Disneyland

We took Sully to Disneyland for the first time for his fourth birthday. My folks, sister, bro-in-law, best friend and her fiance all joined us. I couldn't ride any of the good rides, so that was awesome. I was banished to Small World and other "safe" rides. Whatever, my sister and I rocked Small World.

Sully had a great time, hasn't stopped talking about it in two months and asks at least once a week when we're going back. His favorite ride was the Toy Story ride, least favorite, The Jungle Cruise (he cried, a lot.) I'm pretty sure he ate nothing but sugar all day. And he of course loved Radiator Springs. I'll never forget his face when he "met" Lightning McQueen and Mater. He would go and live there if he could.

It was a great day, and I'm  glad we waited so long to take him because he'll actually be able to remember some of it, or maybe all of it. And thanks to everyone who joined us for the day! It was a blast.

Memorial Day Camping

We went camping to our go-to up in Malibu Creek for Memorial Day with my sister, brother-in-law and his brother. I didn't take my big camera, mainly because we've been there so many times before the pictures just all start to look the same.

The boys did their seafood cookout over the campfire which has now become a bit of a tradition. Fresh seafood, lemon, some spices and a giant fire pit. Delicious. We relaxed, hung around the campfire, made some awesome camp breakfasts and napped, which was lovely. We played, flew kites, hiked up to the rock pond/lake for lunch and of course made s'mores.

Shaun and I stayed up one night with Sully by the fire watching the stars when Shaun spotted an adorable rabbit in our camp. We watched him for quite awhile hopping around, eating and aw'ing over him and the beauty of nature. Yeh, so the next morning my sister came to our tent saying a gutted rabbit was in our camp by the fire pit. The first thing I said to Shaun was "Oh my god, we outed that poor rabbit!". I felt awful! Shaun graciously removed him from camp. Nature man, nature.

I was also greeted by a coyote one night running around the camp grounds on one of my nightly hikes to go pee. I actually said "Shoo" like it was my dog without flinching. I was more worried about peeing myself than I was him. Pregnancy bladder and camping at night do not mix well.

And of course, Sully cried when we had to leave. My kid would live in a tent if I would let him.

H.o.c.k.e.y

... I love hockey till the day I die, hey!

Daddy did good this birthday. He scored us seats about 8 rows up to a hockey game that had Sully's two favorite teams playing each other. Sully's little bff happens to have an uncle who plays on the Columbus Blue Jackets. Because of this, they have become Sully's second favorite team, behind the Kings of course.

We didn't tell him until right before we were going. And he didn't know who the Kings were playing. Seriously, I thought his little head was going to explode. He didn't know who  to cheer for!

We had a couple of cute girls behind us that doted on Sully the entire night. Their mom gave him fruit snacks.  He ended up on the jumbo tron screen dancing with the girls behind him. We saw his coach, Coach Pat from hockey there  that night. And he got something we never, ever, ever give him .... soda.

It seriously unleashed the beast.

Oh and we won. And daddy got street food. And Sully left with a major sugar buzz and hockey high.

I think it was a solid birthday present.

Sully's 4th birthday

This year we bypassed having a big party since we were taking Sully to a Kings game and Disneyland within the same week of each other. I still wanted to do a little something on his actual birthday though, so we had my family over, a few friends and our neighbors across the street whose son happens to be Sully's bff.

It was nice and low-key being able to hang out with everyone instead of running around like maniacs trying to prepare for a large crowd. Seriously, it was so much nicer.

The jersey. This tradition started when I was 20 weeks pregnant and we found out we were having a little boy. The first thing Shaun ever bought was a L.A. Kings baby onesie for him. Since then, every year on his birthday Shaun has bought Sully a new jersey with the coordinating year of his age. Its really cool to see them all lined up on his wall as he's getting older. 

Hockey cupcakes for school!

A little morning pick up game the day of his birthday with his BFF. 

My creeper mom and sister photo bombing Sully's cake picture. He wanted a Thomas Cake. We usually make his cake, but to save time I bought it. $40.00 for this little thing! Never again

Everyone singing happy birthday to the birthday boy. Four, I can't believe it!

Sully's first book

Sully went through a phase where all he wanted me to do was write down his "stories". We ended up having a lot in various places around the house. I was afraid they would get thrown away or lost and wanted a fun way to be able to remember them. I ended up putting together a book of all his "stories" paired with either his art or pictures of him.

The end result .... a really cute book full of all of his ideas. He even has a "About The Author Page" in the back with questions he answered about himself. We ended up with about 10 individual mini stories. I love how it turned out.

Oh and the name of the book? Well, every-single-story he tells always ends the same way ... "And that's the end." So, that's the title.

I found it fitting.

Around our house lately ...

Sully's loot from our park 

Plus a crap-ton of glue ... 

Makes art! Sadly I have no of the final product which included an entire bottle of glitter dumped on top of it as the finishing touch. Tia Yessica would be so proud. 

We've been practicing spelling, vowels and consonants at home. 

And building towers with daddy's shaving cream and foam blocks. 

And making whatever this thing is to eat. 

We've been building forts (We're big fans of pajamas ...)

And train towns even though my husband likes to point out I should never become a engineer because my trains can only ever come one way in. There ain't no way out in this train town!

We like turning ANYTHING into hockey.

And playing hockey with hockey guys.

We hung out as pirates one day ... 

And even made our very own map and basket boat.

We've been chillin like villians with this lil dude up the street in our new cars ..