My baby is turning 5!!!

Camden turned 5 today! I can't believe that my baby is 5 already! The years have gone by so fast! He got everything he asked for and more! Here is a slideshow of his birthday party with our family.

Cohen & Joyce

Joyce and I took some movies back and decided to stop by IGA and get some ice cream. I scooped out some for Lou, Joyce and myself. I gave Lou and I extra servings so we could share with the boys. After Cohen helped me finish mine (he actually ate most of it! lol!) he started eating all Aunt Joyce's ice cream! He's such an ice cream addict.

Color Explosion Spinner

Cohen got a Color Explosion Spinner when we were in Chicago for the fourth and we are just now playing with it. I finally bought batteries last night! It appears that I lost the dropper and I only have the marker, which doesn't work nearly as well. So it seems that Cohen quickly learned how to improvise:

I think we will now call it the Color Explosion Spitter! lol!

Sun & Fun

Today was a busy day, we ran errands, played outside, went to the pool, they couldn't stay awake any longer!

Early Morning Picnic in the Park

Well, lately my insomnia is getting the better of me. I was up til almost one unable to sleep and woke up at 4:30 unable to go back to sleep! Ugh! Cohen woke up at 4:30 too and didn't go back to sleep because I was up. Camden woke up at 7:00 and I told him I had a surprise for them. While he was sleeping I made up a batch of blueberry muffins. I prepared a bag of muffins, pancakes, fresh strawberries, Sunny D, and a blanket. We got dressed and headed out for a picnic in the park! They were so excited! We got there around 7:20 and played for about an hour.

We ate:

then fed the ducks:

then played on everything:

We left at 8:15 and headed off to work! What a great morning, but boy am I tired though!

Wrestling with Nanu

The boys hadn't seen Nanu for a while (well, they had SEEN her but they hadn't had time to PLAY with her) and they went crazy. You have to see it, it's so funny!

Cohen Singing

Cohen loves for me to sing with him before bed, but he only likes songs he can sing with me. His favorites are: "You are my sunshine", "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star", and "Itsy Bitsy Spider". Here we are singing "You are my sunshine" in bed shortly before he fell asleep.

(we have those energy efficient light bulbs and they take a while to warm up to full power, that's why the first video is quite a bit darker than the second video)

Cohen was being really silly in this video, halfway through he decided to growl the song! LOL!

These are those tender sweet moments that I will cherish forever.

Dancing Boys

Here are some short videos of the boys dancing. This is Camden's favorite: The Pussycat Dolls song called "Don't Cha". He has the videos on DVD and has the lyrics memorized. Crazy kid! LOL!

They crack me up! I can't wait to show this to them when they are older! How cute!

Saint Louis Zoo

Lou was off this week on vacation so we decided to take the boys to the zoo. They had a great time!