Showing posts with label birthday. Show all posts
Showing posts with label birthday. Show all posts

Friday, September 24, 2010

Train Party!

Last Friday was Oliver's 3rd birthday. The day before I got to spend the morning with him at school as a parent helper. I made some mini blueberry muffins for the snack and he got to wear a special cape and crown. All the kids sang "Happy Birthday" and his little face was beaming. Unfortunately that morning he woke up a little stuffy and coughing with his first school cold. Luckily he was back to his normal self by Saturday.

Sunday we had his party. If you ever asked him what he wanted for his birthday, his answer was always "A Train Party!" Of course 2 weeks before, we decided to take on some of the house renovations we had planned for the summer...meaning once again I had too much to do in too little time! Some little projects were scraped while I focused my attentions on other details.

The handmade birthday banner.
 Presents, presents and More presents!

To this day, Oliver still tells me he needs to open another present...

 Caroline with her youngest babies, Hank (in her arms) & Lola chilling with Felisa...(bambino not pictured)
 Miss Megan and Little Miss Amelia. Or in our house Baby 'Meelia.
Lola. She is 2 months older than Henri...





Henri just shy of 17 months. I know he isn't really a baby  but I can't come to terms with not having a baby anymore!
 The Cake.
I decided for some crazy reason to make a train cake...
It was my first experience with fondant and not that bad. I was a bit disappointed though in the morning when I realized the cake had settled and everything was droopy/smashed together. Overall it was cute AND I think it tasted pretty darn good!


 Daddy cutting the cake...you'd think he had experience serving large numbers of people...
 Oliver gets his train cake!
Sugar coma...
 Close Buddy!
 "Riding" in the train toy box from Cousins Bobby & Nick....Thanks guys!

Sorry there isn't more to read. I just really don't have the energy anymore these days....I hope the pictures are enough and all that couldn't be there were in our thoughts.
xoxo

Friday, August 20, 2010

Parties!

This summer we have seen a few parties and picnics! A few weeks ago we took the boys to our friend's for Andrea's birthday. There were a lot of kids running around the boys had a blast...

 Miss Eliot.


The lovebirds...



 Hank & Manny...
turns our Manny and his 2 brother live very close to us, even frequent the park. A few days earlier they had played together with Granny Nanny!

 He REALLY REALLY loved his Popsicle! He insisted on holding it by the Popsicle itself....oh the screams!
 

Say Cheese!

The A Team
or
Birthday Girl & Weird Guy with Mallet
or
Aaron & Andrea

Sunday, May 23, 2010

Hank the Tank turns ONE!




Can you believe it?! Henri is a year old...in a few days he'll actually be 13 months...Tonight I was looking at him and had a pang of sadness. He was standing in his "cage" with one hand holding on and his posture is that of a boy, not a baby. He is growing up way to fast. It hit me when I was bringing the boys up to bed that in a few months I won't be carrying either of them and Henri will be climbing the stairs all on his own.
tear.
cooked 39 weeks. 
hard to believe that he cooked another 2 in there!


Brand new baby boy

First and only trip to the beach...
During the crazy heat wave last summer....



First roll over to tummy on Big Brother's 2nd birthday!
Happy skeleton baby!

First snow.
First Christmas. Chewing on the tags of his new clothes...
First sitting up on his own. Xmas 2009
mmm....rocks are TASTY!

Family trip to the Japanese Gardens. April 2010




We had Henri's party on the Sunday following his birthday. We decided to go with a bit of a french theme seeing as how his name is french and it seemed appropriate for the time of year. This was my first attempt at baking a cake a shaped other than a square or circle!
 The cake in pieces at 12:30am of the party. The recipe I used to make the butter cream was crap and just was not holding right. As soon as Graham got home for work I sent him out to buy canned frosting!
I'd say he turned out pretty dang cute! So what if he leans a little?!
:)
I had some leftover streamers so I decorated the wreath for the front door.
Oliver HAD to have his picture taken too!
 Henri's cupcake.

The birthday boy!


 First Cupcake.

 Oliver with his Poppa Rick.

 Opening presents. Oliver actually opened most of the presents for Henri who was more interested in the boxes and tissue...
 No on ever shows what happens to the cake when it's time to cut it. We had some fun with this one!

Fin.
:)