Go Kaitlyn! Party like it's your 4th Birthday!!!

Even without a big birthday party, Kaitlyn's birthday seems to go on for like 4 days! Saturday, her and Daddy picked out a new Trek bike (I think he's got motives with the new bike, he wants Kaitlyn to have an edge over the other kids for the trike-a-thon) Sunday, Kaitlyn enjoying her 1st cake...

Grammy & Pop Pop, Uncle Ryan came over for a birthday bbq, and the Vialpando tradition of B.R. ice-cream cake - yummo!!!

Kaitlyn strutting her stuff, with her new boat outfit!!!

Today, at school...the entire school came out to sing a couple of songs to her, including Happy Birthday - she LOVED it, imagine that!

Kaitlyn with her school friends having a party and snacks.

Kaitlyn, Emily, Kylee - the girls!

I couldn't fit any more pics, otherwise I would have put the picture of Kaitlyn truely enjoying her Leatherby's ice-cream clown with Grandma and Grandpa! She got chocolate ice-cream and managed to get it all over face, the table, her pants, and the booth. Kaitlyn really enjoyed her birthday these last 4 days!!!

The Jelly Belly Factory for our Little Jelly Belly's

We met up with the Roberts Clan (minus Vernie - who was missed...read on we could have used the extra hands - lol) at The Jelly Belly Factory in Fairfield on Tuesday...it really was time, I mean com'mon I hadn't even seen Kira - who is already 2 months old - Ridiculous! We had a great time corraling 4 kids on feet, and 1 kid in the sling on the tour of the factory, which by the way was pretty interesting. Did you know it takes an entire week to make a jelly belly bean, or that they use 100,000 lbs. of sugar a day, not very south beach diet friendly!!!

We enjoyed the beautiful sunny day having a lunch out on the patio with the kids...that is until Melanie had to take Mason to the bathroom, leaving me with 4 children to watch over. Maile and Kaitlyn were having a ball playing keep away from Alison, and Alison was just content with chasing them back and forth...little Kira was an angel just cooing away as I got my baby fix....then, all hell broke loose when Kaitlyn announced she had to go poop...I told her to wait until Melanie got back...she tried but she really had to go! So without all the details, just imagine me, holding baby Kira in one hand, practically dragging Alison in the other (because of course she didn't see the reason why she should have to come along), and telling Kaitlyn "hold it we're alomst there" with Maile in tow, we made it just in time! Okay, so all hell didn't really break loose, the situation was comical - Kaitlyn has a way of needing to poop at the most inopportune times!!! Melanie and I have decided to get together just us - no kids, next time!!! Kaitlyn, Mr. Jelly Belly and Alison waiting for the Roberts
Melanie, baby Kira, Alison, Mason, Maile and Kaitlyn waiting to go on the tour (Mason was hiding)
Alison checking out the factory worker spinning jelly belly beans
Kaitlyn, Me, Alison (and my purse)

We've got a climber...

Finally! I caught Alison in action, up to no good! Either she's going to be a dare devil or she wanted to get a close up view of the country music concert on t.v.

Oh my gosh, it's her sister all over again...

I guess I better break out the rope to tie the dining chairs together!

mark my words...

Brian is fiercely competitive, Kaitlyn's preschool is having a trike-a-thon this month, and as soon as I tell him about it, I guarantee he'll set up a tricycle training course in our backyard...yes, you read that right! Kaitlyn will win because he'll put her through a rigorous tricycle boot camp before the trike-a-thon...you watch!

We got sparkly diamonds!!!

Kaitlyn's reward for no more thumb sucking was to get "sparkly diamond earrings" and with the help from the "thumb fairy" the process went rather quickly! We convinced Kaitlyn that she should go first (with some help from Daddy promising if she did he'd buy her more Geo Trax) and that was the plan all the way up until the ear piercing guns were brought out - and she hopped off my lap, and I had to go first! To be honest I thought it was really going to hurt, but I had to show no fear beacause I didn't want to scare her. It really didn't hurt at all, and once she saw my sparkly diamonds she wanted to get her ears sparkly too. Kaitlyn filled with excitement...this was before she saw those ear piercing guns.
Alison waiting patiently, as we are convincing Kaitlyn that it doesn't hurt.
Kaitlyn just after...I think she's either in shock or mad.
Here she is looking all mad, but after she saw those sparkly diamonds she was happy - oh Brian's in for some trouble...3 girls, 3 pairs of REAL diamond earrings = B-R-O-K-E!!!