Josh opening "just one, pleeease?!" in the morning, before the party...
Pheww-I think he likes it!
His Lego cake with all his favorite characters
The favor bags with a mini-lego set inside
Josh decorated the mantel for the party
One of the favorite party games: guess how many legos are in the jar...who'd think?
First birthday gift all assembled-with a little help from big brother
More party decor
The chopstick game: how many legos can you get into your dish in 2 minutes? It was much harder than we thought!
Just stuck this one in cuz I liked it...;)
Little sisters!
Nana and Oma-often dangerous when they get together! ;)
Gaga and Pop-pop
Lego Road Rally: build your car and see who's makes it to the bottom the fastest...
Spaghetti Time...Nana and Claire
Pop-pop found himself at the kids' table...;)
Claire and her mommy
Present time! Pop-pop and Oma sure know how to pick birthday cards! ;)
Ben's gift to Josh...and notice he's not wasting any time posing-let's get this baby out of the box!
Silly Grace in her cupcake dress
Josh and Esther and John
A happy boy posing with his Nana and Gaga
Another favorite
Opening his skateboard...(God help us!)
Aunt Ali giving him a sticker for his skateboard
Getting right to building...
Ben and cousins testing out Josh's new glow-in-the-dark nerf gun...here they are hiding out in the laundry room
Gracie spotted the cake
So did Mark...
Gracie and her Uncle Ta watching Dora
Patrick and his Mom
Gracie and Claire sharing
Mom's turn to open a present
Posing with the birthday boy
At the end of the party, Josh told me a couple of times that it was "the BEST birthday ever!!!" I'm calling that a success...Thanks so much for all your help, guys! And especially to Aunt 'Nise for helping set up and playing photographer!
Now for the "friend" party...with 8 boys?
The picture of Josh holding up the big lego set ranks up there with the one from Christmas when he got the Indiana Jones Lego Wii game. My favorite pic in this series is the one of Gracie with Uncle Ta.
ReplyDeletethis is awesome Wendy....so cool too look back on! And you are an awesome mom! :)
ReplyDeleteThere is never any doubt about whether or not Josh likes a present! Loved all the pix. Y'all are so great! Can't wait to see you! Xo' GAS
ReplyDeleteWen- I love the "feet pic" at the top pf the page. Let me guess...Ben's are the ones with the jeans perfectly at the same length, and josh's are the patched ones with the bottoms all askew?
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