busy

Noni and Popi left this morning, we had a great time with them and I'm sure they both need a vacation after their "vacation" to texas.  With so many little kids you don't get much of a break during the day, someone needs something all-the-time.  They did a great job (as always) of keeping up with the brood, walking countless miles and playing all sorts of games, whether it be princess stuff or planes.  After being here for 12 days I can't imagine how quiet it is going to be once they get back home...

Tea party with Noni

Noni is here visiting us and the first thing the kids wanted to do when she got here was have a tea party, we welcome our guests in style around these parts.  Who wouldn't want animal cookies and water served by this group and such a handsome waiter complete with gold beads and all?

Hockey

O is pretty athletic and picks up most sports pretty easy, sportsmanship is a whole different subject we're working on.  We got him a hockey net/sticks for his birthday, would you think any different?  Kev, Miles and him have been practicing every night, he usually assumes the role of the goalie (Papa??), guess it runs in the family.

Can we suck your blood?

One of the pinata fillers was vampire teeth, I think the girls were more excited about them then all the candy combined.  They wore them all over the place that night, I have no idea how cause after about two minutes in my mouth they were hurting my gums.

Keira especially likes them,  she is convinced she's gonna wear them out trick or treating even though she's gonna be a princess.

I especially love this picture, the innocence is captured perfectly.

Mud anyone?

We got a lot of rain on saturday night, O and his best bud Miles found some mud to play in and play they did.  I'm all about kids being kids and don't worry about the mess left behind, not sure about how Kelly felt but it was too late by the time she came out to check on them they were already filthy (my fault).  After the initial shock of head to toe mud she was ok with it or at least didn't kill me for it.

the end result, they even dunked their heads in the mud

time to wash off

look at the guns on these two, be afraid be very afraid

lets ride bikes  now Miles, who needs clothes anyway?  Yes we are those people in the neighborhood, the crazy people.

I'm five

We celebrated O's fifth birthday on thursday, his first official birthday party with friends (from the neighborhood and school).  It was a busy day but I think the kids had a lot of fun and that's all that matters.  Happy Birthday big guy, we love you!

we rented a bouncy house, it got pretty crowed in there.  We only had a few injuries which is to be expected with so many boys being crazy.

to cool off we did bobbing for halloween duckies, pretty funny.

moved on to a water balloon fight, it took three times as long to fill the balloons as it did to break them all.

I decided to do make your own sundae bar instead of cake/cupcakes since I had already sent those into school in the morning.  Can you say ice cream soup?

lining up for the pinata

O gets the first swing, it was a Rio pinata and it was huge (much bigger than I had expected).  We had it custom made in Mexico and that sucker was strong, each kid got at least 10 hits and finally Kev had to step up and break it open.

let the chaos begin, Fin is apparently not interested in the loot.

O and his bud Mateo from school

yes I was at the party, holding my sidekick and manning the camera as usual.