Christian Turns 6

Christian had his 6th birthday on Friday. He is such a neat kid, we are so lucky to have him in our family. Leading up to his birthday he talked about it a lot, just that it was coming up and some of the things he was hoping to do on it. He had talked about doing his first friend party, but decided to just do celebrations as a family.

He doesn't have school on Friday, so we were able to celebrate all day long. For breakfast he chose coco-puffs. I think our kids like that one best because not only do they get the yummy cereal, but they get the chocolate milk after it is all gone. They all had a few bowls, except for Julia, so maybe she is growing out of the sweet cereal. After Julia and Ethan went off to school, Rebecca took Christian (and Elliott and Agnes) out to explore the ravine in our backyard. They love it out there and it is so nice to just have open play areas so close by. Our neighbors did warn us about coyotes though so we have a rule that the kids have to at least stay in pairs. Then they came back in and did some drawings and then Rebecca took Christian and Elliott to McDonald's for lunch and some more playing. When they came back it wasn't long until the older kids got home and Christian got to open his presents. He said several times throughout the day that it had been the longest day of his life waiting for them to come home. Then we played with the presents until dinner time. Any guesses what he picked? Lasagna - his all time favorite. Rebecca made this amazing churro cake for dessert. It had a layer of cake, then a layer of ice-cream, then a layer of churros, then cake, ice-cream, churros, then cake, chocolate frosting, and churros on top. We didn't have any churros, but we did have some leftover homemade donuts that Christian had brought to school (Rebecca had asked if he wanted to bring cupcakes and he said no, but said he would do it if he could bring donuts). So Rebecca just added some cinnamon and sugar to those donuts and they tasted a lot like churros in the cake. Then he picked Spy Kids 2 for a movie that night.

Sorry, I couldn't decide which pictures were best, so I am adding them all

The next day we continued the celebrations. He got to go out shopping to spend some of his birthday money and he picked up a sword from the store. We also went on a big walk into the hills that are behind our house and that was a lot of fun. I will have to bring the camera next time for pictures. Then we came home and did a pinata. The kids loved that and they all got at least one good wack in before it broke. I only got hit once holding the pinata by Elliott.

Some about our 6 year old Christian: He still loves legos. He tries to play with them at least once per day if he can. He also loves pretending he is different people. He likes to be Luke a lot, but has been into being a knight a lot lately too. He loves drawing and does the very elaborate pictures that tell a whole story. And he is a really good actor. We do scripture charades for part of family home evening every week. When it is his turn he loves acting out every detail of a story. He plays multiple characters, yelling switch whenever he changes roles. And he does the best facial expressions with it. He also loves reading and is doing amazing in school.