August Birthdays

Shane's friend Lennon (aka Lemon) turned 3 this month! She had a birthday at her house and the kids got to decorate their own mini cupcakes. They loved it! Shane was very proud of his blue frosting, super sprinkled creation!

Birthday Girl with her cupcakes

Lennon in the cute butterfly hat I made for her!

Too cute playing in the play house together

At first Shane avoided the cute girls in the pool

Lennon attacking Shane, but he loves it!

We also celebrated Ryan's 35th birthday this month! His Mom and Step-Dad treated us to sushi at Hana. This was Shane's first sushi experience. He didn't try any of the rolls, but he did seem to really like the red wine teriyaki salmon. YUMMY!

Aunt Tammy and Shane

Happy Birthday, Ryan!!

Fun in the Sun

We went to the Santa Rosa Air Show, but Shane wasn't very interested in the airplanes...and the cool jet was so loud that it hurt his ears. He did have a blast playing with his buddy Zane though! So these ended up being the only few pictures I took while at the air show...but they sure are cute ones!

I also managed to escape to the river with Shane one day. We went to our favorite spot and he made a new little tiny friend: Mr. Froggy!

Here he is so excited that he almost squished his new friend!

Here is a close-up of Mr. Froggy

Shane loved him and played with him for a long time

"There is a frog on my head!"

Fair Days

We got to go to the fair TWICE this year and both times for FREE! Well tickets and parking were free...I'm not even going to mention how much was spent on all the other fun stuff inside! I was excited for Shane this year since he is a little bit bigger and would be able to go on some of the rides. But of course before any of the rides we had to find ICE CREAM!!

It turned out that Shane was still just a little too small to ride some of the rides alone, but we are smooth talkers and Shane is just so darn cute most people can't resist him :) Here he is with Daddy on his all time favorite...SUPER SLIDE! I just love this smile!

It cost $5 PER PERSON to go on the ferris wheel...so I sat this one out. Unfortunately Shane was a little scared of how high it went and kept asking for Mommy so maybe next time I won't be so cheap ;)

Shane and Ryan also went through fun house maze with all the clear plexiglass, but I couldn't get any good pictures from the outside. The first time Shane smacked head on into the clear window I started to panic, but he just laughed and did it over and over again. It was pretty darn funny!

Last, but not least was the Beach Fun House! Shane was just under the height limit and we didn't even have enough tickets for both him and Ryan...but we worked our magic and he loved it!

The second day we went to the fair I promised him cake with SUGAR so funnel cakes were our first stop. You will see his little Iron Man figures in most of these pictures because in between these two trips to the fair my big boy finally became completely potty trained and got his Iron Man rewards!

Here we ran into our friends Rick and Stacey and their two boys Zane and Ozzy. We don't see them very often, but Shane and Zane soon became good buddies! Here we all are in the Hall of Flowers.

Aren't these boys adorable? Shane was really excited to have some friends to play with.

Shane finally found a friend who loves to dance as much as he does! It didn't even matter that it was country music ;)

We walked around the Grace Pavillion and checked out all of the cool vendors. I bought Shane a birthday gift and some yummy donuts. Then we saw the photo guy where Ryan got these cute motorcycle pictures taken last year. We didn't want the same one, so the alternative was the Mexican Bandito!! You can't tell me this doesn't crack you up!

Here we are getting ready to ride the pony!

He was just a little excited!

Doesn't he look like a real cowboy?!?

Then the boys went on a couple of rides together...

Shane's first fast roller coaster type ride!

Watch as he goes from excited...

...to not so sure about this...

...to terrified and wanting it to stop!

Just then it started going in reverse...

Shane did go into the Glass House and Beach Fun House again after this...but no more fast rides!

Mission Complete!

It's been just over 5 months since this post when we first started potty training. It took a long time to get over that last hurdle, but he finally did it! SHANE IS POTTY TRAINED!!

We tried all sorts of bribes and rewards over those 5 months...but it didn't take long after buying a set of Iron Man figures that it happened. We put those and the toy guns that he loves sooo much up in this metal tree wall hanging we have in the dining room. He called it the "Poopy Tree." We told him as soon as he went in the potty like a big boy he could have all the toys in the Poopy Tree. He went up to it several times in those couple of days and would tell everyone about the Poopy Tree (which was pretty hilarious to have to explain to people) and then one day when I was taking a little nap on the couch he came in and told me he did it! Of course I didn't believe him since we've struggled for so long with this...but sure enough he did! With no help and no pressuring...he just went all on his own! Everyone said that is how it would happen, but I was still shocked. Hooray for Shane and hooray for no more diapers!!!!