Happy Birthday Jacob

Jake turned 4 this March and to celebrate I through him a birthday party. I don't know how much he actually knows about birthdays because of the language barrier so I went with a Curious George theme because that has been his favorite thing since he was 2.

Jake was SO excited to see all his friends. I was really worried about having extra time and what I would do with them but it turns out that what they really wanted to do is play outside. Some of the activities were:

Paint on the wall like Curious George did
Paint a puppet with George's face
Pinata
Easter egg hunt (time eater)
Pin the yellow hat on George
Make a bracelet out of candy life savers
Duck duck goose: I had Matt be in charge of this and it was HALARIOUS to see him teach the kids this game. All the kids kept running away down the hall expecting someone to chase them around the house. He gave up!



I couldn't bring myself to spend $20 on a pinata so I made mine instead. I was very happy at how it turned out. I only spend $1.00 for the tissue paper and the cost of 2 balloons which I already had. Matt thinks that I should have just spent the $20 bucks because of all the time it took me. I told him "no way this is fun." I guess he doesn't enjoy the arts!


Don't count the toes.... he has 11!


Pin the yellow hat on Curious George Game


I really injoyed seeing George get a good beating. He is such a naughty monkey in the t.v shows.

Pop Corn

I can't express how wonderfully Jake is doing. He is repeating EVERYTHING. Well not everything but he is piking up all sorts of words. He is TOTALLY a different kid. HE is happier, and he is even starting to put short sentences together. He is even saying words that I have never heard him say and because of his poor pronunciation I have a hard time understanding what he is asking for.

The other day he was asking for some porn. Yes it sounded just like I spelled it. "Mom I want some porn". I had no clue to what the heck he was talking about. It sounded really bad but kind of funny at the same time. After five minutes of being a patient mom I found out that porn is pop corn. "Oh you want some pop corn". " Ya mom POP. . . PORN"! I just have to pray that he doesn't ask for pop corn when we are somewhere public.