Dillon's Mario Party

When we moved here he was 17 mos. old.

Now he can read.

He grew too fast.

Dillon chose a Dinosaur party for his birthday this year, 

and then two weeks ago he changed his mind and asked for a Mario party.  

I bought yellow wrapping paper and turned his presents into "mystery boxes".

Since I wrapped all the presents from the grandparents, everything matched ;o)

I made a stencil and used powdered sugar to do the same thing to our French toast this morning.

I sent the boys on a treasure hunt  to rescue the princess (details in the following post).

I looked everywhere for brown balloons to make goomba's, but had to settle for orange.

The boys had to jump on the "guys" just like in the video game.

The cupcakes are supposed to be 1-up mushrooms.

I printed out Mario labels for the Kool-aid bottles, and painted polka dots on hard boiled "Yoshi" eggs.

Dillon chose ravioli for dinner.  He would eat ravioli every day if we let him.

Oh, how I love this boy.

Sometimes he signs his name, "dilrob"  (short for Dillon Robert).

When I drop him off at kindergarten every day, he turns around and signs "I love you" with his hand.

Sunshine comes out of his eyes.

He is the best big brother EVER.  

A couple weeks ago we moved the baby into his crib in Dillon's room.  After a few nights, we noticed that Dillon was sleeping with three pillows under his head, so that he was almost sitting up to sleep.  I figured it was a "boy thing" and just went into his room before I went to bed every night to remove the extra pillows.  Todd finally asked him why he was using so many pillows, and he replied:

"So Justin could see me from his crib and not cry."