Friday, October 16, 2009

Sick Day

Poor Ben somehow caught the flu. He looked so darn pathetic I had to take a picture. He spent about 24 hours with the flu bug - poor thing. He has a "barf bowl" that we were very thankful for on several occasions. Thankfully he was backed to his usual energetic self pretty quickly. Summer felt her poor brothers pain and her way of being supportive was having her own little bowl.....and of course she needed at least one of her best buddies with her. This time it was her parrot. Thankfully, she didn't catch Ben's flu bug!

Last Day of Preschool!!!

June 2009 - Ben's last day of preschool - ever! He is going to miss his most favorite teacher in the world: Miss Krista. Here is a picture of Ben and his beloved Miss Krista: And here is a picture of one of the Aide's in his classroom: Miss Brenda. We forgot to get a picture of Miss Marissa but he loved both and had a blast with them. Check out Ben's cool sunglasses!
Here is Miss Kirsten - Ben always loves to remind her that she has yellow hair, "just like Summer".

Wednesday, October 14, 2009

Cupcakes!

We took some cupcakes to Ben's preschool class - to continue the birthday celebrations. They are all so cute! I love how they are sitting around "the birthday king" while he blows out his candle.

The cupcakes were a hit!

Happy Birthday Big FIVE Year Old!!

I can't believe Ben is FIVE years old! Where does the time go? He was such a snuggley baby and he still loves to snuggle. He loves his bike and can ride it without training wheels. He even knows how to pop a wheelie and ride off the curbs. He loves the beach and the park and is super good on the monkey bars. He has such a cute sense of humor and keeps us laughing. We love you Ben!!

Ben celebrated is 5th birthday at Smallwood Park in Costa Mesa, CA. It's right near our home. We took a picture of him with his cake (that I bought at Costco) before the party...before it got mucked up by lots of little hands. :-)
Here's Ben with one of his best buddies, Trevor.
Looks like everyone is enjoying the chocolate cake...and who wouldn't, right??

Summer thought it was cool to wear her batman mask as much as possible....except when eating cake because that is serious business for her.
What a fun day! Ben loves sleeping in his little tent in his bedroom. He fell asleep while playing with his new toy. So cute!

Our Day at Disneyland!!!

We took the kids to Disneyland for Ben's birthday. He got in free because it was his birthday and Summer was free because she was under three so it was a great deal for a family of 4!

We spent alot of time at Frontierland. Brian took Ben on Thunder Mountain, for his first ride in the park! Wow!! His eyes were as big as saucers when he got off. Ben decided the big scary rides were better for the adults...or when he gets bigger!

We played on Tom Sawyers Island for a long time. The kids loved exploring all of the caves.
There are several fun bridges to cross and it's just fun to run around and check everything out.

I think Brian had as much fun as the kids on Tom Sawyer Island!


Summer didn't want to get anywhere near any of the characters walking around but Ben loved all of them!

Fantasy Land

Fun Times on the Carousel:

Bigger and better than the one at South Coast Plaza!
The Flying Dumbo ride was a definite hit!

The kids were pretty good about waiting in line...well, Ben was awesome about waiting in line. Summer, on the other hand, could only last about 10 minutes. So that kind of limited some of the rides we went on. Thankfully, it wasn't super crowded on the rides we wanted to go on.


Fun on the teacup.

Toon Town at Disney

Summer took a little nap in her stroller so while Brian relaxed with Summer Ben and I whooped it up at Toon Town! He loved this car:
And we spent ALOT of time going in and out of Mickey's house. It was really cute!

Happy Birthday to the birthday boy! He has a button on his shirt (given to him by Disney) that says, "Happy Birthday Ben" on it. So all day long people wished him a happy birthday. He thought that was sooo cool.

Awww...so cute!

We also spent alot of time at Chip & Dale's treehouse.