story's second birthday party

the first guest arrived about 10 and the last left around 6...we are exhausted so i will do a photo tour of story's party tomorrow...off to bed...

happy second birthday story!

i can't believe story turned two today...the time goes so much faster with the second...we are busy preparing for his birthday party tomorrow. we rented a jumpy house complete with climbing area and slide but of course our yard is a swamp and it is still raining so that is looking unlikely...instead i'm getting a bunch of helium balloons and blown up balloons and we are going to swim in them and throw them at one another (?) this was actually a blast at their cousin skye's second birthday party...seems a good age to play with balloons...we are also providing haystacks (the SDA subculture term for tortilla chips topped with pinto beans, cheese, lettuce, tomato, guacamole and salsa) and i ordered a super yummy and moist tres leches cake from the local mexican bakery. they will write "happy birthday story" and cover the cake with multi-colored confetti. our favors are bags of mixed balls (bouncy balls, rubber balls, squishy balls, hard plastic, you name it)...this photo with his sister was taken at his first birthday party last year...off to get ready, clean the house, put the kids to bed...hope to have lots of photos for tomorrow's post and then i will have posted every day for the month of february! yay!

"buh-bye"

i was trying to write a post last night on my iphone and it would only let me write titles and labels...so no, i'm not going anywhere (nor is this blog)...story just started saying "bye" to people...and saying "mah-mah...buh-bye?" when i'm on the phone...telling me to say bye...then we just said bye to my mom last night and headed back to san diego...

story was saying some other cute things i wanted to remember to write down like "bum-bum" for pumpkin...and i think i've written before that "twinkle twinkle little star" is his favorite song to sing...only he hums "dadden, dadden, dadden dad...dadden, dadden, dadden, dad..." hoping to get him to bed early tonight so he'll be ready for a fun filled full birthday party tomorrow...

visiting my mom and preparing for story's party

i just can't get enough of baby shots of my children...hard to believe, story, newborn here, will be sea's age (2) on saturday. trying to plan his party and we have a jumpy house planned but rain is expected so maybe a house full of blown up balloons and helium balloons? will be hard with little and older children but we will make do...it is late and i'm still at my mom's...kids need to go to bed...i need to do laundry and work on the reunion plans...more when i have time...
my mom and sister took me out for indian food tonight for a belated birthday dinner...i love eating all different dishes with the naan and drinking mango lassis and chai tea with milk...end my meal with rice pudding of sorts with pistachios...yum! more later...here is my sister marci with story as a newborn...

sea sick story's second

sea had a fever last night and woke up still sick. she is in bed (unheard of for her during the day)...story turns 2 on saturday and i just sent out the evite for his party today (this was the photo i used)...i'm on my way to my mom's house to attend the reunion planning committee meeting and i'm irritable and tired so i'm off to pump up on something caffeinated and get some food (the first thing i usually try when i'm irritable) and will update after the meeting...

lollipop

playgroup gardening

today christina, one of the awesome moms in the monday playgroup i belong to offered to host playgroup at her house (we usually rotate parks)...it was rainy and cold earlier this morning but san diego really does want to be sunny all the time so by the time we got there it was quite warm...enough so that the kids spent most of the time helping her garden...the moms got to enjoy her homemade, delicious and healthy ethiopian food that included a cold lentil salad, warm flavorful lentils, cooked collard greens and a potato, carrot tumeric hash of sorts...so good together with the spongy "bread"...there were a lot of fun potluck items like fresh mango, homemade guacamole, flax seed and vegetable chips...i missed out on some homemade hot tea which i really should have asked for (christina offered but was so busy...i arrived late and she had already cooked and served everyone and hadn't eaten herself so i let it go)...but i always feel badly for hosts on events like this...we come and trash their house with way too many toys and then food and dishes...of course i justified i needed to go get story down for a nap but really i should have started cleaning early enough to help...off to cook dinner but i'll leave you with some photos...



looking for rolly pollies....




feeding friends chocolate bunny crackers...



they put the rolly pollies they found in the wheel barrow...