We were invited to celebrate Anna’s fourth birthday at Mobu Kids playgym in Falls Church! The girls had a blast and we loved seeing and catching up with Anna, Cara, Pat and Theo. 🙂 Thanks so much for inviting us to be a part of sweet Anna’s birthday celebration — can’t believe she is four already!
At one point, Mirei went under the parachute and got lost under there, which made us panic for a moment:
Dan also captured the funny moment:
Singing “Happy Birthday” to Anna!
On Saturday, we ended Mio’s birthday week with a party with a bunch of her little friends at Mobu Kids in Falls Church! Mobu Kids is a local private play studio (similar to Gymboree) and we thought it’d be a fun place to host the party so that the kids could have enjoy all kinds of play and activities. The staff there were great in that they really engaged the kids, helped out a lot with set-up and did most of the clean-up, and kept the party on schedule. It was still a little chaotic (as is expected with 20+ toddlers and preschoolers), but our stress level was significantly reduced because of them!
The kids shaking their little egg shakers to the “Milkshake!” song.
A video of the kids playing with the parachute:
The bubbles were also a huge hit!
After nearly an hour of playtime, the instructors got the kids cleaned up and moved to the party room, where we enjoyed pizza and desserts!
We got a video of everyone singing Happy Birthday and Mio blowing out the candle. Mio looks so happy!
We’re so glad all of Mio’s friends and their families could make it out to celebrate Mio turning three. Some of our guests came from pretty far, so we’re really thankful that they made the trek out! It was so great seeing everyone, and Mio had so much fun — she’s been talking about the party ever since. Thank you to everyone who helped make her birthday so special for her! ♥
Last Sunday as a busy day for us! For lunch, we drove over to Bowie, Maryland to visit our friends Will & Clair and their adorable one year old son Joseph! We had a great time at their lovely home, making homemade pizza for lunch and letting our little ones get to know each other…
Later that evening, we went to Gymboree Play & Music in Burke to celebrate our friends’ son Danny turning two! Mio and Danny had met a few months ago when we went to Frying Pan Farm Park. This was our first time going to a party at Gymboree, but it was a lot of fun and we can see why it’s so popular!
After an hour of fun-filled playtime, it was time to eat!
Mio surprised me today by rolling over from her back to her front for the first time! We hadn’t anticipated her to hit this developmental milestone for at least a couple more months, so it was quite a pleasant surprise. I had her lying on her back for a while on her playgym, watching her out of the corner of my eye while I was making lunch for myself in the kitchen. I saw her slowly turn herself and roll over — it took fifteen minutes, but she did it! Thinking it may have been a one-time fluke, I put her on her back again. When I looked over five minutes later, she was once again on her tummy!
Thinking that if she’d done it two times, she’d do it a third, I decided to try to catch it on video. Here is her attempt to roll over.
(Please excuse her poorly color-coordinated outfit. I just pulled out whatever clothes I found this morning to dress her, not knowing that she’d have such a camera-worthy moment today! Shame on Mommy for letting Mio commit a fashion faux pas in her moment of glory!)
All the effort to roll over must be exhausting — Mio fell asleep midway, while still on her side!
After her little nap, she woke up and did it again successfully this time! The proof is in the video:
Since then, she’s been rolling over several times, and she’s been getting faster and better at it each time. She must have done it a dozen times today! It’s her new favorite thing to do, apparently. 😛
We are so proud of Mio and how much she’s becoming able to accomplish!
I’ll end this post with a bonus video of Mio smiling and cooing. 🙂