Me money!!

Aaron is constantly scavenging for money.  If I've left my purse on the table it's common to find him digging into it to find my coin purse to take a few coins off my hands.  In return I am constantly finding coins on the floor, picking them up and returning them to my coin purse.  When he sees me holding coins he instantly runs over and says "Me money"  to ask for them back.  It's a never ending cycle.

There is no doubt about it this kid knows what he wants.  When we were in Sam's Club the other day we strolled past the chips and crackers and Aaron sees this ginormous jar of cheese balls.  Aaron got so incredibly excited saying "me want those, me want those" that I couldn't say no.  He was such a happy camper when I gave it to him that he hugged it the rest of the time in the store.

My phone is Aaron's favorite toy lately.  He'll sneak off with it and be found watching "Fireman Sam, Bob the Builder, Barney, Mickey Mouse Clubhouse or other favorites courtesy of Amazon Prime.  He also loves to take pictures with it and giggles and giggles when he takes pictures of his feet.

In case your dying for one of these blurring photos, I'd be happy to share since there is only 400 of these on my camera roll.

Aaron is all about multiple wardrobe changes throughout the day. His room is in a constant state of disaster with clothes tossed about and figuring out which is clean and dirty is quite a chore.   I'm considering hiding his clothes, especially now that the "rocket" ship washing machine took orbit and no longer works and we are temporarily out of the laundry business.  But that's another story......

Let's go to the movies

Emily was so excited to have a birthday party this year.  Her birthday fell during Spring Break which allowed us to have an afternoon party on the day of her Birthday!  She got so excited when she realized that she was born at 2pm and her party was going to start at 2 pm.  All week long she was counting down the days until her party.  On Wed she announced that tomorrow I will be able to say "Tomorrow is my birthday."   She had so many ideas of what to do.  At first she wanted to go to Chucky Cheese.  I told her that was fine but she could only invite like 1 friend.  Emily said she would rather have a big party so a home party was the other option.  She wanted to have the party at the park.  That would have been easy but April is too unpredictable to guarantee the weather would cooperate.  She wanted her friends to bring their favorite stuffed animal and the party evolved from a Teddy Bear Picnic to a "movie theme" party.

First things first my sister Allyson, who is always so willing to help with graphic design stuff, came up with these movie ticket invitations.  I only had the digital copy left but if you cut in the middle it becomes two invitations. 

 After the guests had arrived we went outside to the driveway and played a game of "Sidewalk Chalk movie pictionary"  Basically they took turns picking a piece of paper out of a bowl with a popular movie.  The made a drawing of the movie while the others tried to guess what movie it was.

We then went inside and played this matching game where you match the saying with the right movie.  

At this point everyone wanted Emily to open their present so we took a break from the games and Emily opened presents.

These glasses were the hit of the party!  Who says you need to spend a lot of money on gifts? 

 After the presents were opened the kids broke off into 2 groups and with their stuffed animal they went outside and made up a movie.  After some time I came out and filmed their creation.  Then we came inside and watched the 2 movies.  The girls loved seeing their movie on the big screen.

Next up was cake time.  I loved that these cupcakes were so easy and Emily approved. 

With some time to spare one of the girls suggested they take the water stick Emily got from one of the guests and go outside and have a water fight.  I've never been so happy for nice weather and a big back yard.  They were all in heaven running around.

 I spent some time on the internet and with Emily's approval we made some goodie bags for the guests to take home.