Superhero Birthday Party-Part 3

Part 3..Food and Presents

Owen showing Papa his Batcave before the party started

Papa getting his baby fix by holding cousin Adeline

Owen's dad David sporting his little brother's cape

 Happy Birthday Owen

Sidenote: These were amazing cupcakes!! I got the recipe here.

Samuel assisting Owen is present opening.

Inside this box was the most amazing bunkbed tent made by Jeremy's mom.  It needs a separate post to show it's awesomeness.

Papa and Nana gave Owen a big boy bike.  He has yet to sit on it...he's scared of it currently and says he'll ride it when he is bigger.

 The party was so much fun and we appreciate all the family and friends who came to love on Owen for his birthday.  You made him feel special and loved!

Superhero Birthday Party-Part 2

Superhero birthday continued...Games!

As the party guests arrived, they were escorted into the playroom to create their own superhero cape.  I had pre-cut felt capes and the first initial of their name. On the table, I left stencils and a variety of felt for them to decorate their capes.

Then they proceeded to the backyard, to not 1 but 2 bouncy houses! We're thankful that my sis-in-law and co-worker both have one and were willing to share it with us.  Sadly it started to rain early on in the party and we had to deflate them.

 The littlest ones loved the sand table.

Owen, Owen, and Samuel all wore their Superman shirts.

After everyone arrived, we played Vaporize the Villains   I taped up some pictures of bad guys and gave the kids their own can of silly string.  The kids used their sprays to cover the villains.

Then the Lee turned the spray on us. :)

Sweet Faith admiring her handiwork.

Superhero Birthday Party-Part 1

Over the last month, Owen has become more interested in superheros. We hadn't really ever seen any shows or read that many books with them in them, so he must have learned about them at school.

When I asked Owen what kind of birthday party he wanted, he went back and forth between Cars and superheros.  Finally a couple of weeks before his birthday, I finally made him commit. Superheros it was! Thanks to Pinterest we had an awesome superhero party!

The invites...I found these SUPER cute superhero drawings on this blog and Jeremy customized it with Owen's hair color and O chest shield.  I thought Jeremy did an awesome job with these invites!

Drawing by Mariah DeMarco, customized by Jeremy Cox

Because we took so many pictures, we will have to break the party up into a couple of blog posts. First post... decorations and food.

Wal-mart actually had this generic superhero birthday banner for $2 with matching plates and napkins.  Score!

The table

Jeremy made some cute signs inspired by ones I found on Pinterest. My lovely Silhouette cut them all out. :)

Super O cupcakes..again with the help of Designer Dad and Silhouette

 We made signs like this to hang around the back porch

The Power Punch (lime punch recipe from my Ma-Ma) and sweet tea. (Forgot to take a picture until near the end..hence the half empty containers.)

Next post..party games.

Celebrating Owen

Owen turned 4 on Friday, the 28th! I have a special post all about this milestone coming up, but for now here's how we celebrated the big day.

He woke up early and excited that it was his special day.  He wanted to open his present immediately upon waking up, but luckily Jeremy convinced him to wait until Oliver and I woke up.

Due to his new love for superheroes, we decided to give him an Imaginext Batcave. Oh boy does he love that thing! He played with it every free minute he had on Friday. He continues to play with it every day since he got it.

So anxious to open his present.

Sadly he opened upside down. :) But he loved it all the same.

I asked Owen if he wanted to me take a special treat for his preschool class and he quickly chimed in that he wanted pumpkin chocolate chip muffins (a boy after my own heart!).  I quickly obliged and baked up some little muffins to send in for snack.  I snuck into his room during their snack, but sadly missed them singing him happy birthday.  He refused to wear his birthday crown for some reason. :(

Waiting in carline with his friends with a birthday hat from Gavin's mom

For dinner, Owen chose Smashburger and YoForia for dessert. It was very yummy evening!

After dinner he got to come home and watch a movie before bed.  He had a great day and I hope he felt very celebrated.  We love our little guy so much and are so thankful God gave us him 4 years ago!

Owen Goes To Preschool

Last year was my first year teaching the Morrison YMCA's Children's Academy.  One perk of working at the Y is that the boys got to go to their free staff childcare program.  While the program is great, it's not as structured and as academic as preschool  

I'm excited this year Owen is actually a student at the Academy! He is going Monday, Wednesday, and Friday.  Because of his birthday is in the 3s class right beside me (I teach the 4s).  

September 10th was his first day of school and of course, I had to have the first day of school pics. Thanks to my sweet husband for creating this chalkboard for him to hold!

One perk of working there is that I get to peak in on him in his classroom.  Here he was decorating his name tag.

After school, he was all smiles.  He climbed in this tree by the parking lot and asked me to take his picture. :)

He loves preschool!! Every day he is so excited to show me what he has done and tell me what he has done. I'm so thankful he loves school!

Labor Day weekend 2012

We enjoyed having a nice long weekend to hang out with one another and enjoy the last days of summer before school started.

Labor Day marked the beginning of football season.  Owen commemorated the day by dressing up in his Tar Heel football uniform. Though we couldn't be there in person, we watched it on tv.

Being that we live in NC, it was still really hot! The boys enjoyed playing in the sprinkler together in the backyard while Daddy did some projects in the backyard. I even joined in!

We were supposed to have a small group cookout over at our house and everyone kind of backed out last minute. We did have the other Cox family over for dinner and the kids played in a bounce house we borrowed from a co-worker. (I can't seem to find the pictures though.)

It was a great end to the busy summer!