Latest favorites

Tate and Finn have some new favorites lately and they definitely deserve a little post.  

Star Wars is the coolest thing ever at our house right now.  Tate cannot get enough of the movies (we've only let him see the old/best ones so far) and he's constantly playing make-believe with some sort of star wars theme.  When we went to Disneyland the Star Tours ride was one of his absolute favorites.  The vehicles we supposedly ride in are called Star Speeder 3000s (trying saying that with a lisp.  It's delicious.)  They had toy Star Speeders but we didn't buy one and he's been asking about them ever since.  Luckily, I found a printable Star Speeder online.  They had several different colors and types so eventually we made them all and now he has a little cardstock star speeder fleet.

They are pretty cool and it's fun to watch Tate play make believe with them as he runs around the house making sound effects and narrating his story.

Finn was absolutely dying that he couldn't get in on the fun but we had to keep them out of his reach because he has no idea how to be "soft" and he would just destroy them.  So eventually we retired one of Tate's fleet and designated it as Finn's special star speeder.  He was thrilled and now whenever Tate plays with his, Finn has to have his star speeder to follow him around the house.

 Now it looks like this.  Finn doesn't care one bit.

 Another new discovery/obsession of Tate's is Star Wars angry birds.  He saw it for the first time on someone else's ipad while we were waiting in line somewhere.  He hovered uncomfortably close to these strangers, watched them play and was just fascinated by it.  So when Glenn got his ipad as his "good job getting a bonus" gift to himself, guess what the first game he downloaded was.  

 I love the tongue sticking out with concentration.  If we let him, Tate would play star wars angry birds all day long.  He loves it.

Then while walking down the toy aisle one day he discovered Star Wars angry birds toy sets.  Oh. My. Word.  He got a gift card from one of his friends for his birthday and he knew exactly what he wanted to buy with it!

 You build this little tower, put the bad guy characters, all shaped like pigs, in the tower and knock it down using a sling shot shooting good guy characters all shaped like birds.  

 He loves all his little birds and pigs.  They have so many cute little characters and he has quite the collection now.  A special thanks goes to Nana who doubled his collection during her visit.  

Finny has recently discovered the marble ramp.  Tate got it for Christmas a year ago when Finn was a brand new baby, but we had to put it away once Finn started crawling.  We recently got it back out and Finn can't get enough of it.

It's especially fun when someone plays with him.  He'd be happy to have anyone play marbles with him, but it really makes his day when Tate plays with him. He sure loves his big brother.

Really recently he's started to figure out how to get his Lightning McQueen ride on to scoot while he sits on it.  Though he much prefers it if we push him around the house while he sits on it.  It's most fun if we chase Tate while we push.  But beware.  If you start to push him and then, oh let's say, get tired after a while and need a rest.  The blissfully happy Finn quickly deteriorates from this:

to this,

 then this,

 aaaand finally he just loses it.  

Why in the world would we break his heart like that?  So so cruel.

My latest favorite thing is the boutique that we are going to host on Saturday!  A couple of months ago my aunt, my cousin, and I decided that we should try our hand at our own boutique.  It has been so fun to put together and it's finally here!  This Saturday we're hosting Favorite Aunties' Boutique.  We've sifted through tons of vendors and invited our favorites to participate.  We've passed out fliers, posted everywhere online that we can think of, and even got an announcement printed in Colorado Parents Magazine.  We've updated a blog with some of our favorite vendor highlights so shoppers can see what we have in store.  We've all been sewing and crafting like mad trying to get our own product ready and I can hardly wait for Saturday to get here.  It's been so fun hosting our own event and even if the turn out isn't amazing, it was still worth it to give our own boutique a try.  I'm sure I'll post pictures after it's over.  Wish us luck!