Happy 5th Bug!

August 26, 2009

Okay so the party for Max actually occured on August 16th but better late than never! We went to a place called Jeno's Pizza. They have a great play area. There are bikes, HUGE slide, tunnels to crawl through, a giant overhead bridge, mini disco... I could go on. You'll see some of it in the pics but I took 87 and well, that's a bit much to post! Here's a few of my fav's...

The room decorated with transformer colors and table setting. Such a boy!

The birthday cupcakes! Don't you just LOVE the colors. And talk about options... you could do colors for any event... the 4th red, white and blue, Halloween - orange and black. You get the idea.

Inside - so fun!


The giant bridge overhead leading to a castle turret.

Tunnels and things to climb.

Ball pit. I don't think they liked this too much :o)

GIANT SLIDE!!!!

Ava and Liam were fans. I even caught the Mom's and Dad's taking a ride.

The magic show about to begin... come on kids!

The magician's little helper -

THE BIRTHDAY BOY!

Look carefully at the bag...

Hey, where'd that bird come from?

I LOVE Raquel's face in this photo!

First he poured water in her ear, when nothing came out he tapped her head as she tipped it over the newspaper and then VOILA water came pouring out into the cup. You had to see it.

Even the parents enjoyed the show!

Of course he pulled a rabbit out of his hat before he left.

Ice cream anyone?

That came, of course, BEFORE the healthy pizza lunch.

Time to sing to the birthday boy.

I was so disappointed in the photo's here. There was sooooo much light from the window behind it washed out all my photos.

Blowing out the candles.

VIDEO!

If you have a few minutes watch this great video. It's in spanish but the magic is so fun.

First let me catch you up to speed. The magician pulled an egg out of Max's bum. Disturbing I know. Then he cracked the egg into the bowl he is holding. He took a shirt from Arturo and lined his magic hat with it and put the raw egg inside. I wish you could make the video bigger because the horror on Max's face at the end is priceless!

BTW - I understood the Spanish so much better when I watched the video than the first time around. There is hope for me!

Magic

May 5, 2009

Max LOVES magic. Always has. Yesterday we were playing with these cool blocks that my sister got Maggie for Christmas and somehow we ended up doing magic. I had a tiny block in my hands and was shaking it. Max would say "abracadabra alakazoo make the block disappear from you". While he was talking I would drop the block in my lap. He was soooo excited. Then he'd say "abracadabra, alakazam, make the block appear..." and he'd pick a place like "behind my ear". Again, I'd grab the block from my lap when he wasn't looking and make it appear. Then he wanted to try. He would shake the block, say his phrase and "huhhhh" a disgusted sigh as the block was still in his hand. He tried this 3 times before becoming agitated and saying, "God dammit"! So darn cute but of course I had to play that one off! Oh and clearly, he got that from me. But hey it's better than a lot of things he could have picked up - right? Anyway, I stroked his sweet little cheek and told him those weren't nice words to say even when frustrated. Then I told him Mama and Papa went to magic school at 6 so when he turns 6 he will be able to do magic too. I got a sad little, "okay" and he put the block down. My poor little bug was so defeated!

Magic of one kind and another

May 24, 2008

Today is Maggie's birthday - yeah! I will post photo's etc later but first...

Max and Maggie were doing "magic tricks" the other night. It was so cute. So I took a video with my new camera YEAH! The magic is funny all on it's own but also is funny how Max gave me an opportunity to show all those with little ones just how well MAGIC 1-2-3 works. That's the discipline program we use. Now granted we have been using it for over a year now but I will say it started working this easily in a matter of days. Watch the MAGIC...