The kids seemed to have a good time playing out under the shade of the trees. Michael was off for the day and got to come with us.
A rare picture of Colin and I at a park!
Our lovely hostess, eating some of the yummy fruit she brought us all for a snack.
We love it when daddy gets to come to the park with us!
What a fun morning with great friends!
Lauren had the whole house decorated so cute and the kids enjoyed playing with all the balloons, streamers, and leis she had out for them!
Colin spent a large part of the afternoon fascinated with the streamer palm tree in the middle of the living room and doing this:
Maybe I should get one of these for our house to keep him occupied?
And finally a bite of cake. Doesn't she look like, "um, mom, stop singing and give me the cake?" Look at that focus!
Yum! Finally!
And another of Colin, who kept slyly sidling up to Nick for a bite of cake after he finished off daddy's plate! He was cracking us up, he walk over and lean back against Nick and then tilt his head to look back and grin at him! Too funny!
After some rest (but not nap) time at home, we headed over to our neighbor's for Izaiah's birthday barbeque. Didn't stay long because Colin was getting too tired to stand up straight, but I've got a picture for ya of him snagging a ride in the Ford with one of the girls...ladies' man!
A part of our daily routine. Colin LOVES to brush his teeth and actually likes us to help him do it too. Very impressive.
Michael gave him his first real taste of toothpaste though. Normally we just do it with water. He wasn't as sure of that! LOL!
Near and far video, as promised. I didn't get him saying both at the same time. :( But you get the idea!
We lazed around a during the day. Michael got home around lunchtime, which was nice. I've got some funny video (which I'll have to compress before getting it on here) of Colin doing "near-far" (Grover-style) with Michael.
At first the kids (mostly boys) were hesitant to get their fingers all the goopy, messy fun, but Colin showed them how it was done! :) I cannot understand the desire to stay clean...(weird, huh Aunt Katelyn!) :)
We had a dozen kids, but only two sweet little girls. Here's Kiki:
And a couple of Miss Lily:
The glue-sticker-cardboard-pompom-pipecleaner-etc. station.
Colin, watching from a distance, when things got a little crazy. He kept going to the top of the slide, "scoot-scoot-scoot-ing" to the edge and then saying "hot" and refusing to go down.
Back painting again.
Boy he's good at gettin' messy!
And here they are lining up to go inside for snacks. We had yummy fruit trail bars and Jello. Then the kids all played inside in the air conditioning for a while before heading home! We had a great morning and enjoyed spending time with all our friends.
I didn't get many good pics on my camera, so hopefully Laura got some. Colin was so funny, he was neighing the whole time and would point to everyone on the way around and say, "dada!" "papa!" "oma!". Too cute!
He pigged out on the way home!
His dinner came with some really cute potato faces!
We got home kind of late and Colin stayed up even later running to each of his toys and playing with them. He went in his room and turned absolutely every toy on and then stepped back to watch them all go at once!
Here are a couple more pictures of him "helping" us unpack!
