Magical 5

Matthias turned 5 this year on December 5th. We had a great celebration, James and Taylor both ditched school...started the day opening presents. (I'm not sure if we can continue this tradition much longer now that we have kids in school...)

Crepes were Matthias breakfast of choice, yum. Played with his gifts...knights, remote control car ($5-best deal ever!), and a game.

Headed to the Lego Store about 30 minutes from our house. Big hit! The kids had a great time looking at all the new sets coming out. There is a station where you can put together figures so Matthias made 3 that we bought for him.

That night he requested lasagna for dinner and a Christmas cake. It was such a fun day and we had a great time celebrating as a family!

We love our Matthias. He is still full of energy and fun. He is doing well in gymnastics, he's in the boys' invitational class at his gym. He love having preschool with his friends at their houses. He is reading really well and is a pretty intuitive little guy. He brings so much excitement and intensity to our house!

He's 5

And it was his Magic Birthday...more details and in depth looks later.



For now some quotes...

Me: I really want you to remember your Magic Birthday.
Matthias: I know you do.
Me: Do you think you'll remember it forever? Was it the best?
Matthias: Probably when I am old I will forget it. Like when I am a grandpa and grandpa.
Me: But we have lots of pictures and videos so you can see it.
Matthias: Probably I'll forget it when I am like 19 or older. But I can see the movies. You should have taken a movie of the whole day.



Last night while looking at a nativity picture
Matthias: This is the picture of Angels We Have Heard on High
Me: Yeah, it's a good nativity picture huh?
Matthias: Here are the angels and the mountains and they are pretending the stars are planes.
Me: What? Oh, like air planes?
Matthias: Yeah.
Me: Actually those are just stars. The song is talking about different plains.
Matthias: Star planes.



Matthias: I can't wait until I'm the oldest in the family.

Random Pictures

of Matthias and Hannah and James and preschool.

Thanksgiving

We had the Mattox family for dinner. Watched the parade on live camera on the computer. Put the tree up after dinner. Pie party the night before was a huge success...about 55 guests this year. Got some Black Friday deals on everyone's new sleeping bag for Christmas.

Both boys had Thanksgiving parties with their classes. And Matthias, Hannah, and I made a Thanksgiving feast with Legos...Harry Potter, Voldemort, Qui Gon Jinn, Hagrid, Kai, skeletons and more were all in attendance.

Pumpkin Pie Time!

It's about 80 out, slight breeze, leaves blowing and we just finished gutting our pumpkins to bake for pie. And pumpkin power bars. And probably cookies. Mmm. I love fall. It's a beautiful thing.

Pedernales Falls

We went camping this past week and it was so lovely. I have really been needing a quick get away to relax and recharge. We had so much fun spending a couple days as a family...exploring, walking, hiking, throwing rocks, laughing, just being together without any distractions. No computers, no housework, no paper for the boys to draw endlessly and ignore the rest of the world. =] It was super fun.

We did 4 different hikes, learned to skip rocks. We also saw deer, a raccoon (in a trap), cardinals, lots of other birds, tons of fish, a turtle, a crocodile (a piece of drift wood the boys thought was a crocodile).

Lucky for us we picked the coldest night we've had since February, there was water frozen when we woke up in the morning so it was really cold. All the other nights in the past week have been between 45-60 for the low so we really got the coldest night by far. But we borrowed some mummy bags for the boys and we all crammed in the 3 man tent with about 9 quilts, 4 sleeping bags, and 4 mats so everyone seemed to stay pretty warm except Taylor. I was super toasty with my beanie and snuggled in the middle.

We all had at least 4 layers and the first few hours we were awake it was really chilly. We went to bed at 8:00 because it was dark and cold and we still have a fire ban. Didn't get out of the tent until 8 am so we missed most of the coldness bundled in bed. By noon it was getting pretty toasty and we were all in short sleeves by the time we left for home at 4.

Love camping...the kids enjoy it so much, and I find it so peaceful and relaxing.

Colder Weather

calls for warmer clothing. we freeze at 70 here.