Ella's Birthday Party

One of Gavin's friends from school, Ella, had a birthday party.  She and Gavin had so much fun together (read: they were so silly together) in the Cat Room that they sometimes had to be separated!

Ella's party had a Hawaiian theme - hence, the lei's and palm tree decorations

They took turns pushing each other on this tractor:

Playing on the neighbor's play-set:

Gavin helped get gifts ready for Ella to open:

A new Bolt dog:

And, when all else fails, hit an inflatable tree.  This is typical silliness for these two:

Birthday Party

Gavin has had a busy social calendar this month!  We went to the first of three friends' birthday parties the other weekend.  It was Wilderness Falls mini-golf, to celebrate our twins buddies Felix and Pierres' 5th birthday!

Gavin had a great time zipping through the course, and wants to go again.

My favorite blue-eyed boy:

After golf, the kids played in the arcade.  Gavin's favorite was Dance Dance Revolution.  I didn't even put tokens in - he just jumped and danced like a pro:

Spinning the wheel to see how many tokens you'd get (really, all the kids got the same, but they all wanted to take a spin):

Here's Gavin in action:

I didn't get any pictures of the birthday boys, but we had a great time!

County Fair

We knew that the DuPage County Fair has a demolition derby every summer, but we never went before because it conflicted with naps.

Now that Gavin is long done with napping, we decided to go this year.  We figured he would LOVE to see cars crashing.

When we first arrived, he and Francis rode on the merry-go-round:

Then we got to the derby track.  Gavin surveyed the scene:

And this is the position he quickly adopted!

When the cars started revving their engines, he covered his ears and said he wanted to leave. I tried to tell him we weren't leaving until we saw some crashes, but he was in tears before they even got started.

I took him out of the track area and we waited for Francis and Nana and Grandpa.  He didn't want to do anything else at the fair - once he heard all that noise, he was done.