Baby shower and outdoor water play

We have wonderful neighbors to the east of us.  Just to clarify, to the west of us is a street, so it's not like we have horrible neighbors on one side and great neighbors on the other, but our east neighbors really are great.  Jo Ann and Jesus are the original owners of their home and have lived there for close to 20 years.  They have come to all three birthday parties that we have had for the kids since we moved here.  I think that's awesome.

 

Jesus and Jo Ann's son, Cory, and his girlfriend, Safria, are having a baby at the end of March.  Jo Ann hosted a baby shower for them on Sunday.  I was invited and even though I didn't know a single other person there, I was happy to go.

 

Jo Ann is the one with her arms up in the air.

There were lots of tasty treats.  I ate none of them but brought an entire buffet home for my family.

 

That's Cory in the blue shirt and Safria with the big baby belly.

 

Since I brought a whole bunch of treats home with me, Spencer and Elliott got cupcakes after dinner on Sunday.

 

Elliott declared, "cake goon".  Translation, "cake good".

 Spencer had his last running club practice on Monday.  After we picked him up we came home and painted outside.  This is Elliott's first water color.

It was warm enough to turn on the sprinklers.  This worries me.  If we're playing outside in the water in February, what will we be doing in July?  I can probably predict this: living in the frozen section at Costco.  We'll just set up a little tent for the month.

 

Elliott had a wee bit of paint on his face.

I got these chocolate whale pops at the shower.  The kids got them after dinner on Monday.   

 

Now we just have about 8 blue jello cups, 3 cookies and a bag of candy left.  That shower just keeps on giving and giving and giving.

 

Update: Due to extreme spam commenting, as of 5/27 I have closed comments on this post. Sorry. Blame the spammers.

Transportation Day the 5th

We went to Transportation Day on Saturday.  It was the 5th time for Michael and Spencer, the 4th time for me and the 2nd time for Elliott (Elliott and I both missed it in 2012 because we were on lockdown). We'll get to all of those 947 pictures in a minute. 

 

First, I have a mini review of the second part of last week.

 

On Wednesday I fully intended to take Elliott to morning story time at the library.  In reality we stayed at home and didn't even get out of our pajamas until it was time to pick Spencer up from running club (3:50 pm!). 

 

We burned some time taking selfies. 

On Thursday we ended up at the mall after I got home from work.  I can't remember why we went in the first place but we ended up eating dinner there. 

 

On Friday Elliott was discovered with his big ol' diaper butt about 6 feet up in the air.

OK.  Transportation Day!

 

You can go HERE to read the 2013 post.  There are links within links within links that will get you to 2012, 2011 and 2010 too.

 

The whole thing started at 9:00 am with the landing of the helicopter.  9:00 am used to be an impossible feat for this family.  Spencer being in school all year has changed that and we were ready and waiting at 8:55.

Police motorcycle

 

I'm pretty sure I have 5 years of these pictures.  I should do a sweet comparison collage.

Camper

 

There was room for about 6 people to sleep in there. I'm tempted to rent one and take it to the beach.  That's as close to camping I will ever get.

 

Mobile Gym

Back of the UPS truck.  This was the first thing that intrigued Elliott enough to get out of the stroller.

 

Front of the UPS truck

 

Smart car

 

Inside the city bus

 

Inside the YMCA bus

 

Harley Davidson

 

Cherry Picker

 

Elliott was disinterested until he found the big bucket of candy.

 

Sea doo

 

Chick-fil-A cow

 

Is a cow a kind of transportation?

Big construction machinery- I don't actually know exactly what it was.  Michael says it's an excavator.

Helicopter

 

We were disappointed that they weren't letting kids sit inside of it this year.  We got over our disappointment in about 7 seconds.

 

More contruction machinery

 

Petting zoo

 

Certainly not transportation, but they were still fun to look at.

This is a rundown of all the animals I seriously considered stealing.

 

This bunny. 

 

I mean, come on, how could I not tuck that thing under my arm and run?

This pig.

 

Ginger would LOVE us if we brought her home a pig sister.

This chicken. 

 

She had fluffy feathers around her feet that looked like fancy shoes.  I appreciated her sense of style.

And this chicken had an awesome hat made of feathers.  I want both of them to live in my backyard.

And finally, this goose was wearing the most fantastic dress I have ever seen.  Her goose dress is even more beautiful than the goose dress that Bjork wore.

On the school bus.  This is the first year that Spencer didn't care about the school bus.  It's hard to get excited about something that you ride every week.

 

Garbage truck

 

 

The airplanes

 

Speed boat

 

Cherry picker up high 

 

I should win an award for this picture. 

 

The hot air balloon was new this year.  We've never seen one there before. 

 

Elliott was not a fan of how loud the fire was. 

 

All terrain vehicle 

 

And one more look at the hot air balloon as we left. 

Then it was on to Paul's house where we left Spencer for his very first sleepover with a friend. 

The rest of our Saturday was peaceful and very, very quiet.  I have forgotten how easy it is to have 1 kid.  Michael and I even took a nap with Elliott.  It was heavenly.