Kyles turns 4!!

On March 30th, Kyle turned 4 years old!!! With Mater Tall Tales out, he has fallen in love with Cars all over again. So we decided to do a DRIVE IN MOVIE! Here is the invitation I made. I found something similar online for mucho mucho moola, so I just recreated it in powerpoint. I was going for a movie ticket effect. Here are the decorations for the party. Super simple. A banner, ballons and a red table cloth. We had some squeezers for drinks, and popped some popcorn and set up a candy bar. The cake was Tokyo Mater themed. I had this grandeous idea for the cake and the the moring of the party as I began to decorate I realized I had NO IDEA what I was doing! LOL! So a couple of hours before the party I scrapped everything I had, and did a simple round cake, and then cut a slightly taller cake in have and put it behind the round one to make it look like a ledge. A friend let me borrow the toy crane from the movie, and I had that swaying in the background. I used the backside of legos as distant buildings. Then I made a variety of Tokyo themed signs. Then I attempted a fire affect along the bottom. He loved it (all that matters!). We collected a lot of cardboard boxes, and painted them red, black, blue, and purple. We used white paper plates as headlights, and spray painted some black for wheels. The kiddos decorated their cars with foam stickers and then made a license plate for their car as well.

We borrowed a projector from a friend, and pulled down our sun shade that is attached to our back porch. It worked FANTASTICALLY! We, of course watched Mater Tall Tales.

We sure love the sweet, energetic energy our little guy brings to our family!!

Kyle started T-ball last week. He was SOOO excited! He is on the Yankees. We really lucked out with the coach that was assigned to his team. It is a husband and wife team, and they are SO great with him. I think they are a perfect match for him. They practice twice a week, and then have a couple games a week. So it will be a busy couple of months! He loves wearing his uniform! He wasn't a fan of the cup during the first practice, but I did something different for the next one, and he wasn't bothered by it at all tonight. (Of course Karl goes out of the town the week our first born son has to wear a cup for the first time). Tonight was his first game! Here he is all dressed up. I told him he was so cute, that I could just eat him up. To which he said "Please don't. I don't want to be late for my game."Here he is with his meanest game face on. Kyle loved the game! I think he may of enjoyed the socialization of it all, as much as everything. On two of the bases they have a parent volunteer standing there, just to give the kids an extra reminder when they are supposed to run. It was so funny, because I think Kyle used his opportunity of a captive audience to his full advantage! Then when he was running the bases, he would often times be seen chatting with the opposing team's member who was covering that base. He even scored four runs!

Kyle had such a great time. I think this will be a really good experience for him!