HALLOWEEN!!

I was excited, first Halloween I felt he was old enough to enjoy and go trick or treating :)

Made him a pumpkin Mickey hat, bought him a Mickey Halloween coloring book, pumpkin sippy cup, bought him trick or cheesy mac and cheese, were planning on buying a pizza from papa murphy's which was shaped like a pumpkin. The pumpkin pizza didn't work out, which I was happy about cause I dont like him eating tons of bad food in one day, we ended up having to go out to dinner cause it got late/no nap, and he didn't want to eat before we left. So no pumpkin peeshe...

Ok I have to stop here really quick the word PUMPKIN.  He doesn't say it, if he can help it, and calls them "apples"  I seriously think he is messing with us though!  Sometimes he gets into the repeating everything we say game... say "I love you" "I love you too" say, "rain-bow" "wain-bow",  say "pump-kin" "app-le" as he gives us that serious look! Lol  On our walks (which we do almost daily)  he has been waving at the pumpkins saying "bye bye the apples"  But I have caught him off guard and he'll say "umpkin" (if you haven't noticed he likes to take the first letter off most words) :)

I wanted to make sure he napped and had a great Halloween, but of course, waking him up early, taking him to the park, taking him a bath, making sure he had a full full belly,  didn't work, cause it's always my luck the days I try to wear him out are the days he will not nap.  His dad and I have a problem, we dont sleep unless our eyes are pretty much sealing shut and we can't stay up any longer, he's way worse than us.  But I'm pretty sure he was just excited David was working from home, but I didn't think of that until after his nap, I should've had David do nap time with me, like he does on weekends.

It ended up working out!  He wasn't cranky he was awesome!  His costume was a HIT!  He got a few compliments on his costume (ok he got tons) But he even people saying it was the best/cutest costume they had seen all night. :)  they also got a kick out of him telling them "Thank You" or if I told him to say Thank you, he would tell them "Welcome" ha!

He's super social.  Every house took us at least 5 minuets, I wish that was an exaggeration.  He would invite his self into houses, sit on chairs, sit on or in-between people, or tell his life story, it's just his personality... but not one person seemed to mind, they just adored him.  he ended up with two or three handfuls of candy from each house as well as balloons and other stuff.  I'm used to it from places like Red Robin, or Party City where tables (like an older birthday person, just gives Declan his balloon, or party city acts like it's not as inflated as they like and say it's free, I mean we've even had servers (that weren't even ours come over) tell as we're lucky our kid is so cute :), and I'm not bragging or anything I'm just proud mamma boasting :)) but, neighbors we have never really seen just taking the time to talk to him (one guy trying to kid nap him) lol It was awesome, for him and as a parent.  :) I love my amazing little guy... now pictures... didnt take much from Halloween but here's some I haven't posted yet.

LOVE this

Train!

He loved this!

Done with trick or treating wanting his olli pops

Birthdays

Declan was actually due on David's birthday!  When I was pregnant I really wanted to give birth on that day, Happy Birthday, here's your first son! :)

Now, I'm very grateful to have a week buffer!

Anyone who knows me knows how much I'm in love with my little guy!  I'm also very much in love with my David, sure we're not perfect, but I'm lucky to have him, he's good to me and more importantly just as in love with Declan as I am.  (I've probably said that tons of times before, I know *gag gag*)  I'm lucky to have them both.

Well for starters Declan's first (2nd) birthday party didn't start out as planned... David and I tried to be super parents, spent 40 dollars on baking stuff for cup cakes for both parties, thought it would taste better and be like our first few dates :)  (I suggested getting to know one another doesn't mean going out but it's fun cooking together and talking/working together).... WELL I got the wrong measuring cup (mainly cause the dishwasher melted off the size) and put too much oil.  Well we did a pre-run with the home made cream cheese frosting (though I told David we needed to add oreos in the trial, he claims not to remember, it turned out well then, but adding the oreo crumbs made it lumpy).  So didn't look great, and the cup cakes didn't taste very good lol.  So my Mickey mouse oreo cake pops...... disaster.  I am patient, with kids, especially with Declan, baking, not so much.  I can if I really set my mind to it, but it was running late and was WAY more time consuming that I anticipated.  Do I think I could do them if I REALLY tried?  Absolutely.  But at 1 in the morn when we were starting them, I just was not in the mood to make it work.  I wanted it to be fast and quick lol, the ears were falling off and I know it was lack of patience, David even tried to make it work, but I was just not caring either way lol.  I just woke up early, called Fry's Bakery and ordered 2 dozen cupcakes, did the same for the next day, sleep was more important than coming off as supreme bakers lol. I was also proud of myself cause as David say's I get "too serious/stressed" when I plan things and they dont go how I want... I'm trying to ease up a lot.

The Mickey party went as smooth as I could have hoped for.  It was at Stuffington Bear, which is about 300 dollars cheaper than build-a-bear, but still fun.  I'm sure we could've skipped the tour, they're 2 year olds and dont really care, and it felt like a sweat shop in the sewing room.  I did like this party cause it was a few of my closest friends (with kids) I felt less stressed (though my son was out-of-control) and glad to have less chaos than the last party... on the flip side, I did like the simplicity of one party"getting it over" in one day, and kids of all ages, cause then I didn't feel like I left people out.  Next year I think I'm going to try the one party again...

Peter Piper Pizza is the Pizza People Pick!! That was the family party, there were not many more people and  some family bought some of their own food/drinks, AND it costs us more than Stuffington bear. I still dont know how that happened??!  Weird.  AND my kid was completely nuts there too many toys/lights/games.... the only gift he wanted was to take the trunki his grandma (Amma) bought him back to the play area (not that he didn't like his other gifts later, but at his party he was just not caring lol.  But it was still nice to see family :)  And I let David do most of the chasing :)

On his actual birthday we took him to the choo choo park!  Let him play there all day, napped then took him to texas roadhouse, since they do a cute happy birthday!  (the saddle declan loves horsies)

David knew what his present was, the new kindle paperwhite.  He has an ipad so he wanted this one to strictly read books that was convenient and light.  I think he really likes it :)   We ended up doing family time stuff and going to a few of his favorite places to eat.  As well as going to the Zoo which was more for Declan.  (We like going to the wildlife zoo cause it has a petting zoo and the aquarium)  He loved the petting zoo!  LOVED the OOH AH's (ooh ooh ah ah)  Monkey's.  At the aquarium he loved it as well, cause he wasn't in his stroller and could run around more (we let him run around a little in the zoo, but this kid is crazy, seriously... I didn't want them to think one of their animals got loose!! He kept pointing (at the aquarium) saying "what's that" but before we could tell him he was off to the next tank asking the same question.  It was a good day :)

Best friends

He kept trying to share his cupcake with Mickey! (Mickey was scared cause he has to get his costume dry cleaned if he dirties it! lol

YAY MICKEY