Small Fry Saturday Shenanigans

Saturday Small Fry Shifts:

AM shift - small fry babies for an morning and afternoon of photos and fun while mom and dad packed up their house with the older siblings help.

PM shift - larger small fry for Legos, dinner and dessert while grandparents went out to dinner (parents in Mexico - the dogs!)

Here's a glance at the AM shift:
Yes, the 18 month old adores Ingrate Bastard. She immediately "greets" him upon her arrival, as shown above. Then it was on to more important matters for her...the taste testing of toys.

Some frustration getting the wind up toys to wind up for her:

Then more quality time with Ingrate:

Then toy tasting again:

I managed to wrangle some time to get the girls photos going and this next shot I consider the winner of the day:

Both girls were wearing vintage 1900's baby dresses for the photos:

But of course, the baby threw up on hers, so it was back to naked or nowadays clothing once again:

A little lunch for the misses:

Then a few more photos and some playtime:

The small fry left around 3:30, which gave me one hour to prepare for the next onslaught:

I decided to keep dinner simple, with lunchables and Dr Pepper:

An evening of Legos. In one corner, the four year old was making this incredibly layered and complex mosaic of one and two peg Legos only. How do I know it was incredibly layered? Cause it took me 30 minutes to dismantle it later on!

Look how proud he is of it!

In the next corner, the newly crowned 7 year old was more interested in making a haunted jail type building with traps and weapons that SpongeBob Squarepants was being held in:

Complete with dynamite trap, motorcycle with attached video camera and trap door in ROOF:

While over in this corner we have the 9 year old animal lover, constructing a park and jungle type thing, complete with TV news cameras capturing a snake escape that caused mass havoc among the Lego people:

Then, to bring the day to a stunning conclusion, I held a "make your own" ice cream sundae dessert for the kids:

Yeah, the sundaes were incredible all right. The kids were all talk and no show however:

The sad results of over engineering the whole ice cream sundae thing:

A little more Lego time and I finally kicked them out about 8pm. And by kicked out, I mean DRAGGED THEM to my car to deliver them back home.

The great snake escape, 2010:

This photo brought to you by the 7 year old, who commanded I take the photo, add the "vs" and the bar, and publish to my blog for him to see:The whole shebang, in one shot:

After a couple hours spent dismantling and storing Legos, it was time for Auntie to go to bed already!

Rainy Day Birthday for a young man

Of course I had to test out the new Flip video camera on the kids!

My, how quickly children age nowadays!
It's Saturday, so it must be time for another birthday party for one of the niece and nephew tribe. All kids love mustaches right? Well, take a look for yourself:

I bought a package of costume mustaches for the goody bags, and they supplied the kids with a lot of fun. What was even more fun was torturing the innocent toddlers and infants with the mustaches:

Since the party was at the pizza parlor, the usual begging for quarters to feed their unsavory gambling habits started up right away:

Then it was time for a bit of pizza:

some people were distracted by the gambling mecca across the room:

Others not so much:

A little tomfoolery while awaiting the present dive:

and then it was on...oh which one should the boy tear into first?

This kid is the only one I've ever seen that actually READS the card that comes with the gift! This tended to annoy the other children, who got tired of waiting for the boy to shred into his gifts as they do.

Some more tomfoolery while awaiting the next activity:

Once the kids realized that we adults really WERE completely out of quarters (purses HAD been searched, after all), they demanded we become tattoo parlor slaves and presented their various body parts for instant application of their hard won prizes:

Then it was time to dig into the cake! Designed AND baked by the parents, it was a sight to behold...some kind of wheel track thingy having to do with Super Mario Brothers:Of course, a little adult tomfoolery was in the works via "trick candles":

The kid has a great sense of humor and laughed it off, then prepared to divvy up the cake...fairly of course:

And here is a singing group not quite ready for American Idol, but good enough to sing some Happy Birthday wishes to the birthday boy: