Happy Birthday Marcus!
Actually his birthday is tomorrow, but yesterday we had his party. It was a success! I made fruit and cheese skewers, a veggie platter and bought a bunch of sushi rolls and inari-zushi. There was a good show of people and everybody looked like they enjoyed themselves. Marcus of course had a couple of meltdowns but I expected that because it's totally overwhelming for him to have so many people in his face all day. The first attempt at doing cake he was screaming and crying because he wanted to go play so I just cut one of the cakes and left the other one for when he was in the mood for pictures and we sang happy birthday then. The cakes were really cute, too!
Snacks.
..and my awesome Halloween shirt that I got my mom to bring :o)
Overall it went really well. It was great to see all the families out and the kids all playing together. Marcus totally wore himself out and less than 5 minutes after leaving he was passed out in his stroller.
Today the plan was to go to the local Halloween parade and possibly walk in it, but we got rained out so instead we decided to give Marcus his birthday present a day early so he's have something to keep him occupied indoors. We got him a marble run and WHAT AN AWESOME PRESENT I AM A GENIUS. Haha, he played with it for like 2 hours straight.
We only assembled one of the small runs and actually it goes up to 59 pieces so I think we're going to get a lot of mileage out of this toy.
Oh yeah, I forced him to wear the lion costume. I'm a terrible person because the first 5 minutes after putting it on him he was screaming and crying and trying to take it off and I was laughing sooooo hard because it was SUCH an over-reaction. Then I pointed out to him that he had a tail (like our cats!) and suddenly he was ok with the suit. Weirdo. Anyway he looked adorable walking around in it... wish I could get him to wear the mane but there's pretty much no chance of that. I did a good job though so here's the finished product. Please tell me it looks awesome so that all my hard work is justified :oP
rawr!
And since this post is already photo-heavy here's one more of Marcus the lion.
Snacks.
..and my awesome Halloween shirt that I got my mom to bring :o)
Overall it went really well. It was great to see all the families out and the kids all playing together. Marcus totally wore himself out and less than 5 minutes after leaving he was passed out in his stroller.
Today the plan was to go to the local Halloween parade and possibly walk in it, but we got rained out so instead we decided to give Marcus his birthday present a day early so he's have something to keep him occupied indoors. We got him a marble run and WHAT AN AWESOME PRESENT I AM A GENIUS. Haha, he played with it for like 2 hours straight.
We only assembled one of the small runs and actually it goes up to 59 pieces so I think we're going to get a lot of mileage out of this toy.
Oh yeah, I forced him to wear the lion costume. I'm a terrible person because the first 5 minutes after putting it on him he was screaming and crying and trying to take it off and I was laughing sooooo hard because it was SUCH an over-reaction. Then I pointed out to him that he had a tail (like our cats!) and suddenly he was ok with the suit. Weirdo. Anyway he looked adorable walking around in it... wish I could get him to wear the mane but there's pretty much no chance of that. I did a good job though so here's the finished product. Please tell me it looks awesome so that all my hard work is justified :oP
rawr!
And since this post is already photo-heavy here's one more of Marcus the lion.