Todd's Tatler: March 2014

Celebrating Caleb

5:42 PM by Amanda

How does one celebrate the 5 glorious and challenging years of your child?

Birthday donuts, helium balloons, going bowling and playing arcade games, opening presents....

(Our gifts to Caleb were mostly on the practical side - aka, not particularly photo worthy. We left the fun and frivolous to his fantastic grandparents!)

Then we ate out at...Subway (bet you didn't know that was his favorite restaurant!).

The next day was party day with friends!

Caleb asked for a

Rescue Bot!

themed birthday party.

We played "douse the house" with water shaped bean bags

and had a bucket brigade race for Heatwave, the fire truck.

Then keep the balloon up, duck duck goose, and "simon says."

After a lunch of pizza and opening presents,

there was cake and ice cream for everyone.
Victoria really approved of that cupcake!

Our big guy had a great day. Thanks for the love everyone!

Somehow, it's been 5 years already!

5:16 PM by Amanda

Newborn Caleb

1 year old Caleb

2 year old Caleb

3 year old Caleb

4 year old Caleb

Current Caleb!

St. Patrick's Day

10:35 PM by Amanda

Pancakes with green tinted cream cheese topping.

Caleb thoroughly enjoyed seeing so much of his favorite color!

Caleb did his Hulk impression

while the girls chatted and patiently waited to start the fun.

You see, the night before St. Patrick's Day, a little leprechaun came to visit our home....
Starting the scavenger hunt:

They figured out the party blowers pretty quickly!

Green blocks are fun!

Doing a jig of their own
(Maddie really enjoyed the music!)

Working some magic!

All the clues put together spelled "Happy St. Patrick's Day"
Caleb showed off by identifying each letter for the girls again.
Unfortunately, they weren't impressed.

The clues led to leprechaun portions of pistachio pudding.

Maddie and Victoria had their finger nails painted
silver with green sparkles...

...while Caleb colored a picture.

Then they all did some rainbow paintings!
(I think this was Victoria's favorite part.)

After Victoria went home, we had a lunch

of pureed spinach alfredo over leprechaun bow ties
while watching The Secret of Kells.

And for a touch of authenticity, we had fish and colcannon for dinner.

That...didn't go over as well with the kids.

Stay tuned for Caleb's birthday post!

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