25 Questions

This year I decided we'd start a new tradition and come up with a list of 25 questions to ask the kids each year on their birthday (I stole this idea from a friend). We are a couple weeks late but it's been crazy around here with Carson's birthday party, traveling to Chicago with Ryan for work, and then 3/4 of our family getting the stomach flu. But I will try to remember each year on his birthday to ask these questions. It will be neat to see how they change from year to year.



So, here are the questions with each of Carson's answers.


1. What is your favorite book?
A: Thomas

2. What is your favorite movie?
A: Polar Express

3. What is your favorite food?
A: Cottage Cheese

4. What is your favorite TV show?
A: SuperWhy

5. How did you like being three years old?
A: I wanna be four.

6. What is your favorite color?
A: Green

7. What is your favorite treat?
A: Suckers

8. What is your favorite song?
A: The Thomas song

9. What do you want to be when you grow up?
A: Train Engine

10. What is your least favorite food?
A: I don't like meat.

11. What do you want to do when you're four? (Goals?)
A: Play a game on my Leap Frog.

12. What is your favorite thing to do with Mommy?
A: Play Zingo

13. What is your favorite thing to do with Daddy?
A: Play Indiana Jones

14. What is your favorite thing to do at school?
A: Play trains.

15. What is something Mommy always says to you?
A: Good morning!

16. What is something Daddy always says to you?
A: Go to bed.

17. Where is your favorite place to go?
A: This way (pointing to the left).

18. What makes you laugh?
A: The robot panda.

19. What is your nickname?
A: Car-Car

20. What is your favorite toy?
A: Big Thomas

21. What makes you sad?
A: The garbage truck - something's wrong with the batteries.

22. What makes you scared?
A: The dark.

23. What is your favorite thing to do outside?
A: Make snowman and snow castle.

24. What is your favorite fruit?
A: Grapes

25. What is your favorite restaurant?
A: Red Robin

Carson Turns 4!

Carson just turned 4 and we celebrated by having a Robot Birthday Party for him! There were 5 boys that came to the party and what a fun time we had! Everything was Robot-themed!

This utensil holder is made out of empty soup cans and one big formula can.



All the food even had a robot theme to it.



Here's what we served:

Computer Chips - Potato Chips
Memory Cells - Cheese Puffs
Nuts and Bolts - homemade Chex Mix
Robot Energy - Fruit and Veggie Trays
Battery Cells - M&M's
Machine Oil - Juice Boxes
Fuel Cake - Cupcakes
Robot Pizza - Pizza









Each child got to color their own robot.





We played Robot BINGO.









Next we played "Pin the Battery on the Robot". Each child was blindfolded with a scarf, turned around 3 times, and asked to stick a Post-It note with their name on it onto the robot to see who could get closest to the battery.





And last, we played Musical Robots. This is similar to the game Musical Chairs but I had taped pictures of Robots onto the floor and the kids had to keep walking in a circle, stepping on the robots while the music was playing. Once the music stopped, whoever was standing on the robot that said WINNER got to pick out a prize. We kept playing this game until each child had a chance to win.





Even the party favors were made out of empty soup cans!



Here's Carson blowing out his "4" candle! Happy Birthday buddy!



He had such a fun time opening presents and playing with all of his friends!

Hiatt New Year's Eve

We traveled to Mom & Dad's house to celebrate Christmas on New Year's Eve. We had a Christmas/New Year's Eve party all in the same night! We decided to have Appetizers galore for dinner that night. Everything was so good! Then the kids were excited to open up all the presents!









Here is a barn that Dad made for Carson. What an awesome Christmas gift! I can see him playing with this for hours! It even came with a gator, "just like Grandpa's" as Carson would say!





After presents we played some adult games. One included searching for safety pins in a bowl of uncooked rice (while blind-folded). Who knew that would be so difficult!!! It was a lot of fun watching everyone give it a try. Kim won by finding 10 pins in one minute. There were over 100 in the bowl but it was a very tricky game.



We also played Christmas Bingo and a guessing/feeling game of what was inside of a Christmas stocking.

The following day we even managed to get some really good shots of all the grandkids. This one is my favorite!