The Birthday Epidemic

It all started with Pooh Bear's surprise birthday party.... and then it just snowballed into a fortnightly thing or something, where someone or other of your toys would need to have  a birthday party.

Seeing how you aren't really demanding as far as birthday party itineraries go ( You're usually pretty much happy if there's cake or cupcake ), I usually oblige and try to convince you to space them out a little.

So far we have also had

Elmo's Surprise Birthday

White Bear's Surprise Birthday

( I know, this was my attempt at not using too much icing, but still have some decoration on the cake - and it worked.. lol, you loved it )

and Moose's Not-A-Surprise Birthday

 

Little Pooh Bear Jr.'s birthday has already been scheduled to be next.

Hoy.

The Gamer

It has been about a year and a half since we've been to any "arcade" type place.  I think guilt finally set in, after denying you for so long, and it's not for the lack of you asking. :) Everytime we go by the mall, you would ask to go to Chuck E Cheese's, and if we drove by the Expo Center, you would ask to go to Prime Time.

I mean, you may not remember a lot of things from when you were 3, but you sure remember them arcades! LOL

Anyway, last Friday, after mummy had had a brief stop shopping at the Ditto's sale, we finally relented and stopped by Prime Time.

We watched the go-karts whiz by, and decided that THAT particular "ride" might have to wait till you were a little older :)

When we got inside, there was a bunch of ACU students bowling and having a pizza party.  Of course you tried to grab the first bowling ball you came across, was surprised that you couldn't budge it, and wanted to go look for one that was "more your size".

 

Of course, the main attraction was the arcade area.  There was a "little peeps" area, where we played some games, enough to redeem a bunch of little "prizes" :)

Your favorite game in the place, though, was the air hockey table. You and I played it twice :P

As we were walking out to the car, we see a couple of girls resting up, with golf clubs and balls in hand.  Daddy asked them if we could borrow their gear so that you could at least hit the ball a few times, and they were so gracious and readily handed the stuff over :)

Hopefully we won't have to wait that long again till we come back :)

I'm no Bill Nye

but that didn't stop us from doing some cool science stuff as we read "Katy and the Big Snow" and "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening".

I had read about this on all the Pinterest boards, and was really happy that we could finally have a chance to make our Borax Crystal snow flake crystals.

We even made a snowman! :)

Storyboard

You are quite a prolific artist, and I've tried to make sure you've been able to  have materials within easy reach, so that you can express yourself that way.

 

 

You have recently, though, been incorporating more and more elaborate storylines into your drawings, which you call "levels", like in your Angry Bird games, complete with teleport portals, explosions, signage and whatnot.

It's Pumpkin Season

You 've grown up with a camera in your face just about every day, so naturally you can pose/ham it up at the drop of a hat. :)

 

 But, more often than not, it's almost like you're NOT looking at the camera on purpose, prefering to just do your thing... which is great with me, since I think candid shots capture your personality better :)

 

You were really more interested in picking out the straw from the hay bales more than hanging around and posing, but no matter :)

 

Nothing better than flinging straw into the wind once you're done with it :)