Another busy weekend

We had another weekend jam packed with holiday (and birthday) fun. First up, a Christmas play date on Friday. Thank you Jess, Joey & Caleb!! Ryan had a great time hanging out with his buddies and playing with Caleb's toys.

This is the first time that he actually sat through an entire craft! He LOVES his hand print reindeer and will tell anyone that will listen all about it.


This isn't the entire group, but I had to post it because I captured a very rare moment...Ryan is looking at my camera and smiling! (I have to admit, it's because I promised him a Hershey's kiss, but I've gotta do what I've gotta do!) Normally he does everything BUT look at the camera. Y'all will have to tell me if I'm the only one that dreams of the day he will cooperate for photos??

The whole gang


On Saturday we got to celebrate Charlie's 1st Birthday at Little Bear's Indoor Playground. Ryan loved it! It was our first time, but we'll definitely be going back!

Happy 1st Birthday Miss Charlie!

I had put Lucas in this swing which made Ryan want a turn. I think he exceeded both the height and weight limit because it was on the verge of tipping over the entire time, but what Lucas gets to do, Ryan wants to do.


Lucas was perfectly content watching all of the big kids play. (He can sit up on his own now! I keep meaning to take pictures.)


I keep telling Dave that I wanted to do one wall of Ryan's room in chalkboard paint, so I'm glad we went here first-apparently it's fun to write on, not so fun to clean!

And the best part...

After Charlie's ladybug party we drove straight over to Gavin's spiderman party!

Happy 4th Birthday Gavin, we love you very very much!

Most of you know by now that Ryan is obsessed with temporary tattoos, so he was psyched when he got a spiderman on his hand

And even more excited about the web-slinging fun he got to have with a big old can of silly string (hopefully Santa doesn't keep any of this stuff on his sleigh because we don't want any!)

And yesterday, we were lucky enough to get to go to yet another play date with Ryan's buddies to do a special Christmas craft. Thank you Dana, Thomas & Nicholas!

Unfortunately, here's my best group shot.


While all the moms worked hard on their crafts, the boys found Hungry Hungry Hippos and Elefun to be more entertaining.

So, Lucas has a jumperoo but seems to get bored pretty quickly. Rather than buy an exersaucer we borrowed Landon's. Lucas likes it, but Ryan loves it! Last night he was pushing Lucas all around the house making car noises. I asked him what he was doing and he said "Lucas and me are going to dinosaur world, we love you, bye!" First I laughed, then I grabbed the camera!