A visit to Crown Center

Last week, Disney's Cars came into town to do a promotion for the new Cars 2 moving coming out this summer so I took the boys down to Crown Center to see the big Lightning McQueen and Mater cars. 

Hudson obsessed over the new Cars character there and wanted to know the name of the car. I thought the blue Car was Sally but he insisted it was not Sally. Sure enough Sally is a Porche, not a Thunderbird. He is so detail oriented, especially with cars. He points out any Nissan Murano in a parking lot to tell me it is like Nana's car and knows most of his friend's cars too. No one down there knew it so then he told me I needed to look it up on my phone. So we did and now we know "Finn" is the new star. 

After the Cars display, we ventured to the free play exhibit inside Crown Center along with every other child in the Kansas City area. It was amazing we all left together as it was mass chaos inside of a room full of mazes. Jack loves to play hide and seek so he took advantage of this and finally after losing him multiple times, I promised to bring them back another day. 

If you leave a piece of pizza on the kitchen table.....

This little monster will climb up on the table to snatch it.

Then he will make sure you are watching this naughty behavior.

Look, no hands!

Yum.

If he gets caught up on the table, he usually just starts dancing. 

So if you come over any time soon, you will now know why all of our chairs are laying on their sides at our house.

What the boys did during the KU game

Clearly they were not very interested in the basketball game, but they did find ways to entertain themselves.

 Hudson opted for a basket "hat" while reading the Bible. Lots of stores in the Bible must start with "God said". 

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John took a bathroom break and the boys took over the remote to get Mickey Mouse Clubhouse on. Jack can now imitate the Hot Dog dance. I can think of no worse song to have stuck in your head by the way.

The guilty face after he got caught with crayons in the corner of the room.

Almost spring

We have been so lucky with a few nice days this week and the kids can't get enough of being outside.

Getting the mower ready for the season with bubbles

The boys watched the neighbor kids jump for an hour I swear. They did go over later and jump. Jack loved it as long as no one "touched" him. The older neighbor girls love to try to pick him up and baby him but he was not having it and would scream if they came near him. Then they told him that the 2 year old down the street has a crush on him. Girls. They are too funny. We learned more than we ever needed to know about Justin Beiber that night :). 

Why use a door to get in the car when you can climb right over. 

Our first pop sickle. 

Pizza with Pa

 We had so much fun this weekend with Pa and town and the boys ate up the attention. 

It didn't take long for Jack to warm up to Pa as he hadn't seen him in a few months. He brought over his favorite animal book and sat up on his lap to show off his animal sounds.

Pa teaching Hudson how to color in the lines. He did pretty well!

After the party, we hit up Waldo Pizza. Yum! Hudson had a plate full of pepperoni pizza along with a side of pepperoni from the salad bar. He and Pa share the love of pepperoni!

Jack was in hog heaven with the salad bar toppings. We sure got our money's worth that meal as he was "free". He ate about three plates of peas, black olives, mushrooms, eggs, shredded cheese and tomatoes. The child eating habits get stranger and stranger every day. He is slowly warming up to fruit though and loves grapefruit. 

He even reached onto my plate to grab some romaine lettuce. Like I said, he is strange!

And even more strange then the salad bar toppings...crayons

and candy wrappers. 

The belly following the buffet.

Hudson's birthday party

Last weekend, we ended Hudson's birthday celebration "week" with a birthday party with his friends at Reading Reptile, a children's bookstore in Brookside. 

Hudson and his friend, Clayton. I love that they are making the same sound effects with their toys.

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When we lived in Brookside and Hudson was one year old, we used to walk to this bookstore to play in this little play area in front. He is much bigger now!

We were so happy Pa came in town for the weekend.

They started the party with a birthday story. The kids listened to every word this woman said.  I want her tricks!

Then they started making playdough. And Ainsley and Kate started planning playdates. The little conversations these kiddos had were hilarious! 

The boys making "snakes".

Painting egg cartons

"Blowing up" play dough volcanoes. They loved this!

Decorating cupcakes. Hudson was so excited to see gummy bears. 

About half way through the Happy Birthday song, Hudson realized they were singing to him and he got a little embarrassed!

Jack stayed with Nana during the party which is why there were actually books on the bookshelf at the end of the party. 

All the kids had so much fun when Hudson was opening gifts. They loved giving the gift they had picked out and even asked to come over to play with it. Four year olds are pretty funny!