Our guest Natalie was scared of the spider, unless she was playing with it herself.
She got it spinning in circles.
It's funny watching a little girl in a dress playing with a spider.
After I posted this, Natalie's mom (Jodie seen in the photo) called me to tell me that Natalie woke up 3 times last night scared that a spider was going to attack her. It was her mom's idea to get it out after I told her how Isaak acted. LOL
Isaak was terrified of this spider when we got it out last night. It's been awhile since we got it out to play with. He was trying to crawl up our legs, and was crying a terrified cry.
I tried to capture it on video, but it was too late.
Tonight he was pretty calm about the spider. He was studying it more then anything.
Aunt Becky, Grandpa Spiehs, Grandma Spiehs and cousin Ethan worked on setting up one, while Travis worked on the other.
I think the adults had just as much fun watching the kids play as the kids had fun playing.
Whenever Mica played really intensely he sticks his tongue out. Just something I noticed a lot tonight.
So...I had some games set up to play for the party, but getting the train sets, set up and played with occupied them so well. No games this year.
I'll hold onto the winner ribbons for some other year. :)
I was going to have the boys play drop the clothes pin in the jar. They stand on a step ladder, and try and drop it in. We played this when we were kids at our parties.
I think Mica asked me, "Is it time for my birthday yet?" about 50 times before the party.
He could not wait for the presents.
He got some puzzles, games, Team Geotrax sets, a Thomas engine, a Berenstain Bears watch too Much TV book and flash cards.
Notice that he has on his Burger King crown. I bought him a conductor hat for the occasion, and he kept his crown on all evening long.
For his actual birthday on the 10th we'll give him Grandma and Grandpa Apel's present, a Thomas car from Isaak and we got him a frisbee to open up. We'll go out to dinner too.
The top one has jelly beans and other candy on it. The smoke stack is 1/2 an ice cream cone.
The bottom one has black sprinkles that my sister Terra bought me for my birthday. It also has crumbles of the failed cake on it. I thought, why not utilize the mistake?
We had raspberry, lemon and orange sherbet as choices to go with the cake. Mica loves sherbet! I'm a pretty big fan as well!
It is funny how I craved sherbet when I was pregnant with him, and right after I had him. Maybe Mica as a baby was trying to tell me something.
Grandpa Spiehs and Aunt Terra took Mica, Nephew's Evan and Elijah to the fairly new Pedestrian Bridge here in Omaha.
Grandpa took pictures for us.
Isaak stayed at home with Grandma Spiehs. I was very glad to hear he was staying home because he's been waking up with teething pain in the middle of the night. A good morning nap is what he needed.
Mica is a nose picker. I've blogged about this before.
He's been picking his nose, and then every once in awhile he gets a bloody nose.
I got after him about not picking boogers, and that he needs to get a tissue. He's been saying, "Mommy I'm not picking boogers! I'm picking out booger seeds!"
Travis took the boys to the zoo again yesterday, while I worked.
They went to see the aviary. Mica's fav animal is the peacock, and we've never taken him into the aviary. We've just seen random peacock's walking around. I guess he really liked the flamingo's. They did see lots of peacock's outside the aviary with peacock babies (how cute)!
They went into the petting zoo. Isaak pet some goats, but soon wanted to pull on their fur.
They also went into the new Butterfly exhibit.
Later they met up with some more of my family.
Grandma Spiehs paid for them to go on the new sky lift. Thank you Grandma! I'm glad it was Travis and not me taking them on the ride. I just don't like the idea of holding Isaak on rides! I'm a wimp! Isaak fell asleep in Daddy's arms one way. On the way back around Mica talked about taking off his shoes, so Isaak was trying to remove his shoes. Stinkers!
I'm so glad we have a great zoo right here in Omaha. We do have an admission fee. If we didn't, I'm sure we'd be paying for it in our taxes. It was so worth it to get a zoo pass for the year!
Isaak wants to walk most of the time now. In parking lots, he tries to throw himself out of my arms when I pick him up to carry him.
He's slow, so when cars are coming I want to pick him up, otherwise I don't care if he walks. Luckily his walk is getting faster, but he still has tiny legs that don't move as fast as mine.
I'm so glad he is good about holding my hand (right now anyhow).
I remember when Mica went through a phase where he didn't want to hold my hand. He didn't have a choice!
Isaak does want to be picked up right away when I come home from work. He also pulls at me when I'm busy in the kitchen. I'm thinking it's because he missed me and wants Mommy time. Dinner won't serve it's self. Once dinner is done, Isaak get lots of Mommy time.
Mica had his first swimming lesson with my niece Kailey last night.
She's planning to be a life guard next year, and is a great swimmer! I told her to try one session out with him first to see if she'd even want to do it again. She does. So...we'll pay her what we would for him to go to regular swimming lessons. I'll have to call around to see how much they cost.
She said he did really well! He kicked, put his face in the water twice, and she got him to go off the diving board twice.
The diving board took awhile. Then he wouldn't jump off to show his Aunt Angela when she got there. That totally didn't surprise me. He went down the slides at the Gene Leahy Mall twice by himself, then wouldn't go again.
While Mica was at swim lessons we took Isaak shopping for Mica's birthday. We got a coupon from ToysRUs for a free Thomas wooden railway train under $12.99. We got Sir Topham Hat in his car. It was hard choosing. We also saw an orange train, and Mica fav color is orange. I thought Isaak could give this to Mica on his birthday.
I had to hang up student name tags at work today, so I was up and down on desks. I banged one of my legs pretty good!
I actually had to get a Band-aid, which I rarely use. Then I banged my leg in the same spot one other time.
Later in the day I was caring a stack of artwork up to the front of the school, and didn't see the chairs in the lobby. I didn't drop anything, but a chair arm went right into my private area. I knock the chairs all over too. Even though it hurt I was laughing at myself.
I won a set of 6 Thank You cards from: Anna Tillett Designs called Think, Thank, Thunk
Site: http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=57144
I won a Itzbeen (Baby Care Monitor). I'm handing this over to my friend Rae that's going to have a new little one in Aug. This would have been great when my boys were sick! It monitors everything (feedings, diaper changes and more).
Site: http://www.itzbeen.com/
I won a pair of socks of my color choice. I chose brown seeing that I ware mine out every year.
Site: www.welovecolors.com
So...Thank You giveaways! Thank You companies that gave away!
This kind of monkey kept wanting to join us on our walk through the Rain Forest! He was so close you could touch him or her.
I think this is the animal my sister Angela looks most like. It's the fur color. Angela has strawberry blond hair and has a small frame.
The Golden Lion Tamarin monkey is one of the most endangered mammals in the world. This monkey is nearly extinct because of its magnificent mane. Poachers desire this monkey's hide as they can sell for as much as twenty thousand dollars on the black market!
Mica Being a Monkey
I joked with Mica that monkeys are closely related to us because we are Ape-l's, Ape's.
