May Madness!!! Wonder Pets Party Highlight's

What a month!!!! We have been busy busy busy! I felt like we were always doing something. Our month was filled with gymnastics classes & performance, Birthday parties, mini vacations, work, school, family & friend visits, luncheons.

I am so ready for our upcoming Disney Cruise!! I think after this weekend things will begin to settle and I will be able to relax.

It was a busy month but definitely a FUN month.

I was able to post about Jude's party but we also celebrated Emelia's 3rd birthday.

EMELIA'S 3rd Birthday!
The Wonder Pets Party

Invitations:
I created these cute invitations www.lilbeansprout.com

Decorations:

Well we had the party at the park, so there wasn't much decorating to do. I purchased all the adorable Wonder pet's birthday supplies. We put a pop up tent for shade and I spread out a huge blanket so people could eat on the grass in the shade.

Games & Activities:

Find a animal:
I thought that it would be cute if all the kids could save an animal so I bought a small blow up pool and filled it with sand. Then I buried a bunch of animals in the sand. All the kids were able to use a shovel to save an animal. All the kids took home the animal that they saved.

Dress like a wonder pet:
I also had capes made for all the kids. I had someone sew them since I don't sew and then I made and glued all the wonder pets emblems on to the back made out of felt. It took a long time to do, but so worth it! All the kids loved the capes.
Face painting:
I decided to break out the face paints and created a board of all the animals I could paint on the kids faces.
The Cake:
I must say I think I did a lot better this time around creating the fly boat wonder pets cake. I used the sail and characters from Emelia's toy fly boat. I took chocolate covered doughnuts and dipped them in melted colored blue frosting. I also used marshmallow's for the jets in the back and colored M&Ms for the lights. Then I took the sail and the wonderpets characters from Emelia's toy fly boat it was the perfect touch to finish her cake. I was really proud of my self in the end. :) I also made cupcakes and put a wonder pets ring on top for the kids.

The Food:
The only themed food I served was celery sticks with various spreads. We did a ranch dip, Peanut butter, and cream cheese. You can't have a wonder pets party and not server celery. :)

We also rented a snow cone machine. That was so much fun and all the kids LOVED it!

Birthday Girl Apparel:
Another Darling shirt made by a fellow etsian! Here shop name is jakeandlucy. Here is the link to her shop http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=6261153 Jea was able to create the shirt exactly what I had envisioned!

I had her do an applique of Ming Ming (Emelia's Favorite character) on the front and then on the back it said "This is serious"

Goody Bags:
All the kids took home the animal they saved in the sand and there wonderpets cape.

Photography:
Once again my WONDERFUL and talented friend Jenny took pictures of the party. You can view the whole party on her website at www.jennerrose.com then go to the client area type in the password wonderpet also for Jude's party the password is onefish

Thank You cards:

FRONT

BACK

Thank you to all the friends and family that made this birthday special!!



I have a ton of pictures to upload and put up here from this month and from our trip to Hilton head. I will hopefully get some time later this week.

Emelia's 1st Gymnastics Recital

What a cute & fun experience! I was so nervous that she wouldn't do it if she all the people but it almost looked like she liked all the attention. She did such a great job!

The little boy next to her was hilarious and it was almost like it was straight out of a movie. He began running around the stage and everyone was laughing. The video is really blurry and they look like glowing bodies but Emmy is the one in the middle. Sorry I was trying to tape and watch at the same time so It is really jumpy too.

I tried to re-focus and tape more but it didn't work to well. But at the end when everyone starts clapping Emelia stops and looks at everyone like what "what are you all clapping at?" ha ha ha

Performers Entrance

After the show with Nana & PapaEmelia & Daniella

With Mommy & Daddy

Happy Birthday to the Dude!!

My little Jude the Dude turned ONE!!!

We had such an amazing day yesterday! It was supposed to rain but God heard my prayers and made such a beautiful day. It was a Seusstastic day! I had everything from fun Seuss like tree's to a Dr. Seuss combo Jumper, to fishing for goldfish. Here are a few ideas that made it a Seussical birthday.
Invitations: Well these are pretty self explanatory. I made some amazing invites with a FUN poem. www.lilbeansprout.com Decorations: I bought card board cut out of various Seuss characters from funtocollect.com One of them included a 5' cat in the hat. I also printed various verses that meant a lot to me from some of Dr. Seuss Books. I made the cutest tags that were placed on the cupcakes. I made Seuss like trees with a paint stir stick, a round styrofoam ball and a feather boa. Here are a few pictures of the decorations.

Door

The Tags

The gift Table

Food table & Cake TableREDUCE REUSE RECYCLE
I put this sign up by the recycle trash bag

Games & Activities:

Let's go fishing!
The first game my sister Natalie thought of. Fish for your own goldfish. This was a HUGE hit and all the kids had so much fun catching one, fish, two fish red fish, Blue fish.

The sign had the verse. "Look what we found in the park in the Dark. We will take him home we will name him Clark. He will live at our house he will grow and grow. Will our mother like this? We don't know."

We also had a bouncer that kept the kids busy the WHOLE time. I had a craft all set up but the kids were having so much fun on the bouncer I didn't do it. It was:

Decorate Yertle the turtle.

I printed a bunch of Yertle the turtle heads cut them out and taped them to the side of a paper bowl. Then bought foam shapes and crayons to decorate the shell of Yertle.

Then the Bounce House.... I will never get just a plain bouncer again. The kids LOVED the slide feature on the combo unit.
The Cake: This is where I got WAY to ambitious!! I tried to make Jude's smash cake. I tried to make a cat in the hat, hat. It fell over so I ended up just decorating one single cupcake.

4 HUGE costco cupcakes were sacrificed in the process.

The End result :)Jude wasn't impressed. (ha ha) :)

I bought one box of the HUGE cupcakes from Costco and then made confetti cupcakes for the kiddies.

The Food: I had a grand ideas for this as well but in the end I really didn't want to do themed food. I was going to make green deviled eggs and ham wrapped in cantaloupe. I was going to have rainbow colored goldfish for the kiddies to snack on, Burgers and fries. We did burgers and chips.

The food was AMAZING thanks to my AWESOME dad! Thank you so much!!! we had:
Curly Hot dogs (cut them into fours length wise and boil them till they curl)
Hamburgers
Potato Salad
Cabbage and raman salad (super yummy thanks Jenny for the recipe)
Cut fruit
String cheese,
Chips
6 layer dip
Artichoke Parmesan dip

Birthday Boy's Apparel: Yeah I know only I would think of this.

I had his shirt and bibs made on etsy. I requested a custom listing and got a few bids then choose the one that I liked best. I had a shirt made and two bibs. One for Lunch time and one for Cake time.

Then I bought a cat in the hat shirt for after his cake since I knew he would be a mess.

Here are pictures of his shirts and bibs:Birthday Shirt & Cake Bib Made by Cute as a Button Designs
http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=5692314

Lunch Time Bib made by Karens Monsters
http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=5288809

You can get this shirt anywhere that sells Dr. Seuss Shirts. I got Jude's on Ebay.

Goody Bags: Well all the kids took home there fish that they caught, with a baggy of fish food and water conditioner and one of Dr. Seuss's classic books with a Dr Seuss Book mark. They had a bunch of books to choose from and bookmarks. I bought them on ebay. All the books were brand new and I paid roughly $2.50 for each. Not too bad.

Then the last two Items that made this SUCH an Amazing Birthday was

FRIENDS and One Happy Birthday Boy who took a 20 minute snooze in his high chair while everyone played.

Oh and to top it all off Jude took his first steps last night after he opened up his gifts.

Actual Birthday photo's to come. My good friend Jenny who is a photographer was so nice and took pictures of this HUGE milestone. Thank you Jenny I can't wait to see pictures.
http://www.jennerrose.com/ if you go to the client area and type in onefish as the password you can see pictures from the day.

WONDER PET'S BIRTHDAY to follow. :)

Spring fling

Last weekend we took the kids and my niece Daniella (who Emelia LOVES) to our communities Spring Fling event. Emelia had fun gathering eggs, riding a pony, and playing on the giant inflatable courses. Jude had fun crawling through the grass and meeting Mr & Mrs Bunny. (Emelia would't have anything to do with them) Now Emelia just keeps saying "I wanna pick the eggs and eat the cadies!" Oh and she insisted on wearing the hat.... not sure why.

So here are a few pictures from the day.

Celebrating the Earth Craft

WHAT A GREAT WAY TO CELEBRATE EARTH DAY. Earth day is April 22nd so we decided to make earth day shirts with friends here at our house. This is a great craft to do on a warm sunny day outside. :)

What you need:

1. A tee shirt (any color we choose white)
   
2. Green Fabric Paint
3. Brown Fabric paint
4. a piece of card board
5. Paint brush
6. and a happy Kiddo!
   

First take the card board and place it inside your shirt
Using the brown paint, make a tree trunk on your child's shirt Let it dry.
Then take the green paint and paint your child's hand and press it at the top to make the top of the tree. You can do more than one hand or just use the same hand and make multiple tree tops. One mommy made grass at the bottom of the tree trunk with her son's fingers. And have fun!!


***DON'T FORGET TO HAVE YOUR KIDDOS WEAR THERE SHIRTS ON EARTH DAY APRIL 22nd***

Lost!

I knew it would happen one day, but I didn't know when. My laptop fell to the floor and the hard drive broke. Leaving me with devistation of lost work. I had about 20 plus card templates that I worked long and hard on. I had not backed up in a month!! All my pictures of the kids from February were lost as well. The last time I backed up my hard drive was right after Valentines day. Let's just say I Learned my lesson. This has also forced me to start working from the mac which is what I needed to do. I can try to recover the data for a large fee $500.00 and up. So I have to just roll with the punches and move on. I cried a few times but I think I will live. :)

Along with loosing all of my data I lost all my contacts (all of you). So if you are reading this blog, I would LOVE if you emailed me your email address' You can send it to any of my emails.

amyiwalker@cox.net or amy@lilbeansprout.com

Thank you!!!

Things are moving along,

Well things have been trucking along here at the walker house hold. Emelia is talking so much now and says things everyday that make me laugh. Her current favorite show is Dora. She wants it playing all the time. A couple of weeks ago she was playing with her animals and she starts saying Uno, dos, tres, quatro, all the way to ocho! Holy cow did my kid just count to 8 in spanish! Yup all from Dora. It amazes me at how much she picks up. Jarrod took her to Seaworld yesterday (some daddy and daughter time) well when they got there the first thing they did was see the Shamu show. When the show ended Jarrod looked at Emelia and asked her "ok, Emelia what do you want to do next" her response was "let me see the map" she pointed to the horses and said "I want to see the horses" Last week Jude had roseola, so I told Emelia that Jude was sick. She told me "we take him to doctor" "check the ears" now when anyone needs to go to the doctor she says we need to check there ears.

Jude is so cute! He hasn't started walking yet but wants to. I see him holding on to the side of his toys or the sofa and him looking out into the room kinda contimplating should I do it? He has walked with the hand held push car it is funny because it goes faster than his feet move. If Jarrod and I sit across form eachother on the floor and try to get him to walk to each of us he just laughs and thinks it is the funniest thing ever. He has such a great laugh.

Here are pictures from the last couple weeks.This is what Emelia learned from Yo Gabba Gabba (this is her funny face)
Emelia in one of her onsambles.

Here is a video of Jude dancing with Elmo.