Party Hearty...And Heartier

Saturday was a two party day for Easton. What fun.

In the morning we went to Rachel and Wee Laddie's combo birthday party at a really cool indoor amusement park. We actually wanted to take Easton there on his birthday (instead of the bounce place we went to) but the indoor amusement park is closed on Wednesdays. We were very happy to hear that Rachel and Wee Laddie would be celebrating there. Their birthdays are back on Christmas (Rachel) and New Year's Eve (Wee Laddie) so they waited to have their parties as you can probably understand. Daddy and Dalton decided to stay home, with another party the four of us would be attending later in the day we wanted to make sure D could get adequate rest and such. It was a good thing.

Easton and I had fun. He had a blast, actually. All sorts of cool things to do there:

A carousel...


Tea cups (he rode by himself which made me both sad and proud)...


A little train ride...


Spider stomp...


The indoor ferris wheel which he was soooooo excited to ride...


I got to go too...


And let's zoom in on my new snaggletooth...


See how he's inside yet outside up at the top here?


Swings... (blurry but I still think he's cute because it's just a real, rather than posed, smile):


"The Whip" which you might guess why it's named from his position as he makes the corner there.

He was so cute on that thing. He rode it once. Then wanted to go again so they didn't make him get off. After the second time was over I saw the attendant ask him if he wanted to go again, he said, "No I want to do some-ping else with my mom" so she helped him with his buckle. I love to see him talk to other adults without me right there. That doesn't happen often as I'm so often with him.

He had fun with the guests of honor in the ball pit. This is after Rachel's dad "sacked" him. (That's his sleeve in the corner). I just love E's gentle smile here. He's got such a sparkle, doesn't he?


Trying to figure out how to make this thing go. You should have seen us with him on my lap on the contraption.


One of those barrelly hamster wheel kind of things...


We shared a piece of pizza and he wolfed down some cake. Rachel's dad offered him a bite off his spork but then pulled the wedding cake move and booped it on his nose instead. I think that kind of embarassed him and he didn't trust her dad the next time he tried to offer a bite. It's kind of cute to see his little emotions like that. The rest of us thought it was funny--too bad he didn't feel exactly the same way (he is soooo much like me that way). Could've been a fun food fight, though! :)

Anyway, it got time for me to feed Dalton so we headed back home, way before Easton was ready. Still, it was a fun time.

Later that afternoon was Baby John's party. It was at his house with his extended family. We were really the only "friends" there so we were, of course, honored to be invited to the family affair. They catered barbeque from my favorite BBQ place in town and we had a great time watching the 3 boys play and practice sharing and such. At one point Easton "reminded" Baby John to "Be nice." to Dalton. He's getting a little bossy (again, just like his mama). We'll need to work on that. We're having to work on manners again too, he used to be so polite. I'm hoping it's just part of this phase.

I didn't whip out the camera there, I totally stole these pictures from Krista's account. :) They were sooooo sweet and accomodating and made Easton macaroni and cheese:

When John the dad asked Easton what he wanted to drink Easton said, "Um, Mom, what should I want?" Hee hee!

They even let Easton stick his finger in the icing. In fact, they insisted he take part...


Enjoying their cake:


Other pics...






We called it a night before it got too late for the boys. Easton played with the party blowers on the way home. He made himself into a triceratops (which I loved that he came up with this on his own):


And the standard "blowers in ears" pose:

(By the way, I'm noticing how his chest clip isn't in the right place. Big oopsies!)

Here's just a few of Dalton thrown in as this post was overloaded with Easton pics:




Playing with the kitty...


Marching to the beat of a different drummer, or to an invisible drummer...I have no clue what he's doing here, actually...


And that wraps up Saturday. We don't know anyone in town with any birthdays for quite some time. Way to get 3 out of the way at once. He went to two parties in one day back in July too. Mr. Popular, that one. Shyeah.