An Extreme Lego Birthday Party!

Once again, all the kids that were invited to Charlie's party showed up. Like last year, I figured a few wouldn't show so we could all fit in our tiny little home. They all came and it was wild!

We had them each build a Lego car and then they raced them. Note: Lego cars do not go that far when pushed on cement.

In a matter of moments our Lego supply quadrupled. I wish I would have taken this into consideration before Christmas shopping early.

Lego head pops:)

The Pinata, thanks to Seth. I was already to purchase a treasure chest pinata from Meijer when he volunteered to make it. I think I'm burned out on Pinata making:(

The cake!
It was a LOT of work but they ALL had a lot of fun.

Six Times around the Sun!

Charlie turned the BIG SIX! He has made a huge jump in what he can do now vs a year ago. He can read, count to 100 plus, tie his shoe, and build anything from Legos!

His teacher has a fun ritual each child gets to do on their birthday. The birthday child gets to pick a friend (Zach) to be the sun and they get to hold her big globe and circle around the sun as many times as they are old. He has been anticipating this even for months!

Charlie's favorite food in the world is breakfast food, particularly pancakes. We decided IHOP would be a perfect destination for his birthday dinner, and there were no complaints during dinner:) (a big shout out to restaurants.com that sponsored our dinner for cheap, make sure you look for their promo codes) Our neighbor Shannon hangs out with us on Tuesdays while her mom is in school so she happily came along.

He was concerned they weren't going to sing to him but IHOP came through!

We love you Charlie and have loved having you the last six years.