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! :)