Flashback Friday: Happy Birthday Mr. No!

Mr. No's birthday was actually yesterday and I cannot believe my little baby is 4 years old!  Why does the time go by so quickly?!?  I love my sassy-mouthed, always helpful, crazy, loud, silly, dancing in the movie theatre to the Muppets, adorable little man but I do miss my quiet, always happy, spit-uppy, snuggly little baby.  So here are Mr. No's first photos...Happy Birthday Mr. No!

first photo!

seeing Dad for the first time

1 day old (exactly 4 years ago!)

finally home!

A Little Fall Fun, Part 1

Mr. No had a pretty fun October.  Little outings here and there and a lot of outdoor time.  We had an insane October weather-wise, everything from a freak snowstorm that knocked out our power for 5 days to 70+ degree weather. I realized this year that I really am old now when we got oour first snowflakes.  My reaction:  Snow?!?  EW!!!  Mr. No's reaction?  Snow!!! WHEE!!!  Yeah, I want to be a little kid again.

His October started with a fun (and super chilly) trip to Tougas Farm with his preschool for apple and pumpkin picking.  He was super excited especially since we were able to go with him.

This year was Mr. No's first time really playing in piles of leaves.  I moved one pile over for about 3 days so he could get a lot of fun out of it since there weren't too many leaves yet.  His favorite part was playing hide and seek with his dino-roars!

Then there was the excitement of Halloween!  (Which ended up being postponed due to the evil snow.)  It was horrible trying to get him to pick out a costume.  He just didn't even know where to begin.  Mr. No and I did our tradition of pumpkin painting together.  I have no idea how to carve a pumpkin and wouldn't really want to do that with Mr. No anyway.  At least with painting, his pumpkin is 100% his creation.  He ended up making a super cute monster pumpkin. and silly little pumpkin.  Then, of course, we decorated his room with leaf ghosts we made and glow in the dark gel clings on the windows, spiderwebs with spiders and bats and more paper ghosts above the windows. 

Monster Pumpkin!

decorating with Scooby Doo

There will be more Fall Fun next time...chalk drawings and soccer poses.  Catching up very slowly.  If only I didn't fall asleep at 9pm last night...

Stealing H's Computer

H doesn't quite realize it yet but I'm now taking over his computer.  I finally got the basic programs on here to get my photos from my camera to the internet!  Yay!  He has barely any space on this thing but it will work until I give in and buy a new one.  Since I'm writing this mostly for Mr. No, I have a few outings and adventures to catch up on. So here (finally!) are the photos of our trip to Kid City in Connecticut.  Kid City is my favorite kid's museum so far.  We still have to get up the nerve to travel into Boston to check out that one, though.  I just love the interesting little rooms in Kid City, the gorgeous murals and how everything is kept clean.  And, as if they had to make it any better, they just installed at least 1 toilet seat that has a kid sized seat in the lid that folds down.  So no panicky potty trips for Mr. No!  Fabulous!

As usual, we started our fun in the alien room.  The museum was wonderfully deserted so Mr. No could play without worrying about other kids taking over.  I think we saw 3 families the entire time we were there.  It was wonderful!  I know I sound terrible but every time we go anywhere for kids there is always that one family where the mom is on the phone gabbing away while her children (usually at least 3) are running around terrorizing other children and/or destroying the place.  I have no patience for that kind of parent.  Rant over.  Moving on to Mr. No's fun!

driving Daddy for once

And, of course, H has to  play just as much as Mr. No does!

Mr. No wasn't too much into the alien room that day.  He was getting over one of the many colds he's brought home from preschool so he wasn't as rambunctious as usual.   He and I did have fun in the farm room, though, sending the apples up and down. He absolutely loved the fish/ship room this time.  We typically barely spend any time in that room but this day, he loved it!

watching the fish he put up fall into the barrel

The kitchen and store room was crowded with 2 families and, since he has a pretty decent set up at home now, Mr. No wasn't all that interested.  He really wanted to go upstairs and play with the dinosaurs.  All 3 of us had a blast playing all over the upstairs which was deserted.

Mr. No and I spent a lot of time farming carrots

watching the trains (he used to be afraid to go in there)

teeter totter with H

he did NOT want to go down the slide...looks like he hated it doesn't he?

H was all about the musical wall

H and Mr. No had a nice quiet time in the older kids corner and poor Mr. No started getting sleepy but he wasn't ready to go yet.  He checked out a few more rooms, returned to the trains and dinosaurs and then finally consented to go.  Poor kid was exhausted and passed out before we left the parking lot.

Luckily I didn't take too many photos last month, since I wasn't sure if I'd have a place to put them or not.  Just a few fun days more to document for Mr. No before the fun times of Thanksgiving, Mr. No's 4th birthday and his 4th birthday party.

Grrrr

I am so mad! Apparently, I downloaded a virus when I downloaded one of the pre-k lesson packs for Mr. No and now I supposedly need a new hard drive. Good thing I backed up all my photos and movies on my external hard drive!!! H's computer is acting weird now too but it may only be the video card which would be an easy fix since he can just take it from my now broken computer. At least if that works, I can put new photos on his and move them to the external hard drive. But, for now, all I have are iPhone photos. So here are our shadows outside the Kid City children's museum in CT today. Mr. No had a fabulous time and hopefully I'll eventually be able to post the photos.

A Lazy Sunday

Since this is a blog all about Mr. No's adventures, I figured I'd do a day in the life a Mr. No through pictures.  We were stuck in the house this Sunday since my car won't start and poor Mr. No had yet another cold so what else were we going to do? We played and played and played and I took photos of most of it.

after breakfast, game time

showing me how it's done

arranging his cherries...he likes them to be stem down

stamp marker art

Can you tell who the good guy is?  the ogre!

"Hello, Mr. Grocer!"

excited by the orange juice! then attacked me with it...

shopping for donuts for Daddy

time to check out

setting up a picnic munch for us...orange juice, lemon pudding, tomatoes and frosting...Yum!

lunch time! Annie's bunnies and carrots

yummy!

and a Mr. No-made Halloween cookie for dessert

multitasking

puzzles in the reading nook

flip-o-saurus is a lot of fun, too

oh, the bug books!

waiting for me to start the books

Easter Bugs!

he tells me to throw the Voltron part to him and then he panics

sneaky Mr. No

attacking our car, Braden, with stuffed animals

checking his pennies just like H does

looking so sweet passed out on H

back to the kitchen room...attacking me with magic soap

more magic potions

tried to get a photo of him with the ponytail that Auntie made but he got mad

attacking me for trying to get a picture of his humiliation

attacking me!  Auntie Lyssa took the picture

Papa's cookies for dessert and glasses of "juice" for everyone!

Piper dog in trouble as usual

being silly in the bathtub

look at those lashes!

all ready for Mama and Mr. No movie time before bed.  tonight's movie:  Toy Story 2

So there's a little glimpse into a lazy Sunday in Mr. No's life.  I was so exhausted from playing all day that I fell asleep during the movie.  Mr. No made it to the end and beyond.  Of course he did have that awesome nap.