BBQ with Friends

Two Friday's ago our friends the Colby's came over for dinner. We bbq'd hamburgers. First burgers of the season. They were sooo good and the boys played so well together. I brought out the tee-ball set and Christopher just had fun retrieving the ball while Leo hit it.

The hardest was teaching Christopher to stay back. Behind Leo so he didn't get hit. So we'd tell him to stand under the tree. It worked. Love this photo of him.

Christopher makes a great golden retriever :)

The man and the grill.

Party on the farm!

Saturday we had a friends birthday party for their son. One of the many things that he and Christopher share is their total obsession with tractors. The entire theme of the party was green and yellow for the John Deere colors. The entire party was inside a barn, which was nice since it was freezing and so windy outside.

She had a bunch of craft stations for the kids. Christopher enjoyed the coloring books (and daddy as well)

They even had a jumpy house inside the barn.

Christopher went in for a bit, but he was the smallest kid in it and got out after a few minutes.

The cake and cupcakes

So cute

The grill master

Christopher discovered the cupcakes

and it took a bit of distraction to get him away....

And back to the coloring :)

And she had play swords for the kids. He loved it. Was very good with it. We now have one at home :)

And then it was time for the best part of the day. The tractor rides had been going all day, but there were a lot of kids and it was too windy to wait outside with christopher. Eventually David got them a solo ride...

David said that Christopher was just in awe... loved it

I love this one, he's waving at me :)

He did great

Video of them in the tractor. I admit, it's a boring video of a tractor going around. But I knew Christopher was in it so I thought it was cute.

Then he discovered the hula hoops...

After cupcakes, which Christopher had 2 bites of then was done... David asked him "you ready to go back home and take a nap?" Christopher "Yes"

So off we went, back into the car. Christopher was asleep within a few minutes

Birthday Parties!

Sunday we drove up to Redwood City for a friend's daughter's 5th birthday party. Christopher had so much fun. So many of our friends from the Bay Area now have kids it's such a different experience.

Of the kids that were participating in the activities, Christopher was the youngest (this is besides the babies under one). So it was interesting to see him interacting with the other older kids.

Story time:

The birthday girl

He loved playing with the trains (duh!)

And the helicopter

Participating with the other kids...

So then they decided it would be fun to play a game of hot potato with the pink dolphin (they said it's a dolphin). They would play music, and the kids would pass the dolphin around the circle. Whoever was holding it when the music stopped, was out. But they HAD to pass it...

Christopher really liked the dolphin

But he did as he was asked and sat in the circle with Aiden right next to him

And waited patiently... (look at his fingers)

And they started

So obviously, the two youngest didn't quite get it. Aiden wanted to hold on to it, so Asha tried to go around him by tossing it to Christopher. However, how Christopher thought you had to "throw" it to the next person, which he kept doing right into their head. Lovely.... But you can tell my his smile, he loved it.

And then back to the trains

They had a bell that they'd let the birthday girl ring to bring the kids together. Christopher would go running from where ever he was. Then... he found the bell...

Then he found this little toy to play on...

He loved it

Then they blew up a jumpy house for the kids to play in. Christopher got in...

But he was too small to get up on the slide by himself...

So he cheered on the other kids instead :)

He was so good, just as happy cheering them on, wasn't upset at all that he didn't get to go down it.

He'd stand there and yell "go go" as they went down.

We headed home at nap time which was a perfect ending to such a fun day.

Labor Day Weekend Festivities

My cousin and her husband came up for Labor Day. We had so much fun, went to the Greek Festival, hung out, they got to meet Christopher for the first time. It was great.

These are from Saturday night, we went to the festival Sunday, those to follow.

Playing cars with his "cousin" Merrill.

Patiently waiting for Merrill to come back so they could play more.

Playing with the Choo-Choo set that was ours as kids.

Mommy, the human pillow... this was after the festival...

Dinner. It was such a beautiful evening!

Uncle and his niece

mmmm... dinner

Yes, I guess corks are toys.... "sigh"

I love summer foods!

Playing around with Grandpa

His eyes have gotten bluer!!

Grandpa showing him how to cut a rug, or a deck, or whatever...

Then on to the evening fire pit. So, when it's christopher's bedtime, we usually just take him in. I figured it was a holiday weekend and let's see how he does. We hung out, he had fun...

We had already changed him into pjs...

Then group photo

And then a fading toddler.

He actually started to fall asleep laying sideways on my lap watching the fire. So we scooped him up and headed home, great evening.

Some videos...

This kid has some moves!

and some more moves