When I made the Santa video for Owen at Christmas, I also signed up for a birthday greeting. 🙂
Notice at the end Katie is saying it’s her turn—because she remembered that at Christmas her Santa video came after Owen’s. She never did really understand that she wasn’t getting a birthday message now because it wasn’t her birthday.
I found this on Owen’s drawing table. He had been practicing writing the names of his friends. Take a guess as to what this name is. 🙂
Oh and noticed his cake pretty much as soon as he walked in the door after school. He had to put the candles on himself—immediately if not sooner. 🙂 it was especially excited because these were the cool silver candles he picked out at the dollar store.
Satisfied with his work! (He really did do a good job—spacing them out very evenly along with the Happy Birthday sign.)
I took Owen a Five Guys cheeseburger and fries for lunch. 🙂
Katie got some fries, too!
Handing out his birthday treats (mini candy bars) to his classmates!
The morning started with Owen telling me it was his birthday and he was six years old…before I could even open my mouth to say Happy Birthday! 🙂
He’s been taking his time so there’s just a bit more done.
Katie has started whining about not wanting to take a nap…when I’ve said nothing of the sort. This was after I told her no about some random thing.
I accidentally took the video with SLO-MO on, so I edited it to put her big “I DON’T WANT TO TAKE A NAP” in slo-mo at the beginning. 🙂
I’m still working on how to get the real video with no slo-mo.
Edit: here it is, except it got cropped.
We let Owen test out the top bunk bed tonight. He was giddy. I’m glad he’s enjoying it but I fully admit I made a bad judgment. I hate bunk beds.
Owen is starting his 996-piece King’s Castle set he bought with birthday money he’s been saving for years. (Well, he technically wasn’t SAVING it so much as we just kept stuffing money he received in his bank. We’ve been trying to teach him about money lately—and how expensive Legos are—so we counted out over half of his savings for this set.)
He is one happy little boy!
Katie: Are you done?
Owen: Does it look like I’m done?
Owen: School is closed! I love that kind of day!
Owen upon seeing Katie this morning in her dino PJs:
Hi little dinosaur-y.
Katie, as she’s done eating dinner:
Okay, I’m done eating. Goodbye.
Owen: Ahhh, this is comfy.
Owen, after a bath:
Mom, if I wear comfy stuff, I’m calm. If I don’t wear comfy stuff I freak out.
At Back To School night, we had to sign the kids up to be Star of the Week—basically an “about me” board to share with the class—and I was able to grab the week of his birthday. So this weekend we worked on it. I had asked him to think about what pictures he wanted to use, but that was too broad. So I started asking him about specific pictures, but of course he wanted every picture I suggested. So I just picked a bunch of good pics and then once I saw the actual instructions (the theme turned out to be more “show why your child is a star” vs. a general About Me page) we concentrated on four areas:
I printed out all the pictures and text and had Owen cut them out (which he did pretty good at, but we need practice on cutting evenly around things). Then I arranged most of the pictures—but let him do all of the gluing (which was an exercise in frustration—plus I see now how kindergardeners go through a zillion glue sticks).
Then he wrote a few sentences about things he liked. He did really well with the Star Wars and Family sentences (even using his pinky to allow for spacing between words) but then kind of lost it when it came to the Lego sentence… But overall, still an awesome job!
I have a feeling it will end up with more stickers on it by the time it goes to school Tuesday… 🙂
A tiny bit of background… Owen decided maybe two months or so ago that he wanted a pool party at our community pool for his birthday. We were totally on board with this idea since it would be inexpensive (no cost for the pool and we just have to buy food and drinks) and he could invite his whole class. Well, loooooong story short, we are still going to have a summer birthday party, but we will only be inviting a select number of friends…and in honor of his actual birthday, we are letting him have his very first sleepover!
So in preparation for the sleepover, one of the invitees came over for an extended play date today—it would also be his first away-from-home sleepover and we thought it best for him to be comfortable with us, the animals, the house, etc. His mom and I chatted for about a half hour (they were the ones we sat with during Bingo Night) and then she left.
The kids had a great time! There were light saber fights, beanbag jumping (with only a few warnings to be careful), and then finally…Legos!
When the visit got extended and I needed time to prep dinner without wondering what they were up to about the house, I finally let them watch a half hour of TV. 🙂
She wanted to wear her ballerina outfit again but I convinced her to wear this ballerina skirt. 🙂
And on our way out the door:
Mama, I want a scarf!
Her friend is behind her…
And her cute little ballerina butt bow sticking out the back of her coat. 🙂
Are you sensing a trend?
The kids wanted hot chocolate after playing outside. It’s the one time Katie gets a real mug. 🙂
Super hero time!
Owen had a snow day, so of course we were all out in it by 8:30! (Well, I was out, but not IN it!) 🙂
Owen: Mama, can I brush the snow off this?
Me: Knock yourself out.
Owen: Mama, can I brush the snow off this?
Me: Knock yourself out.
I’ve been very bad about scanning and posting Owen’s schoolwork/homework and art projects as they come home…so these are not really in any particular order, except I guessed on the dates and they’re all from about Thanksgiving to the end of the year. 🙂
The robot-like creatures are from a video game he plays with daddy and the numbers above them are their “health” in the game.
At the time he told me what this was, but we’ve both since forgotten.
This was from months ago, but I just took a picture of him with it this morning. It’s a playground he designed.
I love this monster!
Better pictures of the satchel he made for the Thanksgiving Feast.
He came home with this turkey and honestly, the vegetable- and God-feathers threw me. One, he dislikes vegetables and two, we are not religious (and there has been no discussion of religion of any kind—not on purpose…it just hasn’t come up) so we were confused as to how he’d come up with being thankful for both those things. We asked him and he did the shrug-his-shoulders answer. I was thinking maybe he brought home the wrong turkey or took someone else’s feathers (because they didn’t really look like his handwriting) so I actually emailed his teacher! Turns out, after more subtle questioning, he just borrowed ideas from his classmates and copied some of the things they wrote!
Owen was VERY excited about the Hour of Code and everyone got a certificate! (The Hour of Code is a one-hour introduction to computer science, designed to demystify code and show that anybody can learn the basics.)
Mom, notice the bubble light? 🙂
They learned about all different holiday traditions…
Me: Katie, we have to change your diaper. You’re stinky.
Katie: No, I’m doing stickers.
This is what I hear from Katie’s room as I’m putting clothes away in Owen’s room.
Owen: Mama, come look at your daughter.
Owen: Mom, I’m going to play this game by myself, okay?
Me: Great!
Owen, every six seconds: Mom! Look at this! Hey mom, red and green won. Mom! Mom! Mom!
Me: :/
Owen wanted to start a new Star Wars Lego project. I told him that it was the biggest and most expensive project we had bought yet…AND that it would be the hardest, too.
Owen: But hard is easy for me!
Owen likes to say “Mom, come look at your daughter!” when Katie does funny things. Tonight, we got this:
Katie: Mom, come look at my daughter!
Katie tripped in the kitchen.
Katie: Awww. I hurt the kitchen with my leg.
Katie: I’m a superhero!
We went to Manassas today to see one of Tom’s coworkers at a Farmers Market (he’s part owner of a BBQ place) and then we went to the fish/coral store. Of course I couldn’t get a good pic of the cool colors under the lights…but the pic still turned out cool.
Drawing!
On the way home, we stopped at the park:
Katie LOVED this part. She had daddy help her the first time and then she had no fear.
And then Owen starts being Owen…
And then I promise them a treat if they sit nice. 🙂
This was a Christmas present from Aunt Beth and Uncle Jim and today we finally decided to do it. Owen was SUPER excited: “This is going to be AMAZING!”
Reading the instructions. We should have done this part before getting Owen involved. 🙂
As you can see, the “test” explosion wasn’t very crazy and the goggles really aren’t warranted. 🙂
The compilation video:
I was watching the volcano experiment when I heard lots of Lego noise from the other room. I walked in to see this:
