Holy Cake and Ice Cream Batman!!!

4 year olds get four spoons

His gift from us, Iron Man the "good robot"

first cake

popping balloons to get the candy inside 

Somehow Jodie was able see our old blog on her google reader, except for the pictures and most of the videos. So I copied and pasted every thing into a word document and saved it to our external hard drive! This is THE BEST news!!! Such a relief!

Now I just have to get this blog going. I'll start with Thing 1 turning 4. He picked out Cookie Crisp for his birthday breakfast and got four spoons because he was turning 4. He requested Belgian Waffles for dinner so he helped me make those. Real healthy around here lately. Now that parties are over we'll be getting back on track.

We had 2 birthdays for him. I had realized after I sent out the invitations that we invited even MORE people to Magooly's party than Bean's. So I called all the Fam and asked them to come the next day. The awesome family they are they agreed with no hard feelings.

So Batman Birthday party #1 we ended up having 4 kids short (8 people short including their parents). That was sad but okay, they were sick and the other family never received their invite.   The party guests arrived wearing their super hero costumes ready to save the day from The Riddler who had stolen all their loot bags! We went on a wild chase picking up clues to the stolen goods where abouts as we went. In the end justice won, candy was eaten, bubbles where blown, and my floor was cleaned.
We watched a little bit of the old Adam West Batman Movie while we ate our Banana flavored birthday cake. I think the parents enjoyed the movie a little more than the kids. Except maybe for L. He was pretty into it. :)
Then the next day we had the family over. Good thing we split the party up! I'll have to think of a different place to have it next year than our house. Maybe we'll go bowling.
After the family party we headed over to Santa's Christmas Story Book Village (or whatever it's called).    Thing 2 had been so cranky all day that he passed out as soon as his hiney hit his car seat.   He slept through half of it until the sound of the toy trains woke him. Then he would have nothing to do with Santa. As for Ben, he couldn't get enough of him. I think he almost made it to the naughty list.
We got our family picture taken again in front of the Church model. And Beanie was wearing the same jacket Magooly was in our first picture. He is about the same age too. It will be a fun tradition to keep going, getting our picture taken there and going. It reminds me of the Enchanted Forest a little.
Thing 1 fell asleep on the way home and Thing 2 was as we pulled into the driveway. It was only 6:30. They were beat. So much excitement in the past week and with me letting them stay up late the last couple nights while I got party stuff ready, it just caught up with them.

I'm so in love with my Magooly right now. I can't believe he's 4! I remember being 4! He's going to start remembering things now.  Like waking up in the middle of the night before his 4th birthday party to find everyone else awake blowing up balloons and sticking candy in them and making cake.
He makes me laugh every day with the sweet things he says. He's such a good big brother and just loves kids and is a good friend.  He's really into building stuff right now. I love it when he brings me his legos and says that he made me something. I love the silly faces he draws. He's such a good little artist and pays attention to details you wouldn't think a four year old would notice, like adding nostrils and teeth to his faces.  I love the silly songs he makes up. I love how he always wants to give his brother a hug and a kiss goodnight. Thank you Magooly for making me a mommy. I love you SOOOOO much!

Jeff went as the Green Hornet to the first party.

I find Monkey McBean standing like this a lot lately, with his hands behind his back and his big belly sticking out. He's so dang cute!

Cake number 2, both Banana filling and frosting (banana extract and frosting)

Santa's Christmas Story Book Village

"So what's in the sack Santa?"

Out of all of the displays I think I like this one the best.

The Three Amigos 

He was being a stinker and would not let us take his picture

I had to tickle him to get him to smile.

This one's for Jeff

They had so many beautiful model Victorian Houses, love those!

Thing 1 and Thing 2!

Finally woke up and loved looking at the trains.

Our traditional family photo

The X.

Magooly has a thing for Nut Crackers this year. He knocked one of these over trying to open it's mouth after I told him a million times not to touch.

He hates peppermint, yet he asked Santa for another one when his broke.