Happy Birthday

Fletcher turned 5 in June and for about 9 months prior to that he said he wanted to have his birthday party at Brick by Brick. It is a basically just a big room with thousands of Legos. They do camps and parties and have the kids race to build the tallest tower or build a car to race down a ramp. It is genius really because kids love it and their over head is really low. Why didn't I think of that?!

 

Well, I foolishly scheduled F's party for the Saturday of Father's Day weekend, so a week before I had not heard from many kids and was worried the turn out would be low. I sent a few emails and low and behold we went over on the number of kids with nearly his whole class and all the neighborhood kids. Oh well, he had fun (even though he still had the cast on).

He still does not like chocolate, so I had to make vanilla AND chocolate cupcakes, because he readily admits that all his friends like them better. It was a Lightning McQueen party (of course) and all the kids just licked the icing off the cupcakes. Maybe next time I'll just give them a spoonful of that and skip the baking altogether!

 

Despite my concern about how many would show up, Fletcher was only concerned about one person, SILAS (on the left)! They were in the same 2's, 3's and 4's class and they are best buddies. They were inseparable the whole time. Silas had his party at the same place.

 

So I decided to have 2 parties (this will come back to bite me next year). Since F's bday is in the summer it is perfect pool weather, but I do not want to invite his entire class to my parents house. I do however, want to enjoy a day at the pool with the Harris family and F's bday is perfect excuse to do so.

Mac and Fletcher spent the day in the pool tormenting poor Kate, but she is tough despite their attempts to run her over with the raft or shoot her with the water gun.

 

My big boy slowed down long enough to take a picture with me.

 

Speaking of big, he was the 25% percentile for height and the 50th for weight in July. I question the weight because it is nearly impossible to find pants that are long enough but small enough in the waist. Let's just say you can count his ribs pretty easily.

I took this picture last week to show that he has grown considerably since June. He is bugging me to mark it again but we only do it twice a year. I wonder where he will be in December.