3rd Birthday

 Cordon has been obsessed with the solar system lately so we weren't surprised when he chose to go to the Planetarium for his birthday.  It's part of the State Museum which also has a really cute discovery room for kids.  The Planetarium show was a 30 min cartoon about aliens that have to save weather on the planets.  It was really cute and well done, and he loved it.  But of course he was extremely loud and kept yelling out things like "now were in space," " look, it's Jupiter."

Eliza not to sure about the pig in the discovery room

Cordon loves pretending to drive so he spent most of his time in the discovery room playing on this truck.

 For days Cordon kept talking about his 'planet' cake that he would get on his birthday.  I thought it was because he would get to eat cake, which is a rare thing for him.  Turns out he wanted the cake because that's when we sing the happy birthday song to him.  That's probably the most excited I've ever seen him get.  Who knew having a song sung to you would be so fantastic.  As a side note, that is the first cake I have attempted to decorate.  Yup, once again it shows I have zero domestic skills, but he loved it so that's what counts. He kept asking to eat the fondant planets.  I finally said ok and he shoved one in his mouth.  After a few minutes of chewing he gave me a pathetic look and said "Mercury is gross."

Showing off the loot.  A smock from Grandma and Grandpa Thompson, a sun/moon night light, and glow in the dark planets

"helping" dad put the planets and stars on his ceiling.

Knoebles

This weekend we went to the annual party/picnic for the Union at Chris' work.  It's at an amusement park called Kneobles.  We love this place.  It's a cross between an amusement park and a State Fare.  It's as big as an amusement park but there is no charge to get it.  The rides are old school and you pay for them individually.  It's great with kids because if you need to leave early you don't feel like you've wasted money. 

 

I have never seen a ride like this.  It whips the kids around the corner really fast.  Cordon loved it. 

 

This slide was so fast.  At one point I was actually afraid that Cordon was going to fly out over the edge

Loving the train ride

Goofy Girl.  She always has a sassy face

Excited to get on the Carousel

Elizas Fang

 Eliza currently has two teeth on bottom and one on top.  It's resulted in a lot of good nick names for her; snaggle tooth, jack o lantern, hillbilly.

Yard Sales

A few years ago I posted about going to more and more yard sales. I've now become a fanatic.  Every spring and fall I leave the kids with Chris on Saturday mornings and head out.  I love looking through peoples stuff and being either amused or shocked at the prices they set for everything.  I love the random conversations I have with people. I love not knowing what I'm going to find. I always come back with at least one thing that I am very excited about.  Like the weight set I got for only $5 still has me pumped (pun intended).  But my all time favorite deal is the playground I put together for Cordon on the deck.  He spends hours out there.  Even if it's raining he can still play outside.  During a few weeks of searching yard sales I found a slide, water table and a bucket swing for a grand total of ..... *drum roll*....... $5!!!!

 For the record, I did not let him out in his diaper. He stripped down and let himself out. He likes to look over the side and talk to people when they walk by.  It's fun to see their reaction. They either talk back and are very sweet, or put their head down and walk faster. 

Why wouldn't you sit in a water table to eat an ice cream cone in your Sunday clothes?

Unclean

Last week Cordon came down with a 102 temp, was very lethargic and refused to eat anything.  Poor boy had hand food and mouth disease. If your like me and you have no idea what that is let me enlighten you; it is a virus that mostly effects kids under 10 and comes with fever, loss of appetite, blisters in the mouth hands and feet.  Cordon had the blisters in his mouth but only a mild rash on his feet.  He was pretty much comatose for 2 days but then the fever broke and his energy started to come back.  But because of the blisters in his throat he didn't eat very much.  While a child has blisters they are still pretty contagious which means it was a very long week stuck at home until his finally cleared.  The poor guy started to get cabin fever the last couple days so I had to get a bit creative with activities for him to do. 

 Whoever invented moon sand is on my enemy list.  That stuff gets EVERYWHERE even if it's used outside.  You can see that Cordon sampled some. 

 Several years ago my mother in law gave me a book with 50 things you can make with Rhodes Rolls. It's very hands on for kids which Cordon loves. This book was a life saver this week.  We made lots of critters.  This is his bunny, he was very proud of it.

Magic mud (cornstarch and water) is always hours of fun, and easier to clean then moon sand.