Friday funny - Listen to Your Kids

This week when I was dropping G off to his class at school he kept messing with my skirt saying "mommy, mommy" as I was talking to another mom from his class (his BFF Lucy's mom) . I thought he was just trying to get me to pick him up as he does most mornings (stalling) and kept saying "one second please", "G, please don't interrupt", "G, please put my skirt down" and brushing his hands away to prevent him from showing my trade secrets to his entire class. Well next thing I know he has wiped his nose on my skirt!!! And when I asked "G, why did you do that?" His response was "well mom, I asked you for a tissue!" So, who taught who a lesson that morning!?!

Kindergarten Preview

This morning G couldn't decide between his Car and his Caterpillar to take to Show and Share (letter C) so I let him take both in his backpack.  When he put it on I almost cried thinking of the day I'll have to ship him off to Kindergarten.  He just looks so GROWN UP!!

 

Kids Together Walk for Inclusiveness

We're very lucky to have a wonderful park just around the corner from our house. Inside the park is the Kids Together Playground that is accessible for children with physical disabilities. Saturday was their fundraising walk along the Hinshaw Greenway that connects Marla Dorrel Park to MacDonald Woods Park and the Comptons came to join us.  It was a gorgeous day and we had a great time.  Maybe one of these days I'll remember to bring a real camera and not just my phone.

Poor Porter, stuck in the wagon with all the gear!

Wedding Shower Craftiness

Many of you know I love a diaper cake and have made one for most of the baby showers I've been too in the last 10 years. Well, since THAT type of shower will never happen for my friends Charles and Christine (100% by choice) I knew I had to make this Towel Cake for them when I saw it on one of my blogs (I can't find the original post or I'd totally give credit, but I did follow this tutorial).  Their wedding has a nautical theme so I used their colors and copied the knot that was on their lovely wedding invitations. I think it came out pretty cute!

The REAL Amazing SpiderGman!

G is all about some Spiderman lately.  He got a lot of neat gifts for his birthday, but I do believe his favorite was a Spiderman glove the makes spider web shooting sounds.  He mimics this often, with or without the glove, but it took us a while to figure out that's what he was doing. The last time we were at the lake Grammie asked where he learned his new "karate" moves.  Jimbo and I just shrugged and said "must have been from school". But then when he combined his "karate" moves with "I'm Spiderman!" we obviously figured it out. Fast forward to Saturday when we discovered that our friend Gina has a new hobby!  She says she got tired of paying to get Ella's face painted at every even tthey went to, so she bought a kit and taught herself.  She did every kid at Peter's birthday party with a different design! (except for Porter because I couldn't deal with the idea of the mess he'd make) AMAZING!  Thanks Gina!

Happy Birthday Michelle!

We celebrated our good friend Michelle's birthday tonight at Kanki.  Graham and Kennedy had a blast!

One for fun!

Downtown Raleigh

VROOM!

If Jimbo has his way this is a preview of things to come.  However, given recent trips to the ER I can't say that i'm in agreement.  They are pretty darn cute on them though!

Leaving...on a jet plane!

 We headed up to North Dakota for Grammie Jean's funeral.  Not the reason we wanted to visit the Dakotas again, but a very nice trip despite the circumstances.  It was G and PJ's first trip on an airplane and they were troopers.  It was stressful, but given the circumstances they did really really well.  G even got to meet the Captain on our flight from Cleveland to Raleigh.  He was so excited!  We had a very nice visit with the cousins as well as GG and Papa.  More on that later.

If only he had been this still the whole time!

Ditto!

G wanted to ride on the cart so bad he went up to the driver and asked him
all by himself to take us.

Pirate Pool Party!

I can't think of a much better way to celebrate a late summer birthday than being IN the water.  This year we were able to take advantage of our wonderful neighborhood pool and hosted a pirate themed pool party for big G.  Here are some of the highlights.

Pirate buddies!

The details:

Shark Bait!

I tried to keep it easy and healthy!

Cupcake ships...that melted shortly after arriving!

Treasure ready to be plundered.

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Arrrgh! G be 3 today matey!

It's hard to believe that G is already 3.  This year's theme is PIRATES.  His party isn't until Sunday but here's a quick look at he best pirate scowl (at Target because of course I'm not ready for the party yet and had to pick up a couple of last things).  Happy Birthday Buddy!

Thanks to Team Guenther for sponsoring G's birthday celebration (aka Anna's 6th birthday party) at Jump Zone .  Until the very end he thought it was HIS party.   Luckily no presents were opened on premises or there might have been a brawl.

G and Anna were only 1hr and 5 minutes (and 3 years)

away from sharing the same birthday!

(G wouldn't sit still long enough for him NOT to be a blur.)

The master of the fake smile!

Custom pirate shirt.  I do love my Silhoutte!

Happy Birthday Uncle Vann!

We're so lucky to have so much family close by, but there is one man that trumps all others in the eyes of the boys. UNCLE VANN.  Both boys get excited beyond belief when he shows up.  Vann's birthday is July 22 and G's is 7/27 so this year we celebrated together.  G got a few more presents than Vann, but he didn't pout....too much!

G made the front page of the paper!

In the Anderson family the 4th of July is a MAJOR holiday!  I recently asked Grammie if she had to choose between celebrating Mother's Day and 4th of July, which would she choose and without hesitation she responded with Independence Day.  This year was the 28th annual floating of the Lake Gaston Boat Parade, led by none other than Grammie and PopPop.  In the picture below you can see Big G peaking out the back of the boat.  When we showed him the picture, he was much completely unimpressed with his own picture but excitedly yelled "look mommy, the candy boat!"  (The boat to the left of ours in the picture threw out bags of candy during the parade.)  I'm so proud of my little guy for not letting his fame get to his head.

You can read the rest of the story here.

Lake Gaston 4th of July 2012

Well someone responsible had to drive the boat!

Graham hard at work

and he found what we were looking for!

Special thanks to AJA for posting these pics.  We, of course, forgot our camera!