Unhappy robot

I made Sebastian a robot costume, but he HATED it.

I took it off as soon as it was clear he was not going to recover from his tantrum.

Emmett had fun too

Hoosier Courts anniversary

Hoosier Courts had a big anniversary party a couple weekends ago. Julien's old friends Graham and Andrew came into town for the event. Julien had a blast seeing his old friends. Sebastian was excited to hang out with the big kids.

A little wound up

The boys got a little wound up, but were relatively well behaved, considering how loud and packed it was (and how long we had to wait for food-luckily someone gave us a couple pieces of pizza to give the kids). We left soon after this bit of wrestling.

Sebastian eats cake

Sebastian found a lap to sit on (I did not know this guy, but I did know the mom), and happily ate his cake.

Cake!

Georg'ann's 50th

Georg'ann, the Executive Director of Bloomington Area Birth Services, turned 50! BABS had a party for her at the local alternative pizza place as a fund raiser for BABS. It was a scene!

It took us about an hour to get our pizza and it was incredibly loud, but it was fun to see so many families together. A couple BABS people led a rowsing chorus of "This new mom" (this old man) and "Booby Boob" (Scooby Doo).

Georg'ann seemed very happy.

Quadrilla

Julien was very excited with the "Quadrilla" wooden marble run that Grandpa Bill and Grandma Jan sent him for his birthday. It is fun to build and fun for Sebastian to knock down (which does not always make Julien happy). Both boys enjoy sending the marbles down the track.

Mentos experiment

I forgot to add that at the end of Julien's party I performed the Mentos Coke experiment. Have you ever seen this on the web? If you add Mentos to Coke it creates a very impressive geyser. I can tell you that it impresses 6 and 7 year olds. On the Monday after Julien's birthday all of Julien's class mates created birthday cards for him. Diego drew this lovely picture of me performing the mentos experiment. Julien said, "you look funny mommy!" It may not look much like me, but clearly the experiment impressed him! I look like I am about to get soaked.

The last night

On the final night of Kathy and Rick's visit Kathy read Julien a bed time book, Children Through Time (one of the new birthday books) while Rick read Sebastian a pokemon book. It was an nice, snugly scene.

In the morning, before going to school and pre-school, Kathy read Sebastian Julien's new DK Knights book. After Kathy and Rick left, the boys missed all the good reading time they had with their grandparents. It was a good visit!

After the party

After the party Sebastian enjoyed playing with the air "stomp" rocket. Even grandad had to try it out. It's pretty fun, the rockets can shoot higher than the roof.

Later in the evening both kids enjoyed playing with all the new toys on the train table.

Presents

Julien got lots of fun presents from star wars speeders to a make your own volcano kit, a police accessory set, and a paint your own bird house.

You can see Sebastian in the background with his buddy Demaris and Demaris' mom.

All and all it was a very fun, very exhausting birthday party. And I have promised next year to cut down the number of kids invited.

Cake!

Once again I made a yummy chocolate cake from scratch. Kathy decorated it with lots of instruction from Julien.

Playing games

We played a few games including setting off an air "stomp" rocket (fun but hard with so many kids) spiders and flies (which didn't work very well because I didn't really understand the rules), boys against girls soccer (which went really well) and finally some free play, including petting Emmett.

Baking soda and vinegar chaos

The next activity, baking soda vinegar and food coloring, was way too chaotic and messy. I had to try to transition quickly to the next activity, but not before Julien poured his cup of foam over a friend, Augie's head. Augie thought it was funny, but I did not, so Julien had a timeout.

Touching the snow

The snow felt so neat, the kids couldn't resist touching it after pouring their cups of snow into the bucket. Julien's crush object, Gretchen, is the little girl with her foot in th bucket wearing a halter top.

Insta-snow

Insta snow was the big hit of the party. One tiny scoop of insta-snow powder combined with 2oz of water creates a full cup of a snow like substance. Supposedly it is what is used to create snow on movie sets. It is quite convincing. A little goes a long way, so kids were able to repeat the "experiment" over and over. Grandmum Kathy and Diego's dad, Jay, were a huge help. Jay ran back to the house to refill the jugs of water a couple times.

Science party

On October 5th we had a Science Birthday Party for Julien. It was lots of fun, although we invited a few too many kids. Including girls, boys, younger siblings as well as Julien and Sebastian, we had fifteen in all. Juline invited five girls from the first grade, including Gretchen, the object of Julien's first crush and whose younger sister is in Sebastian's pre school class.

The activity pictured here is building structures out of toothpicks, starbursts, marshmallows and cheetos. Some kids, for example Julien, were too busy eating to build, but several kids built really cool things. There structures seemed telling of personality. Julien's best friends in this crowd are Jackson, in a Manning jersey, and Avi who built a cube. Avi was also in Julien's pre-school and kindergarten.