Caleb's Construction 1st Birthday

CALEB TURNED ONE!!!!

 I cannot believe this boy is going to be one so to celebrate his big milestone we threw him a construction party! We are so grateful for all the friends and family that came out to celebrate our handsome little man's big day.

Some of the party Details:

 

We got each one of the kids a construction hate to wear

 

Construction cone ring toss 

Pop the balloon with your bum ...each of the balloons had a piece of paper in it 1 with WINNER and all the rest said all you found was a lousy rock! 

Wrecking ball game. just a bunch of boxes wrapped up and the ball has a center of beans to make it weight.

 

His signature birthday plate

 overview of the room

 His birthday banner made by mommy

 

His birthday invitation

 Dessert Table

Drink Station

I made his cake but Anthony did an awesome job of destroying it 

with the trucks

 

I'm so glad caleb actually tried to participate in opening gifts:

Smash Cake:

As you can see from his face he was less than thrilled to see that cake! and he was not willing to eat it :(

Happy birthday little man you have truly made our lives so full!

Letter of the week Field Trip - F is for Fire Truck

F is for Fire Station! I contacted our local fire station and asked about a tour. They were more than happy to take our cute little bunch of preschoolers all around the fire station.

St. Patricks Day 2014

When I joined a mom's group here in chino that was not part of the church I thought it was going to be a great opportunity. it has turned out to be a complete flop and the more time that goes on the more disappointing it becomes. I originally joined the group so that my kids would have other kids their age and gender to play with. The group is drastically small and the kids are few and far between. most are under 3 and Madison is the only girl besides her bestie kylie. So as caleb turns one i made the decision to start putting together holiday activities and alphabet related field trips. I dont care if one person comes or 20 it doesn't matter. I really need to learn not to rely on other people for the experiences I want my children to have. SOOOO I set up a st patricks day theamed party and playgroup for all the kids! When I plan these before I just set up treats and and activity. I do a leprechaun hunt every year. the first year the kids got a lucky penny if they "caught" a leprechaun. this year if you caught a leprechaun then you got to have his gold (which i adheared to the back of the leprechaun.


















We hid those little buggers everywhere we could find a place to hide them.

 I also decided that this year we would do a craft. so we painted 4 leaf clovers or shamrocks.

                                                       

Each of the mom's were asked to bring a st patricks day themed treat to share with everyone. All the mom's did a great job.

The best part about having these activities in a park is that there are plenty of things for the kids to do to get all the sugar and energy out!

 She loves the swings I saware she was just concentrating

 Can I see your camera mommy??

                                                She was proud of catching her leprechaun.


















 I let caleb have a cookie with green frosting I'm pretty sure he thought he was in heaven and the picture above is what his face looked like when I took away the last little piece he dropped on the floor.

Santa Anna Zoo

Anthony's Schedule since he moved to montclair has been all over the place they can's seem to find a day he can have off on a consistent basis which is annoying to say the least. it makes grocery shopping difficult because i never know when I'm going to get to go again. Anyways, since he had only worked 1 day in between his days off I obviously didn't need to go to the grocery store AGAIN. so we decided to take the kids on a little daycation trip to the zoo. we thought the LA zoo would be a little much with Caleb still on the young side so we decided on the Santa Ana zoo. we had been there before when Madison was just over a year old and it was a pretty good zoo. This time we weren't impressed. A lot of the animals are gone around 90% of the cages are monkey's now and the other animals they have are mostly farm animals. they kids had a pretty good time. we stayed and ate lunch and then headed home right after. The best part of the day is that we got to spend it as a family and that was what really mattered to me.

at least most of the animals come really close to the front of the cage! Caleb got a good view.

 playing in a giant dinasour egg (which they have no dinosaur exhibit for...don't ask i don't have a clue)

Madison begged me to touch the goat and I told her  no because they smelled really bad!