you're killing me smalls.....

remember the movie, "the sandlot"?  

we have our own version of "squints" living with us....

and his female version sidekick....

after seeing "toy story 3" last week austen latched on to the 3-d glasses instead of recycling them at the theatre...i wasn't sure why he wanted me to put masking tape on the frames, but when he put them on, we laughed and laughed.  

if you haven't seen the movie, rent it!!  it's wonderful...

he wanted to wear these to tessa's birthday party last saturday because he is always looking to get a laugh and he ended up wearing them the entire time.  

except when scarlett got her hands on them...

happy birthday my little tessa-butt!!!

it was an adorable farm themed birthday party with cow patterned balloons

and a real barn....(with a bubble machine in the loft)

hay, what's going on here?

a hayride...

where there was more hay outside the wagon, than inside, because throwing hay is just so much fun....

there was a farm animal themed cake, too.

i can't believe that you are three already...

we had to light the candles 5 times because she kept wanting to blow them out...

needless to say, i did not have any of that spit factory cake :P

but i did have one of these dirt cakes.  see? nice and germ free :D

they played an egg on the spoon race..

with raw eggs...but why worry when you have this beast to clean up after the little ones..

he actually loves raw eggs, so i guess i'll never be able to have a chicken coop in my yard.

then they played "eat the donut off of the string without touching it with your hands"

that was fun...

'tho, she cheated a little bit....

a nice and messy game...but cute results!!!

let's just call it fairy dust, shall we?

then squints drove his 72 year old grandmother around in the go cart...

and since it didn't faze me that i let my 13 year old drive my mother around in a death-trap vehicle, i thought i''d let him drive me around in the go-cart too!

but i wanted proof that i would actually take that chance myself, so i asked don to take some pictures of me in the go-cart.

heh!!!  what the heck was i thinking????

this is what i got when i handed him the camera....

and the best picture yet??   sigh!!!

isn't he cute???

champ managed to entertain us during the party,

but i think he entertained himself even more!!!!

:D