My Baby Turned 5!

On 19 May we had Bucky's 5th birthday party at Johnny G's. It's a local place that is so great for parties! We chose the Superhero room since Bucky enjoys that right now. After we picked the room, he decided on a cake with Spiderman without even knowing about the room. It all worked out nicely. After the kiddos ate pizza and cake and Bucky opened his gifts, they all got some tokens for games and a wristband for rides. It seemed like everyone had a wonderful time, especially the birthday boy :).

Spiderman

Captain America

With his cake

Hulk

Laughing at everyone singing "Happy Birthday"

Blowing out the candle

Family Pic :)

Icing all around

Air Hockey with Addison

The Dragon ride (miniature of the one that was at Miracle Strip)

Spin Zone Bumper Cars with PJ

Mini Golf

Posing for Me

TBall

I never in a million years thought I would ever, ever cheer for a northern sports team (unless, of course, one of my kiddos decides to play sports at a college up there)...but I cheer for the Mets this year. Well, I cheer for the 3-4 yr old Mets that is. Bucky's team has real uniforms this time with team names on them and he was picked for the Mets. They are learning how to slide and I must say that he loves it. His pants were dirty before the practice and game even started because he was going back and forth between 2nd and 3rd bases to slide. It's hilarious watching this age group learn such a difficult skill but our kiddo has greatly improved. They had a scrimmage with another team on this day. The rules were simple. Everyone hits and runs all the bases no matter what. The team in the field tries to tag the runner with the ball. They all had a great time!

Practicing Sliding

Up to Bat

Sliding into Home

Happy to Score

Trying to tag someone out

Birthday Pics

I finally took out my camera to take some pics of the boy for his birthday. I think I may need to buy a new one soon after seeing the final shots. I got some really cute ones but my camera did not focus all the way so they are a little blurry. Oh well...here goes...

So excited to be 5!

He came up with this one...it made me laugh when he did it

Cutie Pie

Starting to laugh at mama standing in the rain

And then he enjoyed a sweet, juicy Georgia peach!

What A Difference

 A year makes. Today is our baby's 5th birthday and we couldn't be more proud of the handsome and wonderful little boy that he has become. We love our precious little one more and more each day and look forward to watching him continue to grow and learn. Look at how he's changed!

2012

2011

We started off the morning with him jumping into our bed and we sand "Happy Birthday" to him while he smiled and giggled. Then we gave him his bike to ride later after we exchange it because it's a little too big. He proceeded to open the package from Gamma and Grandaddy and it was so funny to watch him tear through it all yet talk about it all. It broke his heart when it was time to get dressed to go to school. Until he remembered he got to take some cupcakes for everybody :).

The little girl across the street that Bucky has grown quite fond of playing with as often as is allowed baked him some cookies last night. She came over after school and gave them to him along with a beautiful card she designed. (Excuse the white Asian kids in the picture - the sun was really bright! :) )

Monster Bookmarks

I admit it...I am hopelessly addicted to Pinterest. There are so many wonderful ideas for so many different activities and meals and, well, everything you can think of and it's hard to not look at all the cool stuff. Today (since I had nothing else to do) I made a couple of bookmarks that I have been eyeing. It took me a while to find some good instructions because people put one pin on top of another pin and the last person in the chain is stuck searching for the actual instructions. After I found the correct step by step, I got to work. I want to make more for Bucky to take to Kindergarten next year for books they are reading or for little gifts or whatever may come along. I did learn today that it may be best to cut out a lot of pieces and then line them up like an assembly line. So keep this in mind if you are interested in trying this craft. Once all the pieces are cut, it's only a matter of folding and gluing the pieces into place.

I found the tutorial with pictures here: Corner Page Bookmarks. I changed a couple of things on mine because I know that they will not last long enough for me to stress about a couple of the steps. I did not use a patterned triangle on the top because I felt like it was too busy and I wanted the pattern or different colored paper to be like the inside of the mouth. I traced the bottom of a large glue stick for the white part of the eyes and used the large dot on the black Zig Dotta-Riffic marker for the pupil. I skipped the iris because I think they look great without this extra step. Do what you want but I just wanted to share what I figured out along the way.

End of Soccer

The kiddo had his last soccer game on the 28 of April and it was a great game. Hubs and I are both thrilled that he enjoys sports so much and wants to continue playing them. He does great at them and is learning so much about discipline and playing as a team.

Warming Up

A Pic for Me :)

Dribbling the Ball

Scoring a Goal!

So Happy!

Popsicles for Pops

On 27 April, Bucky's PreK had a day for dads. All dads, grandfathers, uncles, or whoever were invited for Popsicles for Pops. Although there were only about 4 dads who were able to make it, my hubs made it and that's all that really mattered to our kiddo. He ended up being surrogate dad for a lot of the kids because he was playing with all of them. I was not there but the teachers were kind enough to put some pictures on my jump drive for me. He told me how exhausted he was when he got back home so I kindly asked him to remember this feeling when he gets home at the end of the day and I kinda stare right through him ;).

Enjoying a Popsicle

Finding a Bug

Playing Soccer

Playing "Noodle Army"