four chaps & a chickie: Megersa's birthday weekend!

Sunday, September 9, 2012

Megersa's birthday weekend!

Megersa turned 3 on Sept 3.

His golden birthday.
Both he and Cale had their golden birthdays early in life. When researching how to celebrate, there weren't many good ideas - gold balloons, gold candy, "gold" food. I suppose I could have attempted some of them. But I didn't. Sa' lave.

We did celebrate with some fun activities though!! :)
1st we took our family to a splash park.
The babies were tenatively initially, but they soon got in on the fun.

Megersa and Cale took off as soon as we entered the gate. We saw flashes of them here and there as they ran through the spouts and made their way down the slide...but there wasn't much stopping them.

When we do make our way out in public as a full family I like to have some sort of "all boys" pic.

This was the best we could get:

Oh well! :) At least they're all actually in the picture!
I brought sandwiches, fruit and crackers for dinner and managed to get them to slow down enough to eat and drink. Overall I think it was less than 2 hours that we were there before they turned the water off without warning... Cale was very displeased, but Tim and I were sorta glad. It had actually cooled down considerably and storm clouds lurked above us, so we called it a night...changed into jammies and made our way back home. I think it's safe to say they all had a blast. ;)
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On Megersa's actual birthday we did presents throughout the day:
Marker & coloring book, Thomas book w/ tiny trains and a shaking race car from Nana & Pop-Pop.
Big toy helicopter, complete with revolving propellors and noisy buttons from Mommy & Daddy.
A card with money from Poppy & Niani (so we still have yet to get anything with it).
and M's favorite - a 4 wheeler toy with a riding man on top - that rolls on it's own and plays a funky tune from Grammie. (this was the hit for all the kids!)

After naptime we packed up the fellas and went to a local park. It was really a great park that had a gated side that geared more toward younger children. We all started there then made our way over to the "big kids side." M loves to climb, so this was a great outlet for him.

I thought it would be fun to have them go to the basketball court and 'shoot some hoops' but that just ended in screaming and tears as they fought over the ball. ...whoops.

Megersa chose to eat at Cici's for dinner (it's an all-you-can-eat-pizza-buffet)... Tim and I were snapping pics of the kiddos and someone asked if we wanted a family pic. She only took one, so it's not the best...but it usually takes quite a few shots to get a good pic of 6 people.