Kolbe's Birthday Party!!!

This present is as big as he is. I think it was an articulated truck full of hot wheels cars. Kolbe got some books, trucks, clothes, a big wheel, sleeping bag, bubbles, a ball, AND...Yum, yum, GUM! Since Kolbe is 4 we are trying gum again. After a few gum incidents gum was banned until age 3, then 3.5, then 4. So we'll see if this time the gum can stay in the mouth and out of hair, carseats, pockets, etc! He got about 15 packs from Gma B and he is burning right through them. So far he has taken the gum out twice and Libby has snatched it up both times and immediately swallowed it. Here is the cake Kolbe aided in designing. He helped make a sketch of a construction site and told me where to put the vehicles.
After Kolbe blew out his candles the kids played with the vehicles and moved them around in the "dirt" - oreo cookies.
The kids had a ton of fun playing together at the party. They played on the swingset, pulled each other around in the wagon, rode trikes, and squirted each other with water guns.

Jeff has been moving all of the things out of his classroom. Somewhere he got a hold of a dreidel pinata. Yes a dreidel pinata. You know there is a large population of Jewish Mexican children that need dreidel pinatas. HA! Jeff stuffed it with candy and the kids took a couple of whacks. They could have cared less that it was a dreidel, but some of the adults did a double take. Allyssa grabed whatever she could, Kolbe picked out only the smarties, Addison picked up one piece and started to eat it, and Libby picked up a piece for her bag then a piece for Addison's bag, then another piece for her bag and so on.

Amazing how much fun kids can have from 25 cent water guns and a second-hand dreidel pinata.