Look who turned 6 - A LEGO crazy boy

So Michael had his Lego Birthday back in June.  Yes, I know I am a little slow.  It's been a crazy summer so far, and I literally have no time for anything.
So with that, we had Michael's birthday party at the house this year and did a fun LEGO theme since this boy of ours LOVES, LOVES, L-O-V-E-S them.  I kinda felt bad having it nearly a month past his actual birthday because this kid got confused as to when his actual birthday was.  But dang the Lego movie for coming out on JUNE 17th.  A mom's gotta do what a mom's gotta do, right?

I found this site on Pinterest that had this really cool template for the invitation.  And she posted a blank one so you could fill out your own info.  GENIUS!!! So this was his invite.  Yes, I am a little OCD about posting personal information, so obviously our address and such are block out on this image, but they turned out AMAZING.  I even laminated them and they looked like the real thing.  Had Michael not invited to many kids (i will explain) I would have put some cool string to make look like press badges.  But I had to talk Michael into inviting his entire kindergarten class, and he was wishy washy on others.  So brilliant at the time mommy I was, I put a few extra in his backpack so he could give to his friends he forgot.  He gave them all out, and proceeded to ask for more.  We were apparently the talk of the school for the party.  Michael gave out, showed that many.  I was a bit worried. 

I got this CrAzY good deal at Toys R' Us on the Lego candy.  It was on clearance for .20 a bag.  I think I ended up getting like 8 bags which was enough for all the kids to take some home.  The mini cupcakes were also a HuGe hit as the kids LOVED them and kept eating them.  We had Pizza and water for the lunch during the movie and bags of popcorn as well.

Another great Pinterest idea to decorate Lego heads.  Kids weren't as thrilled with these as I thought they would be.  They had them done in less than 5 minutes.  WTH??? seriously.  This took a lot of thought and work actually on mine and Mikes part.  Oh well.  ha, ha, ha.

Michael scored on all the Lego's he got.  Between him and daddy, they had them ALL put together in less than I wanna say 3-4 days.  Seriously and he got TONS of Lego's.  Silly boys!

So to kill time until the parents came to pick them up, we poured Lego's out on the tables and let the kids have some fun.  GREAT idea!  Until they thought they could take them home. 

First party in our new house, with his new school friends and we were starting the rule of only parties every other year thankfully because this was a TON of work, but totally worth it.   I was free after this one until he is SEVEN!!!  Yeah - that isn't going over too well right now, and ESPECIALLY after the party and the HUGE Lego stash he got.
I have all my Lego ideas from PINTEREST  here and here
 

Kindergarten Stats

Kindergarten RoCkS!!!

Hard to believe that Kindergarten is over tomorrow. My little boy will be in FIRST grade? What the heck!!! They had their Kindergarten program yesterday and today is class parties then tomorrow it's done. Summer is here. Back to Spring Creek Preschool for the summer. However Michael has been busy setting up his own play dates for the summer and inviting practically the school to his upcoming Lego birthday party. Love this boy to the moon and back.


 Last Friday was field day and I was able to take the day off and volunteer. What a lot of fun it was and something I will be doing every year!! This is his fifth grade "buddy" Jacob. His school pairs up kids from different grades. The kindergartners get 5th grade buddies. The coolest thing EVER!!

Michael starts Kindergarten

 Mike's mom came to town last weekend for a visit and boy did we have fun.   Grandma also got a chance to help take Michael to his first day of kindergarten.

 

 

We went bowling w/grandma on Saturday night and boy did we have fun.  Michael usually poops out/looses interest after the 1st game and he went the whole 3 games.  We need to go more as it was really fun to see how much fun and better Michael did.

On Sunday we took a trip down to West, Texas. Remember back in April hearing about a HUGE fertilizer plant explosion? The town is a Czhec town and have amazing authentic food and since that it's Mike's heritage we wanted to take Mike's mom. Note to self though, the town is pretty shut down on Sundays.  We need to go back down on a Saturday.  But we had some yummy food and grabbed some Kolachies and Beer Bread to take home.  YUMMY!

These photos don't really do justice, but the devastation to the town was nothing short of jaw dropping.   This town went through a lot and have alot more to go through to rebuild.  We only saw a handful of homes under construction or complete.  We saw a lot of homes in ruins and just the foundations or slabs.

Michael's 5th Birthday Party

Michael's 5th Birthday Party

Today we had Michael's birthday party for his 5th birthday.  I was worried this morning that it was going to rain since that is what the skies and weatherman said.    SUCCESS!!!!
It was a lot of fun and what a wonderful memory for Michael for his very first birthday party.  The party started at noon and it started sprinkling around 230.  We had quite a few friends from his class come and boy oh boy did we have fun!!!

Michael had a little incident of jumping into the pool without his floaties on and starting obviously drowning.  I am told Mike was a ninja and was in the pool before anyone even started panicking.  What a superhero of a dad, and loser or a mom as I was completely unaware of this until I was told AFTER the party.  Yeah, WTH???  but he is ok and back in the pool WITH his floaties on. 

 

Michael actually requested this cake.  I thought for sure I was going to be getting either a Monster Jam or WWE one, but nope.  He wanted Spider Man.

Thank you rain Gods for holding off on the storm until after the birthday party and allowing me to give my little man a most wonderful party.

 

Even though he almost had his party cancelled.  Yep, our little WONDERFUL boy decided to punch his teacher yesterday in the stomach.  So he actually won't be enjoying any of his birthday toys until next week when he is off restriction but we decided to continue with the party. 

This hopefully will be only a one time instance and we will NOT have a repeat.  I am pretty sure he learned his lesson with his punishment.

 

 

 

 
 
 
 

Michael turns 5

I think this picture by far is my FAVORITE picture of Michael the day he was born.  What a mellow little dude who would change my life in so many ways, and quite possible be my 1 and only little miracle in this lifetime.




Yesterday my little man turned 5 years old.   FIVE years old.  Five years have gone by and there are 5 years worth of wonderful memories and milestones for this little guy.  One of the fun things for Me as his mommy is making sure he knows how special his birthday is.  I let him know it's coming up and yesterday morning I went into wake him up singing Happy Birthday.  He instantly woke up and I got the most precious little smile out of him.  He was so excited.

  I took the afternoon off work and brought his class little treats for his birthday.  Since I have changed my eating habits to more cleaner eating and less processed foods and sugar along with being on Weight Watchers I wanted to bring something OTHER than cupcakes.  In hindsight that might have been better as the kiddo's threw away more than they ate.  Mike had to remind me that it was the thought that counts, but really?  What kid doesn't like jello AND pudding then combined?  whatever.  I thought they were cute but I will know better next year.  There were 2 girls in the class with nut allergies, so I made sure to make theirs different and just as cute.

Michael just wanted jello so that is what I did his as.  But I think they turned out pretty cool.  Maybe this is a treat for older kids.

The birthday kid gets to choose what they want or where they want to go for dinner.  We thought for sure we would have to endure McDonalds or Panda Express.  Michael has a strong LOVE for Panda Express and he always chooses to go there.  McDonalds for the toy and quite honestly I haven't let him eat there in quite awhile.  I think their food is just gross, but nope.  He chose GOLDEN CORAL.  What?  seriously???  He loves the desserts there, and mommy can find something there I can eat.  Must not have done too bad, Weight Watchers today told me I dropped 4 pounds. I love this healthier new me and us. 

Now we have his first ever birthday party to do on Saturday June 1st.   We are having his friends from school plus friends of ours with kids over for a swimming party.  It's going to be a lot of fun and what fun for such a sweet little boy.
Love you MICHAEL!   Here is to another great 5 years (and LOTS more)