Party time!

Andrew had a birthday party on Saturday, his first ever birthday party with friends.  He was so excited about the party for days.  His friend from school had a party at this same place earlier this year and he had so much fun, he wanted to do the same thing.  It was great because they took care of everything and had lots of fun superhero themed things for the kids to do.  One of his party leaders told me that he was the most excited birthday boy she has ever had!

Andrew, Olivier, Henry, Tristan, Jane, Noah, Addison, Hudson, Carolijn, Emily

He's FIVE!

Yesterday my sweet boy turned FIVE years old!  He is such an awesome boy, happy and giggling all the time.  He loves to learn, especially about animals and dinosaurs, and he knows so much stuff.  He can tell you all about the sleeping and eating habits of most sea animals and can ID dinosaurs as well as some paleontologists I think!  Recently, he has been learning to read.  He loves puzzles and building toys and anything superhero, Transformers, or Ninja Turtles.

I did a quick birthday interview with him last night so I could record all the fun facts about Andrew at age 5.

• His best friends are Olivier, Hudson, Charlie, and Noah
• He likes to play Jurassic Park
• When he grows up he wants to be a big brother (which he is already great at!  He also has been telling me he wants to be a "jungle police man" when he grows up...they protect animals)
• His favorite color is blue
• His favorite animal is the humpback whale
• His favorite thing to eat is grilled cheese
• His favorite thing to drink is milk
• In school, he likes doing work
• With mommy he likes to play Jenga and with his sister he likes to play games, he wasn't quite sure what he likes to do with daddy.
• His favorite thing to read is his Avengers book
• Captain America is his favorite superhero.
• His favorite sport is baseball and he likes to watch football.

Andrew doesn't like kissing his sister anymore, she still thinks it is hilarious!

He had a wonderful birthday, he shared cupcakes with his classmates at school, dot to wear a birthday crown in class and was given a new book from his teacher.  He requested grilled cheese sandwiches and tomato soup for dinner and we all had more cupcakes last night! And the celebration isn't over yet, tomorrow he has a party with some of his friends.

Halloween fun

The kids helped me carve a pumpkin last Tuesday.  It is a good thing we weren't in town for Halloween because these jack-o-lanterns did not survive to see Halloween day, they were all moldy and got tossed before we left town on Friday.  But they were so fun to carve! Both kids were really excited about carving the pumpkins this year.  I cut them open and had them dig out the seeds, Emily dug right in, Andrew was not too excited about touching the gooey pumpkin insides but he slowly plucked out some seeds.  They both told me they wanted a vampire pumpkin so the big pumpkin got carves with pointy vampire teeth.  They had disappeared on their bikes by the time I started carving the little pumpkin so I came up with that design, when they came back I was told that "they were supposed to both be vampires, not one vampire and one silly chipmunk"...oh well, next year maybe they will stick around!

On Halloween, we drove up to Milton for a Halloween party.  They had a bounce house which is where the kids spent pretty much the whole night, even in the rain.  They left with huge bags of candy and soaking wet costumes!