My baby turned 3! Happy Birthday my darling boy!! It was a celebration that consisted of Thomas the Train -- Thomas the Train bicycle, Thomas the Train cake and more Thomas!
Here's the cake...
Surprise...my first bicycle! No more trike for me! We spent an hour building this the night before and then my husband 'hid' it in the basement. Not anticipating that Ben would actually go down into the basement (why not he goes everywhere else?) I heard, "YAY MY BICYCLE!!!" from the basement at 9 am....surprise!! Oh well, at least he loved it! This was his acting surprised face when we brought it upstairs. :o)
It's good to be the king...kiss my ring.
Heavy sigh...here it comes. Then came, dare I say, my 40th birthday! I mean my 11th annual 29th!! HA! We had the best day. We went out for lunch and then off to the Andy Warhol Museum for some Silver Clouds:
That is such a dreamy room. They ran around like crazy boys but then we all laid on the floor and watched them float by. Simple concept, very brilliant. Thanks Mr. Warhol.
This is Remy holding onto a cloud.
Then we went off to see the Darth Vader painted mask exhibit a couple of floors below. Very cool. Loads of Darth Vader Masks that artists painted and changed to create their own version of the dark lord.
Image: Joe Ledbetter, Untitled, 2007, © 2009 Lucasfilm Ltd. & TM.
All rights reserved. (credit where credit is due!)
All rights reserved. (credit where credit is due!)
The kids dug it but it is so hard to explain to a now 3 yr old, 4 1/2, and almost 7 yr old not to cross the black line and don't touch anything. You really wanted to. They did good though. Good boys! No photos were allowed to be taken. :o(
On the way home we saw this on the corner:
A cool transformer-like sculpture that is made of the bridges of Pittsburgh. Too cool. I have to look into who made this.
Anyhoo, the birthday celebration continued with dinner out and cake. My boys picked out my birthday cake. Now every woman deserves a light up princess birthday cake don'tcha think?
Here was mine:
Now I think that they should start making queen cakes!
Max wrote a book for me:
In between birthdays, my son Max accidentally knocked my nameless guy off the table and broke his neck after my son Ben decided to paint him black! Remember this guy?
Well, he currently has a broken neck, flat cheek and black chest. No worries though, I can rebuild him, I have the technology. (Sheesh that is showing my age!) I will mend his neck, repaint him and add a cheek implant. Max felt horrible but it was truly an accident, I actually saw it happen and how can I not be mad at Ben for painting him black? I can't, he was trying to be creative, takes after his mom!
And lastly, my oldest turned 7!! Heavy sigh...where does the time go?!?! Now how about this for a cake?!?
So cool that I have to give you the action shot:
And of course Max's first reaction when he saw it:
There you have it. The life that is mine. Hope you weren't too bored. Believe me I could go on with the home improvement projects we have going on but I won't! lol
