Little Boys and Birthdays
OMG. Connor turned 4. When the heck did that happen? I have a bunch of pictures of his bday party too, but this post is really focused on his overall adorableness – which is him being super cute and dragging me around the Madison Children’s Museum to show me all of the awesome things he can climb on top of…
This is the only hint of the party you all get – see, if you look veerrrrrry carefully there’s totally a piece of cake in the bottom right corner! ha! Take that birthday party!
Focus and perseverance is the only way that you can ever get a tractor with no engine to start. Connor shows me how it’s done.
These two pictures are of Connor climbing on this ridiculously scary looking jungle gym thing inside the museum. I almost had a heart attack, but he loved every single darned second of it… It was also made clear that I was quite silly for being nervous about the whole thing. Which really does make sense since there were about 500 kids climbing all over it – they must have known what they were doing, since to my surprise not one fell to their doom!
I think that Connor would make a fine cowboy someday. He looks ready to conquer the world here. Yeehaw!
Did you know Connor and Lillian are my favorites? Well, now you do.
Today was lovely. An abnormally lovely March has led me to a delightful event. Sandy, sandy toes. Don’t you like, totally wanna poke them and stuff? Well I do. Or, I suppose, I did. And yes, I did poke those toes, leading to many squeals of laughter. Unfortunately, I eventually did have to stop. It was lame. Apparently one can tickle another one’s toes ‘too much’. Lame. I’m gonna have to have a sit down chat with Connor soon about the importance of keeping his auntie happy at all times, even if it leads to his discomfort. The boy needs some priorities I think.
A volleyball net! I love volleyball. It’s sweet. Connor doesn’t know how to play yet, but he will. We’ll starting practicing how to soon. I’ll teach him, and he will love it, just like he loves everything that he does with me.
There was a lovely sequence of photos surrounding this shot, but alas I cannot post them all. I’ll just let you imagine it. I prop Lillian up against Connor. He eyes her warily, and begrudgingly puts his arm around her, his face switching between a fake smile and annoyance. I start to take pictures, and she sliiiiiiiiiiiiidddddeees down slowly. The result of this saga is that I have a bunch of pictures that I thought would be totally adorable, and really this is adorable, but it looks like he’s choking her in most of them. Oh well, live and learn I suppose.
Woaaaaah! This was a very long slide. And he looked like he’d touched one of those electric globe thingies that makes your hair stick up the very second that he touched this slide. He rocks it though.
Lillian was very sleepy after all the playing. Nap attack! Connor didn’t wanna nap though, he just wanted to wander around in circles. So we wandered around in circles…. for a really long time, and now I’m a lil sleepy. I wish I got nap time.
Hi! I’m beautiful! Don’t you wish that you had her pretty eyes? Yup. Be jealous.
Alright Mr. Purple Spotted Rhinoceros, I can take you, you don’t stand a chance. You WILL be dominated. Jerk face, always looking at me funny.
Well, and here we are. You all get extra pics this week because I couldn’t make up my mind about which ones were the cutest. Feel free to cast your vote if you like, but I like them all. Happy Sunday Funday everyone!
The First of Many?
Well, let’s see how this goes, eh? I’m planning on using this as a place to document my photographic journey as I learn how to use my new Canon EOS Rebel T3i.
More on me later, but to get us started here are some pictures of a gorgeous cake that my mom made for my nephew’s third birthday. Momma Stalder can correct me as necessary, but this is a chocolate cake. Just a chocolate cake, not her famous bourbon-chocolate which is to die for, because, after all, this is a kid’s cake! Evidently I should’ve known not to ask why she didn’t make the bourbon one. I like bourbon. I’m sure three year olds would too. It’s mostly chocolate – really! Mom – I expect bourbon chocolate cakes for all of my future children’s birthdays. I mean, it’s the Wisconsin way after all. Oh yeah, and along with a deliciously creamy chocolately cakey center, this is covered with fondant, and the whole gall blang thing is edible (I didn’t taste the wheels, but Connor seemed to love them at least!)
Obviously, we can’t forget the birthday boy! He sat next to this cake and stared at it for hours… He loves cake, he loves school buses, it seems that they’re a match made in heaven! I mean, really, I can’t think of another time when I’ve seen him so darned happy. I can imagine a future time however – it’ll be when he gets his ‘digger’ cake that is in the planning stages for a January ‘kids’ birthday party (no bourbon?). I’ll make sure to take pictures so your mouth can water over it after my mom finishes construction.
Sad panda. Is it time to eat yet?
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