Birthdays, Build-A-Bears, Books Fun!

In case you couldn't tell, I hate coming up with titles.

We had an eventful weekend with a birthday party, build-a-bear and celebrating Dr. Seuss birthday at Books4Kids.

Saturday morning we headed to southridge mall to see the Cat in the Hat. We met up with Saran, Lena, Carrie and Stella as well. The kids got tattoos, decorated bookmarks and got to pick out a free book. Quentin picked out Manners at School. We haven't read it yet, but should be interesting.

The Des Moines register was there, and asked if they could
take the kids pictures. They actually sat very well and he
took several pictures. We'll see if any of them end up in the
paper. 

Look Stella! See my tattoo? 

I couldn't even tell you the last time I'd been to Southridge mall. They've really done some improvements, but have a lot more to do. The Animal Rescue League has a store there, and had several cats up for adoption. Lena and Stella loved watching them.

These 2 were something else! 

Cameron was a rockstar the whole
day. Napping for most of it, and
taking everything in when he was awake.

We headed to Wyatt and Jackson's first birthday party after the mall.  I can't believe they're already one. It was their golden birthday and Sarah and Jeremy had an awesome party for them. Quentin enjoyed playing with playdoh, and picking suckers out of the sucker flower.

The boys did great eating cake. Wyatt dove right in. Jackson
was a little more hesitant, but eventually just went for it. 

"want a sucker, Stella?"

Quentin took a good long nap after the party and we hung around the house the rest of the day.

This picture was taken on Saturday. But Friday night, Q
wanted to goto bed with a book, as he often does. After
putting him to bed, he got up, turned his light on, and
read the book. We could hear him talking so Jeremy went in
to see what he was doing. It was pretty hard to tell him he
couldn't read, so Jeremy finished reading the book to him,
and he then went to sleep. 

Quentin wanted to sit next to Cameron.. So I told him he had
to make sure he didn't fall. 

Cam man is getting good at sitting by himself. 

Quentin wanted to read a book to Cameron. Cameron was
playing with a toy, but Q told him it was story time and he
had to put his toy away. so he took it from him. Cameron
didn't seem to mind, but then wanted the book. 

Sunday we met up with Lena and Saran to do Build-a-Bear. Quentin didn't really know what it was, but I was pretty excited to see how it worked.

Quentin chose a floppy eared puppy. and it's SUPER CUTE!!! 

Giving the puppy a bath. 

We stopped at Scheels on the way out of the mall and ended up buying something I've been wanting for awhile - a trailer/stroller. The croozer 525 is something I'd been eyeing for awhile and Scheels just happened to have it on sale. It's a double stroller that also doubles as a bike trailer the kids can ride in. I'm now officially looking forward to spring so we can use it.

The rest of the afternoon was free. Grandma Nancy came over for dinner and to hang out.

Cameron loves his baths and splashing. 

and is very grabby. He loves grabbing faces, hair, really
anything that comes in reaching distance. 

Huge thanks to Bobbie for the fishing pole - A big hit with
Quentin. He loved "catching" the fish.