Colin's Birthday

Our little Colin turned four this week. We took a tour with the Embassy of an olive oil factory the day after his birthday. Colin loved seeing the machines that smashed and mixed the olives.

It is fun living abroad because you always find neat things in the host country that you can incorporate into your own traditions. Here is our latest discovery, Jordanians have fireworks on top of their cakes (wedding, birthday, etc). We did a trial run on his actual birthday and it was a huge hit. Shelley made him two ice cream cakes, one for the family on the 10th and one for his party that weekend. Both were balls because Colin LOVES all sports. He is our little jock. We are thinking of sticking these fireworks all over the turkey for Thanksgiving! What do you think?

Party Time! We invited a few families who have kids Colin's age. They played sports-themed games and we had a barbeque. We made all the kids eat in the sunroom off the kitchen. It made for easy clean-up since you can practically hose-down the mess onto the patio.

We cannot have a birthday party for Colin without a pinata! He is our pinata boy. They were so cheap in Mexico we use to buy them for toys for Colin. We would tie one up in the backyard when he was two years old and he would hit it for weeks till there was nothing left. This one came in our shipment and it was hard for Colin to wait for the big day (thus the tape job to keep it together where he had gotten to it). We taught his new friends the "pinata song" in Spanish and it was pretty cute listening to them all sing their best version.

Cake #2! We started with real candles and then put on the fireworks. The kids were all so excited that we did not get any pictures since we were both trying to keep the kids away from the fireworks.

Funny moment: We did the pinata first so Colin was already eating candy when it was time for cake. We sang to him and no one noticed he was eating a taffy when it was time to blow out the candles. He blew and the candy went flying across the room! All the kids could not stop laughing. Colin of course wanted the candy retrieved for further enjoyment and did not even notice everyone laughing at him!

We sure love our Curby! He is at a fun age. He is either making us laugh or driving us crazy. He is full of energy and never stops moving. He still LOVES to eat and when he is not eating he likes to pretend to be cooking and eating. The latest thing he does is he pretends to prepare the Sacrament (from church) while playing in the sand box. He will say a pray and bless the bread and water (his sand toys) and then pretend to partake. It is pretty funny.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY CURBSTER!