Finger painting

I saw on Annalee's blog a long time ago how to make finger paints that are safe for little ones..I printed it out and now almost 6 mo later I gave it a try! Needless to say he loved it! It is water, flour and food coloring..which is great because he still puts all paints and markers right into his mouth. He put this in his mouth today and was unimpressed with its taste!!

I found 3 pictures from all the ones I took that had his tongue out..cracked me up at how hard he was concentrating!

Big surprise here!

So much for keeping the table clean..

We each got our faces painted...his was a bit more elaborate!

My table is actually leather..this may not have been the best place to paint in hindsight!!

I now have some purple grout!! It actually came up pretty easily..

After I took theses videos he asked to watch them..he kept saying "one more time" about 200 times. I don't think he knows what one more time really means!! As always, please excuse my voice!!

sweet

I just thought this was to sweet to not share..he loves all 7.5 of his cousins soooo much!!

Zoo day with Daddy and Tutti

To say we have gotten our money out of our Zoo pass would be a huge understatement!! When I was working on Friday Bradley and his mom, Tutti, took Charlie to the Zoo. What a fun day for all of them! In case anyone missed the memo..Charlie changed Mutti to Tutti..and it sounds so stinkin cute when he says it!! Petting the baby longhorn..Daddy is nicer then I am..I often skip this one, cause you just have to wash your hands again and even then, the smell doesn't go away..
this is another must do every time we are there..somethings never get old..

Cool guy in his tiger shirt next to the tiger...love his face!!

Charlie and Tutti getting ready to watch a show..another nice thing Daddy does..mommy skips the shows cause they are usually really hot..its getting to that point in the summer that the heat is really whipping me down and I am ready for cool weather..only 3 more months right...:(

told you we never miss a Bonnie picture!! Charlie says "Thanks Daddy and Tutti!"

Zoo day

So, I decided to take Charlie to the Zoo today..and that makes me a great mom to suffer through that sweltering 107 degree heat...okay, so it may not have been that hot, but that's what my car said! I asked Christy and Brady to join us at the last minute..knowing a day with another kiddo there would be much more fun for Charlie then a day with just mom!!..and more fun for me!

This was their train..Aunt Christy was nice enough to let them play on it ...I was dying in the heat and was ready to head indoors to the air conditioning.Come on..so cute!!Waving to all their peeps..
Bless his heart..he could not figure out where the voice was coming from and sat listing to this for a long time!!

Aunt Christy was trying to show them how to shield your eyes and peek in..she told them what to do with their hands and they did the same thing...it was wrong, but they looked too cute!!

Checking out the white tiger..look how cute she looks with #4 on the way!!!

Every time we go we go see Bonnie..never gets old!

Every time they play together they get better and better at just playing 'sweetly"..!!

The stroller served perfectly for them to stand ..see..sit..nice!

This was the highlight of my day..no, not the part where all the monkeys were having lots of sex..that part made me feel awkward for looking and yes, I was giggling like a 5 yr old! The highlight was Charlie and the monkeys interacting. Charlie would bang on the glass and they would bang back....then one got up and began running towards Charlie...and this is what you get!!!
Nice...it was a great day followed by a great nap!! Thanks for comming Aunt Christy and Brady!!

Sorry this is sideways..I did not realize it until blogger had in on here and you know that it takes FOREVER, so by then I was not taking it off!! Grandparents may be the only ones to enjoy this, but he is saying " I love you" now instead of his " I see you" which used to mean "I love you"..

Funny

Why does this never cease being funny??

best 75 cents ever spent..

75 cents for them to ride a game equals approx 2 min of uninterrupted adult conversation!!

His day!

This was from his b-day breakfast at home... My morning child!! I love how happy he is..assuming he has gotten his "bi-ta-min and Tar-tin"..he rolls out of bed asking for them!!
I love any reason to use the special plate!

I told Charlie he could have whatever he wanted for his b-day breakfast and his request was "Yogurt, boo-berries and cherries"...bless his heart!!

Top is off with the worlds greatest Mickey Mouse cup full of milk and its the beginning of a great day!!

..cant have a birthday breakfast without candles..which he asked for at every meal that day!!

he blew them out by himself!!!!

Thsi deserves a post of it's own!!!

What a good Tutti!!!

B-day part 2

I am over the effort involved in putting pictures onto shutterfly just to put them on the computer then to add them onto blogger..so, with that I chose my top 5 from the ones my mom sent me!!

Love that face!
You may think his face looks super excited here, but he was really screaming at me to let him keep playing with the toys he was opening!

BEST. GIFT. EVER!!

Who knew shoes were so exciting..he has asked to wear the numerous times!!

The water balloons were lost on him, but everyone else was doing it so he joined in!!

B-day part one!

Lots of words will not be the theme in this super long post!! My computer has been acting up again so I am hoping to do a marathon of blogs before it dies again, but we will see!!

Charlie's party was so much fun last year we pretty much stuck with the same thing this year! We did a swimming party at my in-laws pool area and pretty much just changed the theme from camo to Mickey Mouse...for anyone who knows me ..this was a sacrifice for my sweet son..you know I am not a character person!!

This picture was number 700ish in my mom's attempt to get my Minnie mouse tattoo..I told her not to get my nose..not my favorite..and in her attempt to cut it out it only got big and bigger!

My poor sweet Dad spent pretty much the entire time blowing up water balloons for the kids..by kids I mean the adult/kids...after about 100 balloons I was out! I kinda remember telling SOMEONE that it would be a good idea to do this ahead of time...but what do I know...

Yes, this floaties are not coast guard approved....but they keep him alive and above water which is more then I can say for the TWO coast guard approved life vest we have..any negative comments for the floaties can bite me...can you tell I've had this conversation a time or two!

LOVE IT!!!

He knew just what to do since Daddy's b-day was in July..he blew so hard, but just could not get those candles out without some help!! I meant to get a family picture of Bradley and I in our $4 Mickey mouse shirts and Charlies $7 Mickey Mouse new bathing suite..but that was just one of a 100 pictures I did not get that day!!

Cake ball # 15..I wish I was kidding, but I saw this kid with more cake balls in his hands then I care to count!! He would ask different people and who's gonna tell the birthday boy no!!..and since there was about 100 cake balls, 15 could go unnoticed!!

This is the only picture I got of the Mickey Mouse cake balls I made..just a cake ball on a lollipop stick, but I used M&M's for ears before I dipped them..turned out pretty cute!! I can say that since there is no actual picture!

see, more cake balls...

This boy loves his "motorcycle"...I felt bad that we give it to him..and then take it away, get onto him for screaming and make him open another one just to take it away...vicious cycle!!

No need to get off the tricycle to open more gifts!

Many little helpers!

He loves this t-ball thing and plays with it every day and has found that the bat is multi purpose..uh oh!!

So far he is still a lefty..I cracked the joke that I was gonna encourage baseball since he is left handed and that did not go over well with Bradley! He tried to act like we would never force sport on him...who is he kidding, its just cause he hates baseball!!

All the kiddos! I am amazed they all sat still for so long..and it was a long time!!

I think this may be my favorite picture from the day!!!

This just cracks me up..what else can we get on him!

The minute he gets shades..he thinks he is too cool!!

"What up"

This one I put in here thinking of my brothers..any guesses why???

Texas Star cake...need I say more!! This is not the one I really wanted, but since that one was $174, this became the one I wanted!!

Once I get the other ones off shutterfly I will do b-day part 2!