It’s been a nice day.

Davey with his ribbon.  He loved it.  “Mommy, this is so everyone will know that I’m the birthday boy!”

Celebration decorations:

Davey tried to blow up balloons but he determined that he was too little to have enough air yet to be successful.

He wanted to hang up streamers.  He wanted 3 strips on either end of the railing.  “Because I am 3 Mommy!”

He did not like “all that smoke” from the candles.  (I’m thinking I better skip the candles on my cake if 3 and 1/2 candles are causing a smoke issue.)

He worked hard on blowing out the candles though.

Daddy and Davey:  Lovers of icing.

A present in not so fancy wrapping paper.  (One thing I forgot to get.)

happy 3 and 1/2 little Davey!

Tomorrow is Davey’s 1/2 birthday.  3 and 1/2.  We are having a party.  Today we went to get a cake, decorations and presents.  Davey was with us to help pick it all out.   After we picked out his cake, he decided that he wanted to have a celebration today as well.

So he said, “Daddy, we need to have an “Oklahoma 1/2 birthday”.   We have no idea where he got that.  He wanted us to have cake today as well.  We settled on choosing some cupcakes which we had this afternoon.

The Buzz Lightyear cupcake suffered a little damage on the trip home.

He likes to be involved in the party plans.  A little while ago I asked him what he wanted to eat.  “Mommy.  We don’t have time to talk about food!  We need to talk about the party! Like about Streamers!”

Tomorrow he will help me decorate for the “official” 1/2 birthday celebration.  We are going with a  Little Einsteins theme.

But for today, he enjoyed his cupcake.

And a picture with Daddy.

And with Mommy.  Davey was having a good ole goofy time.

I also got to do some knitting this weekend.  I am making headway on the Seaside Shawlette.  I was going to take a picture of it, but the lace is just all bunchy and I couldn’t get any kind of good picture.  It needs to be bound off and blocked before I will try that again.

I am just about finished with my “I-70” socks.  I finished one and got a good start on the second on our drive and visit in Oklahoma.  I love the self-striping and colors.  The colors of the socks have an almost faded look to them which reminds me of an old quilt.  I love old quilts.

Blogging was just interrupted by Davey.  He was eating goldfish and dumped them all on the floor.  Then David asked him to pick them up.  Next thing we see is him using his feet to grind them into a fine powder.

I figure I gotta post some stories where he’s getting into a little trouble too!

So I’ve been vacuuming up goldfish powder and Davey has been momentarily banished to his room.  He’s playing like crazy in there now and having a ball.  That’ll teach him!  Silly kid – just needed some downtime.

And so goes my final post about our trip to Oklahoma.

So one of the best things about going home was getting to see my brother and his wife.  We hadn’t seen them in almost two years.  They came home to help my parents move to northern Maine.  My mom and dad have lived in Oklahoma for almost my entire life, so this is a big change for all of us.

They lived on the lake so before they left, we made one last trek down to “Camp Three Sheets”.  I think my nieces bestowed this name on the rocky beach area below my parent’s house. (and I need to find out the inspiration for that name!)

Davey always enjoys throwing rocks and pretending to fish.  He likes hanging out with Mom.

He also enjoyed spending time with Aunt Holly.  They brought a souvenir piece of driftwood back up to the house.  I’m still not sure if this made it onto the moving truck.  I need to ask Holly.

Packing the truck wasn’t easy.  Now why am I saying that?  I contributed very very little.  I mostly observed. But the driveway leading to the house is on a very steep decline.  So the moving truck bottomed out before reaching the bottom.  They parked the truck as close to the bottom as they could, but then packing a truck on an incline was making for sliding boxes.  So they moved to the top of the hill stopping at the first level point.

Then everything went up the hill.

Egadz.

My dad took a little time out to play some Jenga with Davey.

And Davey took a last little walk around the house.

My mom is now en route and my dad is at the house with my brother and sister who are helping him get all moved in.  (They both live on the East Coast, but I’ve learned that they still do not live all that close to where my mom and dad will be!)

It will seem strange for awhile for them not to be in Oklahoma anymore, but they will love living in Maine.

I can’t let the Easter festivities go by without a few pictures of hunting Easter eggs.

Davey got to hunt eggs three times.  Well that’s not exactly true.  There were three “official” hunts.  There were  a lot more “unofficial” hunts which finally evolved to Davey saying, “Mommy, you and I will HIDE the eggs!  Then – you and I will find them!”  He thought that was great fun.  Hiding and finding!

When he hid the eggs, he liked to place them on similar colored surfaces.  So a blue and yellow egg was carefully wedged into place on a blue comforter which was next to a yellow pillowcase.   “Mommy, the eggs are camouflaged!”

There was an Easter egg hunt in our hometown on the day before Easter.  That was a lot of fun.  Davey hunted eggs with his cousin Addie.

On Easter we went to my aunt and uncle’s house.  My uncle is Greek, and it is a Greek tradition to dye Easter eggs red.  I loved how they looked, and my picture just does not do it justice.  I had to use the flash, and well it’s ok, but I just thought the bowl of red eggs was just so striking.

Easter was a very rainy day, so we had to hide Easter eggs inside.  Davey’s cousins Paige and Alana were so nice to hide eggs for him.  He loved it.

I didn’t have much success taking good Easter egg hunting pictures inside.  Here’s Davey after the hunt.

He did one final hunt with his cousin Addie.

Actually it was one hunt + 20 more “I want to hide them and find them Mommy” hunts!

Davey spent time with so much family this weekend.  It was great for him.  He became the master of the SUPERHUG!   His superhugs can get a little crazy.  They have a lot of Squeeze to them!

A superhug for my sister-in-law Holly:

There was a superhug for my brother!

Davey was also the recipient of superhugs- here he was getting one from his Uncle Johnny.

I love Davey’s grin in profile too!

We hadn’t seen Michael and Holly in almost two years so I was smiling to see them getting to spend some time with Davey.

It’s been quite an Easter weekend.  We’re actually still in Oklahoma and won’t return to Colorado until tomorrow.  We are having a quiet day after several very busy ones.  I thought I’d spend some time blogging.  I always miss it when I take a couple of days off.

I’ve started going through all the pictures I’ve taken.  This may be a problem.  I took a lot of pictures.  I’ve become rather overwhelmed.  I think I’m going to write several smaller posts instead of a big ole ginormous post.  There are so many small moments that I’d like to remember!

For example, this game was so simple, but Davey had so much fun playing it over and over.  I’ll call it Bat and Ball.  It involves a big plastic bat and a big plastic ball.

It goes like this.

David took the bat.

He tossed the ball, swung and hit the ball with a mighty whack!  The objective was to hit it over the house.

Then.  Davey and David ran as fast as they could go around to the other side of the house.

It was about 92 on this day.  (The rest of the trip has been rainy and cool.)

Davey would scurry around looking for the ball.

Davey would find the ball.

And they started again.

Simple game = Such fun!