Birthday Party with Friends

 This top collage you can see again on the John Deere Tractor Party Theme post on Sunday on Save Green Being Green but the bottom two you don't see there.

 We had his birthday party with friends out at Ag Power, which is the John Deere dealership in the area. We have done a playgroup there every year for the last few years.

Henry invited 4 friends that we see often & have frequent playdates with to his party, but since it was a daytime party that was not a drop off, siblings were included so it made for a pretty big party for a 3 year old.

I just did cupcake for this party mainly because I was doing all finger food and wanted to avoid needing silverware for everyone. He had a good time and got a lot of JD toys. You can read more stuff about this party in that post on Sunday.

Henry's Tractor Painting

 To continue with the tractor theme after our Ag Power tour, we did some painting using tractors & the wheel prints. Both made different kids of tracks, so that was neat to talk about.

 Just starting out with driving his tractors through the paint.

 Notice the lack of pants now in this picture. The paint is washable but I didn't want to track it all over the foam mats (which can easily be washed too, just wanted to keep down the mess.) Actually, he only kneeled it in the above picture but it would drape down in to the paint when he crawled with his knees raised. So, it became a pants-less painting activity.

 He didn't think there enough paint, plus he wanted the opportunity to squirt some paint out by himself. He is becoming quite an independent Little Mister.

His finished product!

Ag Power Tour

Here are a bunch of pictures from our Annual tour at Ag Power. We had a dozen kids come and get to climb all over the tractors and gators and go on a tractor ride. 

They moved to a new location with this huge new building and we found out they are willing to do birthday parties, so guess where Henry gets to have his friend birthday party. So, we'll be back here to visit again in a couple weeks.

 Henry is in the back of the "monster truck" (it's what he calls the Gators, we gotta take that boy to see a real monster truck!)

 Henry couldn't wait to start pushing buttons and pulling levers and figure out how to drive it.

 This is a full picture of the tractor from above. It's just a yard tractor but doesn't he look so little on it!

In front of the building with their fall decorations, you can see they have snow blowers inside. Who knew that John Deere made snow blowers?

 Henry is going on a tractor ride. He is inside this one.

 Henry & his friend Thor just got inside the tractor & are waving goodbye to us. They were the lucky ones who got to ride first.

 Driving another (mammoth) yard tractor.

Checking out what toys are there and what he wants for his birthday.

Antique Tractors @ SCFF