Oh, blog. This has been a rough year for you and I. My once daily posting habit has dwindled to a rediculously lame once a month at best activity level. lame lame lame. So, in attempt to reconcile our strained relationship, I’ve decided to overcompensate for my neglect and throw out a post a day until the end of the year. This is big time and I swear on my 85 1.2 that I will not let you down. Now, the caveat of this comittment is that I am in no way obligated for any of these posts to be interesting, relevant, socially significant, ground breaking or otherwise. They just are what they are. Oh, and they’re gona be long!
So, without further ramblings, here’s exibit A:
We went down to the town of Blue Bell the first week in December. My fabulous Aunt still lives down there and it had been an embarrassingly long time since we had payed her a visit. Our goals were to 1) celebrate Jon David’s fifth birthday AND 2) participate in the annual Downtown Christmas Strool and Parade. That’s a whole lot of activity for 48 hours and way too much for one blog post, so let’s start with JD’s fiesta.
We had some friends that were supposed to come up from Houston and help JD celebrate, so we decided to make a big deal out of his party. My clever aunt hired a crazy talented balloon making face painting magician of a clown for the event and we were set to make 5 year old party history. However, the crazy snow storm of 2009 hit Houston that weekend and no one could make the trip, so there Eleanor and Jon David were with a crazy talented clown all to themselves! Party on!
JD wasn’t too sure about the face painting thing. So, we told him he could open one present if he’d then agree to get his face painted. Worked like a charm!
Waiting patiently to untie the gazillion wires from his new Buzz Lightyear.
Bat Jon David.
And some playtime with our new friend…
Eleanor fared pretty well in with all the festivities as well!
Balloon time!
This is what a magic show for two looks like.
Cake time!
And we wound up the festivites with an impromtu dual.
And, there you go little blog and thank you to Aunt BB for the unforgetable Birthday Pary! Next up…the Christmas Stroll!
Hope everyone is enjoying their holidays with their friends and family! MWAH!
Cooper loves YO GABBA GABBA, so naturally, this was his theme. Here he is in his DJ Lance outfit! SO CUTE!
Stacey at The Wildflower did an amazing job with the party design. Here is the room before most of the little one’s attacked it. I love the green rug and lounge pillows. They all hung out there and watched a 70 foot screen that streamed the best of the YO GABBA GABBA videos!
Every little detail was tended to. Here are just a few shots of the zillions of cute decorations and goodies scattered throughout the party.
Cooper had a blast running a chasing and dancing with his friends! Happy Birthday to sweet Cooper!
Thanks for letting me come play at your party! Can’t wait to play some more at your two year session! MWAH!
My son is almost 2 (almost named him Cooper) and he is in love with Yo Gabba Gabba! He will hand me the remote and when I put it on, he gets a huge grin on his face. At first, I couldn’t stand it. It IS the most bizarre show ever. But now, it’s kind of catchy. Looks like you all had a lot of fun!
Love the pictures, you always do a great job and love to look at your photos of Cooper. My Cooper is 3 and was the “balloon boy” you took a picture of at the party!
awww….these are perfect! you did a great job of documenting the event. love the ones of him in his those glasses…too cute!
What a fabulous party and wonderful photos! I still can’t get over that DJ Lance outfit….to die for!!