When we got back from our trip, it was back to business as usual.
Box sledding.
Box sledding.
Box sledding is much harder to accomplish with Ralph around.
Speaking of Ralph, he's doing good.
He's learning the house rules quickly.
He keeps himself busy exploring new things and creating chaos where ever he goes.
He's a great dog.
There's only one thing I can't stand.
He gets up at 5:30am no matter what day it is.
(That's the normal time we get up on a weekday)
Sometimes, he wants to get up earlier than that.
Like this morning for example.
He was quietly whining and grunting at 4am.
We just ignore him and make him wait till 5:30.
He won't bark, but he'll be just loud enough to keep me awake.
Sigh.
You're lucky you're cute, buddy.
Mikey's birthday was fast approaching.
This years theme - Transformers.
Mikey's favorite is Optimus Prime.
So, I made some Optimus chocolates for the goodie bags.
Yum.
Mikey chose to have his party at the same spray park that we hit up every year.
It was rainy all week, but then on Saturday the clouds parted to let the sun peek through.
It was a perfect day for playing in the water.
Just a slight breeze to make the kids shiver and turn blue.
No matter!
They have water guns!!
Katie got to hang with some of her preschool alumni friends.
She had a great time too.
SPRAY!
Here's Mikey's cake.
It's was big with a layer of chocolate cake, a layer of vanilla cake and chocolate frosting in between. Per his request, blue colored vanilla frosting covered the outside.
It wasn't very themed.
There were supposed to be actual Transformers toys ON the cake.
But, they were too big and Mikey was worried they'd get frosting all over them. So, we stuck with an Autobots symbol and some candles.
He was excited to dig into it.
"FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF!"
He loved the cake.
The sugar rush was almost immediate.
I swear the cake weighed about 5 pounds. All of it in sugar.
Mikey loved the cake so much.
He didn't even wait for me to cut another piece for him.
He just stuck his head into it.
(Mom okayed this action after making sure all were done with cake, of course).
Oooops. Bad idea.
Now he was ludicrous hyper.
After cake clean-up, it was present time.
Mikey's pal Sienna got him (amongst many other awesome things) a Spiderman water sprinkler where the water comes out like Spiderman's webs.
She was so excited to explain to him how it worked.
Too cute.
A few days later, Granma and Granpa came for a visit.
Here they are enjoying some video game time.
Mikey selected Papa Johns pizza as his "actual birthday" dinner.
And for his "actual birthday" special treat - brownie sundaes.
"FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF"
(again)
And then, MORE PRESENTS!!!
(Thank you!!!)
"Ooooooooooooooooooooooo."
"Mikey's 5th Birthday! Best Birthday There IS!"
