Birthday Celebrations!

signing "blue," and then indicating his favourite Wiggle, Anthony (the guy in blue)

So, the morning of Jordan's birthday was, of course, not the end of the birthday fun around here!  In fact, it is the end of the day Sunday and we are only just winding down, it has been KER-RAZY around here!  But a fun kind of crazy.  I picked Jordy up from pre-school where they all had enjoyed some chocolate cupcakes, there happened to be ONE extra which four teachers split between them!  After we got home and Jordy had a nap, our friend Eryn came over for some dinner and to have some birthday cake, because even though we planned on a big celebration on Saturday, Mommy had to do a cake and a little present on the "day of."  And since we wanted as little cake hanging around this house afterwards as possible, we invited our kindly neighbours, Orval and Sandy from next door, over too.

 

checking out the goodies Eryn gave him

Here he says Eryn's name! 

We love the way he tosses his ball into the new glove too!

While Eryn and I were having dinner with Jordy, he said "Happy Birt-day!" about fitty'leven times, but as soon as the camera was on he refused to say it, no matter how much we asked.  He did however, say how old he turned!  We're calling it a victory.

     

Wellington's Rainy Day from Orval and Sandy

He stars out by saying thank you to Mommy, then Eryn, but I can't get him to say Mr. & Mrs. Cosby!  Instead he calls Orval by his first name, he can even say the name of their doggie, Chloe but doesn't know how to say Sandy!  Poor Sandy, left out!

Dad with Mom: freshly coiffed and enjoying a night without kids!

As many of you know, Jordan's birthday is the day before Mommy's!  On Friday, Mom went and got her hair cut and coloured and then Eryn kindly watched the Little Dumers while we went to The Boathouse for a delicious dinner.  And a surprise present was Mommy's new Kitchenaid stand-mixer which I used at midnight that night to whip up some buttercream frosting to decorate my little dude's cake!

 The birthday feast! 

Thanks to Cindi for taking many of these pics,

as I was pretty busy that afternoon and am glad someone snapped them!

For Jordan's celebration day, we got the most gorgeous warm and sunny day!  It was beautiful!  And we were happy to see the sun, as it would have been mighty crowded in the house with munchkins running all around. 

Trio of Mums: Me, Michelle & Cindi

Jerry kindly gives me a little break and holds the princess for a while

 

 Owen wanting me to hurry and take the picture already!

 Jake explains to Jordy that The Gruffalo is his favourite book!

 Ooh!  The Big Red Car from Mom, Dad & Cygni!  This gift was a huge hit!

There's not just blood, sweat and tears baked into that cake,

there is a whole lot of yellow #5....

 One of the biggest crowd-pleasers was the Balloon Typhoon.  "What on earth," you might ask, "is a Balloon Typhoon, Deb?!"  Well, it's a big inflated space (in this case shaped like a clown's noggin,) and the fan that inflates it also blows around as many balloons as Daddy and Auntie Michelle can blow up before passing out.  Add kidlets, and your recipe for fun is complete!  Check out the snaps and videos we have below:

 In that big happy clown head is a BALLOON TYPHOON!

When we first set up the Balloon Typhoon, we had to talk Jordy into coming out with us, not always an easy task, so I said, "daddy has a surprise outside for you, come outside!" And henceforth, as far as Jordy was concerned the Balloon Typhoon was called The Surprise.  And the video above demonstrates how you sign surprise.

Nolan catches one!

After all the kids left, all of us went down for a nap! We didn't have to return the Balloon Typhoon til the next day, so we invited some of the other neighbourhood kids to come play inside for a little while, then we had some family balloon typhoon fun! It wasn't long though, before we had to say good-bye to the the balloon typhoon, and Jordan was sure to say, "B'bye!" to the balloons, and the fan and the clown's head. As Mommy took the kids up for a bath Daddy packed it all up to take back to the rental place Sunday morning, bright and early. We went with him then had breakfast together. Jordy took his Wiggles and The Big Red Car with him, and I am sad to say that somewhere between the restaurant and home, we lost Anthony - the Blue guy! Looks like we're going to be doing just a little more online shopping! O'course the chaos hasn't quite ended... shortly after we got home Cygni felt really warm, and has had a bit of a fever all day. She is sleeping soundly now (nearly midnight,) so we hope this will blow over soon. But a HUGE thank you to all our friends and family who helped us celebrate Mommy & J-man's birthdays, even from afar. It was a very special weekend for both of us!