Robby's Birthday

Robby's birthday was over a month ago, but I figured I should go ahead and do a post about it.  I'm okay with the fact that I will never stay on top of this.

Anyway, it was a great celebration.  Robby wanted spaghetti and broccoli for dinner, and he wanted pink cake, pink frosting, and pink ice cream (he likes strawberry flavor).  Luckily he didn't mind white frosting instead- we didn't want to overkill the strawberry thing.  Plus, how do you decorate a boy cake that has pink frosting? 

Right now both boys love the cartoon Phinneas and Ferb so John decorated the cake with those characters, which Robby loved.

 The evening was pretty simple with a few gifts and a few family games.  Perfect.  Robby was especially excited to get this garbage truck- it's so him.

 He also got a movie...let's see what movie was it?  Oh that's right it was Madagascar 3, which came with it's very one rainbow afro.  Dear me?  Do you just love that lisp?

One of Robby's best friends, McKay, has a birthday two days after Robby, so we decided to get together for a little playdate with their other best friend, Maddy.  The kids were thrilled to make individual pizzas and loved playing together. 

I still can't believe it's been four years since this little miracle joined our family.  He is so sweet, sensitive, and lively.  He gets soooo excited about the simplest things, which makes life so much fun.  He is a good cuddler and gives great hugs and kisses.  He loves preschool and has won over the teachers and faculty with his sweetness.  They tell me all the time how sweet he is and is always looking out for and helping others.  We love our Gus!

Halloween

Halloween (yes, that was like 5 weeks ago, but better late than never).  We started with our traditional mummy dogs for dinner.

And then headed out for some trick-or-treating.

 This year we cheated and used our electric scooters, which was pretty much awesome.  John got me two of these for my birthday (that means he got me one for me and he got me one for him).  I suppose the scooters need a blog post of their own sometime because we love 'em that much!

Anyway, we headed out on the scooters because we wanted to visit some friends in our ward who don't have any small children living at home anymore and we simply adore them.  They live a little too far away to walk so we thought we'd swing by on our scooters.  It was a blast cruising through the neighborhood and seeing all of our friends and neighbors out and about.  The boys loved waving to everyone and we enjoyed checking out every one's costumes along the way.  We met up with some friends from church and finished the evening trick-or-treating with them. 

The next day we did our candy science experiment where we sorted the candy in a muffin tin and then watched what happened when we heated them up in the oven.  Tyler thought this was pretty cool, since they were learning about matter in school at that time.  He watched how the candy went from solid to liquid and back to solid when it cooled.  I was just happy with the fact that he wasn't eating all that stuff ;)  And don't worry, we did keep some of the good stuff, but it was nice to get rid of a bulk of the candy.   

Robby did great.  Halloween doesn't scare me like it used to- I mean that in the "I have a type 1 diabetic kid kind of way."  It's a bit of work, but we've certainly learned how to make it a little easier.