Yep, that's right. 5. I can't believe that I have been a mom for 5 years. Brodie is probably the coolest kid around. His siblings love him - seriously, everyone needs a big brother like Brodie. For example, Brodie gets tootsie rolls for doing his homework at preschool. Instead of eating them himself, he always gives his treats to Ryker. He is the best when it comes to sharing. His teachers are always raving about him, telling me that he is the most behaved kid in class -- makes me so proud! He is smart, athletic, and good looking. The whole package!
On his special day the kids and I went to The Craze. The Craze has this kiddie jungle gym with all these tubes to play around in, a bounce house, and lots of arcade games. Brodie thought it would be fun to spend a little of his birthday money on some of the games. Daddy got to come play with us too in between classes.
Brodie played against his Dad and Ryker on this boat racing game and won all by himself! The look on his face when he won was priceless!
Mari spent most of her time in the arcade chasing around these lights on a dance dance revolution type game. I did my best trying not to think about how dirty that machine was that she was crawling around on. It will help build up her immunities, right?
Brodie got lots of tickets and he got to redeem them for a zombie finger and a packet of fruit snacks. He was a happy boy.
Later that night, we had a family birthday party. It's pretty hard to get people to celebrate with you when your birthday falls on the holiday of Love, but Grandpa and Grandma came and that's all we needed! Brodie's request was a Wild Kratts party. Wild Kratts is a tv show on PBS kids that he is pretty much obsessed with. It is a great show though - each episode is about the characters creature adventuring and learning about animals around the world. Brodie requested pizza for dinner and dessert pizza for his cake.
After we ate dinner we opened up presents. Brodie got lots of fun stuff including a tin can robot and a nerf bow and arrow.
After presents I put together a few Wild Kratts creature adventure games. The first game was the Monarch Butterfly game. Grandma and Grandpa teamed up with the boys and they had to wrap them up in a cocoon of toilet paper. In order to get their creature power disc, they had to break out of their cocoons like butterflies.
Next we did Cheetah tag. They basically just chased each other around grabbing one another's tails until someone got hurt.
We also played Falcon, Falcon, Mouse (duck, duck, goose). They loved it!
Smores Pizza!
We ended the night playing the game Spot It! Jr. Which was really fun!
For Brodie's friend party, he wanted to have it at the gymnastics center, which is the perfect place to have one when you live in Rexburg... in February. We invited pretty much everyone we know who has kids. I wasn't really sure if anyone would show up, but we had 24 kids come! It was awesome!
One of the moms showing her kids that she can still do a flip!
Brodie had to periodically run in and get a snuggle from his sister.
Brodie requested a Cheetah Pinata!
It was a great day! All the yahoos got their energy out and my house stayed clean!
We love you so much Brodie!
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