2-23-12: The Party Continues!

So the Party Continues!  Thursday morning, everyone woke up and got moving around.  I headed to work and Melinda took Ava, Kaitlyn & Andrew to the zoo and museum.  Alyssa headed to daycare as 4 kids would have been a bit much and exceeded Melinda's carseat limit! :)  Here the girls were playing before Alyssa headed to her class...

Later that evening, we all headed over to Chuck E Cheese for a whirlwind of a birthday party.   Andrew had been asking for a birthday party there for almost a year and much to my chagrin, I gave in to our birthday boys wishes! :)  There were about 20 friends + a few siblings that came.  It was BUSY but soooo much fun!!!

Aunt Melinda keeping Ava entertained...

Our Birthday Boy getting his pizza taken care of ;o)

Andrew, Jacob, Selah, Kaitlyn, Avery and a few other friends...

I tried to snap a picture of Miriam and Andrew together.  Miriam is Andrew's girlfriend from daycare but she moved to another school and now they are going through the typical 5 year old boy/girl stage :)

Miriam and Aveni

 

Pam, Britni and families

The Birthday Boy getting his groove on while onstage with Chuck E Cheese

Hunter Mitchell

The Birthday King!

He told me he was "tucking his ears in" ... LOL! :)

Alyssa riding around on her Daddy's shoulders!

Kaitlyn talking with Chuck E Cheese

Toward the end, Andrew & I got into the Ticket Blaster together.  It was so much fun and we racked up on lots of tickets!! What a crazy, fun & busy night!

Andrew's 5th Birthday - A Day of Festivities!

In typical Davlin family tradition, we had a fun filled day for Andrew on 2/22/12.  He woke up to birthday blueberry muffins :)

And then began the present opening time.  He wanted Zhu Zhu pet items and so he received several of those....

And his Monster Truck shirt that he picked out a few weeks ago that I saved for his birthday present:

Of course, baby sister wanted to get in on the action :)

His Zhu Zhu pet center that he also picked out a few weeks ago and that I set back for him:

One of his MAJOR birthday presents was his motorized truck like his Daddy's old truck.  At first he was SPEECHLESS and then got super excited about his "new wheels" :)

 

Going "mudding" in the backyard...

Driving his baby sister around... she LOVES to work the radio - it's really a working stereo!  It is so funny to watch him drive her around...she cracks up the whole time which gets him cracking up.  They are such a joy to watch! :)

A little later, Andrew's best friend, Matthew came over for a "jammie party" with his sister Meghan.  They had so much fun driving and riding around together!

After riding around and playing inside for a bit, Keren & I took all 4 kids to Chick-fil-a for lunch in their jammies :)  They had a blast running around and playing.  Then we parted ways and headed home and waited for Melinda to arrive from San Antonio with Kaitlyn & Ava.  The kids all have so much fun together and after dinner we had to celebrate with a yummy super chocolatey birthday cake :)

He wasn't a fan of the "stinky smoke" after blowing out his candles:

What birthday would be complete without licking the cake ribbon clean of icing! :)

After we got the kids in jammies, they played for a bit.  Ava & Alyssa had fun playing together.  Ava running while Alyssa crawled after her...

David got piled up with kiddos.  I had bought all the kids coordinating pajamas at Christmas time but with all the winter sickies and travels, we weren't able to get them together over the Holidays.  But we got 3/4 of them matching and had to take a pic! :)

David with his 2 kiddos... happy as can be! :)

02-22-12: Andrew's 5th Birthday

On 02/22/12, our baby boy turned 5 years old!!!! It's so hard to believe that he is 5. That's five. F-I-V-E.... Waaaah!! How can time being passing so quickly!?!?! It seems like we just brought him home from the hospital and in just about 6 months he will be starting kindergarten. Oh my!!

Andrew - you are so super smart and funny. You have the biggest heart out of anyone - maybe even bigger than your Daddy's and that's pretty hard to beat!! You have conversations as if you are an adult and we consciously have to remember that you are ONLY five years old sometimes. You get so tickled sometimes and you get us laughing so hard because when you laugh - the whole room is lighter. You are so creative in building and creating stuff - even making up complex sounding words to describe things. You are extremely innovative and love to use your imagination. We love you more than words can describe. I love you, my sweet "Monkey". You are my heart and I love you bigger than the moon and the stars and the oceans and the universe. Even bigger than the "studyverse" - and you assure me that is a lot! :)

Sweet Kiddo Pics

Here is Andrew testing out his new puppy pillow/sleeping bag combo I found on sale at Wal-Mart. He & Alyssa both got one and they love them! Best buys!! :)

I caught Alyssa standing RIGHT in front of the tv again because she gets soooo excited over her Mickey Mouse Clubhouse... I just had to sneak a picture for the memories... :)