of his 3rd birthday hanging out with his buddy, Luca! The boys were busy for a while in the backyard making more sand pies until it got too hot to be out anymore. These two are becoming the best of buds! Later we are off to Spin Pizza, Christopher's choice for his birthday dinner...