The easter parade

Heaven forbid you should mention Christmas in school, but they were all over Easter here. I don't understand that? Anyway, they had an egg hunt, Easter Party and Easter "parade" all at school. Against all the children's will, they were made to partner up and march about the school grounds :) Schmoo looked at me as he was marching by and asked me to make sure that this never happened again!

Party at Chuck E Cheese

Schmoo's wish all year long (since his 4th bday) was to have his party at Chuck E Cheese. It's nice when wishes are this simple to fulfill :)

Since he is majorly obsessed with Super Mario Bros, we made Toad Cupcakes.


Despite his wish for the party, he was very traumatized by Chuck E Cheese when he was a toddler. When I saw this look on his face, I wondered if we were headed for a meltdown...


It turns out that he really was happy, but just like my dear husband, you can't tell by the look on his face if he's happy, sad, excited, nervous or whatever.



Here is the whole group. We met right after school and it was so nice to let the kids run a muck without worrying too much about cleaning or cooking or ahem, direct supervision :)


Here's some pics of the kids that I could actually chase down with the camera.









And here's proof that intense therapy can get you over an intense fear of guys dressed up like rodents.


He had been waiting FOREVER for his shot at the "ticket blaster". They put the birthday kids in a little wind tunnel and let them try to catch tickets to trade in for prizes. It was intense!








We all had such a great time! We'd do it all again...but probably won't have the chance. Next year's birthday is slated to be a "BOYS only speed racer" party. Whatever that means :)

Schmoo turns 5!

I can't believe my little schmoo baby turned 5!

Here's his cute little face on the day he was born :)


And here are some cute awkward opening presents smiles.




So happy with the balloons!


My cute guys at Red Robin. We let the bday boy choose...at first he said Mcdonalds...but then changed his mind, thank heavens! He wouldn't eat the sundae because he won't touch whipped cream or chocolate syrup. Weird kid, I know!


Looking smug with some bday money he got in a card. He wouldn't let go it for a looonng time!



Cute look after reading a card with a surprise in it :)



Making a wish on the birthday cupcakes delivered by our upstairs friends! (so glad they brought them since he didn't eat his restaurant sundae and I didn't make a cake!)


Making sure that we know which one he wanted!

A much needed break!

As usual, I go to Texas and take about 3 pictures. We did all kinds of fun stuff but took no pictures. Here are the few pics I managed...

Mmmm....Tacos!

The taco combinations that this kid comes up with never cease to amaze me. Always has to be a corn tortilla and salsa then whatever else. Most recently...corn tortilla, salsa, raw carrots and chipotle pork chop. Just don't give him a piece of bread.

Bowling

We've never ever been bowling together so we figured it would be an appropriate President's Day activity. Schmoo loves bowling on the Wii, so it was time to show him how it is in real life. He was sorely dissapointed that he didn't get any strikes but he says he's willing to give it another try.

Checking out the computer scorekeeping



Our very fashionable shoe trio. I called ahead to make sure they carried size 15 for my honey.

They didn't have those metal ramp thingies, so the best he could do was just to chuck the ball at the lane. This pic makes it look like we were the only ones there but there were quite a few families livin it up at 10am on a Monday morning :)

Honey tried to help him roll it a few times...waiting for the results.

How cute is my bowler!

The Camden Aquarium

Some kind-of-nice, but very strange people (HI SARA!) invited us to go with them to the Camden aquarium last week. They have an amazing season pass that allows for guests and we were happy to that we got to go with them and, bonus, for free! It was the best aquarium I've ever been to!

Views of the Delaware River and Philadelphia from outside the Aquarium




Walking through the shark tunnel

HIPPOS! Up close and personal! One of the best parts!

There were many touch tanks...here, touch a star :)

Why can't he smile normal?!

Stingray touch tank. Too bad no one wanted to touch them!

Penguins and more abnormal smiles :S

Lots of great viewing areas.

There were so many more things I didn't take pics of because I was too interested in what I was seeing. It was a great outing!