Est. 2000: February 2011

Who's Right Here?

Tonight at dinner, Evan starts singing:

"Follow duh pwahfet, follow duh pwahfet, follow duh pwahfet, (now shaking his finger at me) don't go a-stwaaaaaay"

First of all, I didn't know he could sing that song, so I was totally impressed.

Then Cohen joins in the singing and the way he's saying 'astray' sounds funny, so I ask him "Don't go a-what?"

C - "Don't go a-STRANGE."

Evan pipes up and in a very reprimanding voice says to Cohen, "NO! It's don't go a-STWAIT!"

So, either way you look at it, just follow the prophet.

THE BATMAN PARTY!!!!!!

2 comments Posted by Natalie at 1:01 PM

Cohen turned 5 last week!!! Can you believe it? FIVE!!!!!!! He'll go to kindergarten in the fall, and before you know it he'll be leaving me forever. . .my baby, gone!!! WAAAAAHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!

I had all sorts of grand ideas for this Batman/Superhero party, but Baby Will was super sick last week and wanted to be held every waking moment so most of these grand ideas got simplified and simplified until they were. . .well. . .actually just right. Perfect!

We started with a game of 'Pin the Bat-a-Rang on the Joker'. Cohen wanted Bat-a-Rangs somehow. This is what I came up with. Brilliant, I know.

As soon as that game was over, we discovered a note written by the BAD GUYS!!!!! AAAAHHHH!!!

I led them on a picture scavenger hunt (because most of them can't read yet, I just drew pictures of the clues) that ended here:

Oh yes, I created a Batcave. . .right in my own garage. . .you opened that door with the awesome hand-crafted sign on it and were led right into 'the cave'. I set up our large tent in the garage. Perfect, yes.

You'll notice in the picture above, pictures of 'BAD GUYS' taped to all of the balloons inside of the Batcave. . .Well, they had to STOMP out the bad guys in lieu of beating them up. Clever, right? (This was one of those things that was going to be more elaborate. . .I had plans to make a pinata decorated like some bad guy or other that they could take turns smacking, like beating up the bad guy, get it? This was SOOOO much easier!!)

So here they are stomping out those bad guys. Thank you TJ for making the appropriate face to accompany this photo.

Hidden deep within the cave, under an inconspicuous cardboard box. . .

THE CAKE!!!

(Another thing that was going to be elaborate that ended up being easy. Thank goodness!! What was I thinking? It just gets eaten!!!!)

They rescued it from the hands of evil that had confiscated it for evil-doing, so that we could, yep - eat it.

I even made myself a Super-Hero mask and wore Evans cape. I was Super-Mom!!! Dun-dun-dun.

It looks like you need to take a really really big breath to blow out all of those candles!!!!

Yea, we had something like 14 kids at this party. . .never again. . .

Then we unwrapped presents. I forgot to take a picture of him at the end with ALL the loot, so here's just a few.

He was so excited to get his first box of LEGO's from Connor.

Bad picture of Cohen, but here's the awesome Iron-Man dude he got.

Yummy Cake!

Baby Will. . .getting ready for his 1st birthday in about 6 more weeks. . .practicing with Cohens cake!

After cake we played games and let the kids just go crazy in the AWESOME Bat-Cave. I think everybody left happy. Success.

0 comments Posted by Natalie at 12:27 PM

This morning I'm getting ready, and Cohen, right out of bed, comes in and says "Mom, I need to tell you something." OK. . . "Will you get me a computer for my bedroom?" What?! I say "No, you're not old enough for that." C - "Ok, will you get me one when I'm 6?" By now I'm just chuckling. . ."No, we have a computer for our family, we don't all get our own. C - "PLEEEEEEEEEAAAAAASE?"

Really? A computer in your bedroom at 5 years old? I don't know where he comes up with this stuff.

And then, later, when we're eating breakfast, I'm talking to the boys about what they will be learning about at PreSchool. They have Show-And-Tell every Tuesday, and every week is a new topic, so the rule now is that you bring something to Show-&-Tell that actually has something to do with the subject rather than the same toy over and over and over, which is what was happening from my house at least! This week they are learning about our Country and Presidents, because it was Presidents Day yesterday. I ask if he knows what country we live in. "Yep, Woods Cross." Well, he's got the idea, but nope, that's not our country. I ask if he's ever heard of the United States of America, or the USA? Nope. Have you heard of Mexico? Nope. I knew he'd heard of China because I have threatened to send him there, and have also warned him not to call there when he's playing on my phone. Anyhow I say, 'But you've heard of China?' Yep! Yay! I haven't taught him NOTHING, right? and he says "I know how they talk in China." How's that? "Oo-ya-ka. And they say Oh-yee-sa-ha."

There you have it. Cohen is bilingual. Isn't TV great for educating your children?!