A SUPER 1st Birthday!

We celebrated our little Finners turning one with a superhero themed party. It was a super good time. Hardy-har-har.

Almost everyone came dressed in their favorite superhero t-shirt, and we even had someone show up dressed as Spiderman! The kids thought that was the BEST thing ever and it was like we had hired someone (Thanks, Nicky!).

Most of the kids and Spiderman. They are wearing masks they decorated.

He did pretty well opening his gifts. This one was more fun to crawl on top of than finish opening up. :)

 

 

Not too sure about everyone watching him...

But this cake is good, so I don't care who's watching anymore!

We were finally able to get a picture of all the super cousins, dressed and ready for action! Just pretend I'm not in the background keeping Finn entertained.

Fun pics

The outfit pictured below has become completely necessary when watching Super Why...

Oh, you're taking pictures? Take one of me flying...

And one of Gage in his "helmet" just because he's so darn cute...



Adventure Pack

The other night before bed, Addie came out of her room dressed in full adventure gear headed for the garage door. She let us know she was headed out on an adventure. As in, she was literally going to leave the house. After a serious talk that was honestly a little heartbreaking, she now (hopefully) understands that it is not ok to leave the house without mommy or daddy. Some of her protests, "But real superheroes go on adventures outside, not pretend ones." "I want to be a real superhero. They don't just pretend, they go by themselves!" Oh, it was terrifying and sad at the same time. You could just hear the desperation in her little pleas to go on a "real" adventure. After we got through that little discussion and came down off our nervous adrenaline rush, we could appreciate the cuteness of the adventure pack. See below.

On the left, her adventure outfit. Star Wars shirt, boots, and "utility" belt.
On the right, the gear she had in her adventure pack.
1) A notebook and pen - "In case anyone is hurt, I can write down what's wrong with them."
2) Umbrella
3) Water shoes
4) Mittens
5) Flashlight
6) Mini "lightsaber" - "For fighting bad guys"
7) Book - "In case anyone wants me to read them a story."

I will so miss the day when she does not have this imagination.

Make Believe and Combat Crawling

I would love to see into the mind of a 4 year old. We have some seriously fun make-believe play going on in our house these days. Addie's favorite game (this week) is "Superhero" which basically means I tell her when I hear a princess that needs rescuing and where they are and she races off to the rescue. Mario and Luigi help sometimes too (because fabulous parent that I am, she gets to play Nintendo sometimes... and she's pretty good, but that is another post entirely). The other day she told Cam that one of the princesses she rescued didn't have a home and could we please let her live here? Since then I think we have adopted about 8 princesses. I can't keep them all straight, but they have names like Britcon, Billcon, Willcon, Zogettyl, and Rudy (who is sometimes rude to the other princesses and has to be sent to Addie's room until she can be nice again). I try really hard to just play along, but sometimes I can't help but laugh at the imagination.

In the pic below she is dressed as a knight and fell asleep like this during her quiet time. Those are necklaces on her face which she fashioned into a knight's helmet. When she needs to flip the visor up, she just moves the bottom necklace in line with the top. :)

As for Gage, he is army crawling around the house these days. In the video (sorry for the quality, it's from my phone) he had just gotten the hang of it, he's a lot faster now and moving some around the house. I'm not sure if he will ever crawl the traditional way.

And yes, Addie is wearing her Superhero cape. :)