Campbell's Birthday Party

As many know, we had to postpone Campbell's party from the original date. Poor guy got sick. He was so sad. Fortuantely we were able to reschedule it for the next weekend and most everyone could still come. We still had to pick up his cake on the original date and poor guy asked for some cake so we couldn't say no since he was already missing his party. So he proceeded to eat one bite and be done. He just did not feel good. Fortunately he was all better by Wednesday. He was still able to spend a lot of time with Grandma & Papa Gaston who had flown out to be at his party. Unfortunately, they lft the day of his party and weren't able to be there after all.

His party was a lot of fun and pretty low key which was pretty nice. We had it at the Athletic Club. They got there and played in the sand for a bit before Ryan took them to the Tennis courts for some games. They had a lot of fun! Cassie wanted to be right there in the middle of it all so I spent a lot of time keeping her out of the way of the balls.



Have you ever seen such organigation at a party?

Cassie having fun and looking cute!

A game called fireball...

Another cute one of Cassidy....

Cassie trying to join in and one Katie took of us...

Campbell before we headed back to the picnic area....

I forgot to grab the camera for a lot of the pinata. This is the one thing that was a deal breaker for Campbell. He really wanted a pinata at his party. The cutest thing was Charlie, the youngest son of our next door neighbor was one of the first to hit. He came over with his hand in his pocket holding the bat upside down hitting it! It was so cute and I missed that picture.

After the candy came out...

Opening presents (Cassie helped)....

Pizza(his favorite again) was late so we ate last...

Cake time:

The End...

I will try to get a general post up with other pictures soon!

Campbell is 4!

Wow am I behind! First, I want to get a proper birthday post in for Mr. Campbell even if I am late!

Campbell has grown so much over the last year! The most exciting change is that he was potty trained! He was quite stubborn on this one and it took a good portion of the year but when he finally took to it, he took to it. He has been working on writing his name as is shown up above! I think he's doing such a great job and he was so proud of himself when he did it for me! He has grown into such a great big brother over the last year. He has so much fun with his sister and you can tell he really loves her. Sometimes a bit too much and well he does annoy her at times but isn't that what big brothers do? I have seen him very protective of his big sister too. He doesn't like other kids messing with her and we have to let him know sometimes that it is okay. His favorite things right now is superheroes! If it has a superheroe in it or on it, he wants it. We still catch him singing a lot too. He's not as into his instruments as he used to be but still loves to sing!

One of my favorite things to do with Campbell is snuggle! He still loves to do this and is so sweet! He wants to be visited by each of us every night before he goes to sleep and there is nothing better than when he tells us he loves us! Everynigt, he likes to have daddy read a story and then mommy come in and rub his back. That is probably my favorite time with him everyday!

His birthday was on a Tuesday this year. His party was scheduled for the next Saturday but we did not want his birthday to go uncelebrated on the actual day. So, that evening, we had his favorite food(pizza) for dinner, opened family presents and had some ice cream cake. He seemed to enjoy his gifts. He played with his new toys for a little bit before going to bed. Typically in the morning he will crawl into bed with us when he gets up. The morning after his birthday, he woke up and went straight into the living room to play with his toys. A little later, he crawled into bed with us and thanked us for his gifts. He was so sweet!

I will do a post about his party with pictures in another post so this one isn't too long.

Preschool Field Trip and Harvest Dinner....

And a miscellaneous picture because I thought it was cute!

This is a little backwards but I wanted to post a couple of these pics. Last weekend the preschool had their annual auction and dinner. They had a "carnival" for the kids and Campbell had a great time and hung out mostly with his "girlfriend," Ciela. We weren't planning on bidding on anything due to budget reasons but we picked up Campbell's class project after all because no one really bid on it. A little stool. Their classroom name is the "green frogs" The frogs on the stool are their fingerprints. Its cute and Cassie LOVES it. She is constantly sitting on it. Campbell was confused when we started taking it home. He told us it needed to go back in the classroom and we couldn't take it home!

Campbell wanted a pic on it:

She was very tired here:

Tuesday, we went with the preschool on their annual trip to the Pumpkin Patch. I didn't get a ton of pictures because I forgot to charge my battery. He hung out with his "girlfriend" most of the time. She even picked out his pumpkin for him! I tried to get a picture of them together but she wasn't cooperating and then my battery died.

Campbell is in the tractor:

His "girlfriend" and her mommy:

You can see Cass at the bottom watching them wondering how she can get up there!

Trick-or-Treat!

The kids had a great time last night! After getting dressed, we walked over to our next door neighbor's house and met up with a group and had a drink before Trick-or-Treating. It was fun watching the kids get there and checking each other's costumes out. I wondered how Cassie was going to do as I remember Campbell was quite scared for the first couple years and this was probably his first year he did not show any fear. Cass was mesmerized by everything! She really got into it! Campbell was really cute when we got there. He found a Star Wars book and an adult and had her reading it too him! He could have sat there for quite some time if I hadn't moved him along.

After a little protesting from Cass, I put her in a push car and off we all went trick-or-treating. It was really cute! After stepping away from each door, Campbell would yell, "Mommy, did you see what I got?!" I would tell him yes and be sure to say Thank you and so he would turn back and say "Thank you! Happy Halloween!" He got it on his own after a while! Once done, we came home and had some dinner and continued to give out candy to the Trick-or-Treaters. They both dug this too! It was so cute! Campbell liked checking out the costumes and would tell everyone they liked it and then wanted to give out the candy. He would sit at the screen door and just wait for someone to come and got so excited when they did. If someone would walk by, he would yell, "Who wants candy!?!" He was sad when the night ended and we had to take off his costume. Taking it off, he was soaked from being so hot in it but he would not take it off. About 8:45 we turned off the lights and had about 7 pieces of over 300 left. We are one of the neighborhoods around here that everyone drives into to trick-or-treat. Campbell woke this morning and said that he wants to go to Halloween again! Here is a little clip of Campbell as the night slowed...

And the pictures: