Happy 6th Birthday, Daniel!

Where has the time gone?  Daniel is 6!  Loving grade 1, learning to read, loving soccer...he's not our little baby anymore.  He is such a fun kid, usually pretty easy-going, social butterfly.  He's becoming quite the ladies man - all the girls at school love to chase him around the playground!  He doesn't complain much, either.  :)  And we're so proud of all the new things he's learning - it's amazing to hear him read compared to what he knew at the beginning of September.

To celebrate Daniel's 6th birthday, the family went to Science World to see the dinosaur exhibit.  The boys LOVE Science World - they get that from their father.  :)  They could spend hours trying out all the experiments and figuring things out.  Although a lot of it was over Sarah's head, she really enjoyed herself, too.

Adam trying out some wheelchair racing.

Daniel's figuring out how to downhill ski.

Sarah loved this thing.  If you put both hands on the metal hands, it completed a circuit and resulted in this extremely annoying, high pitched whistle.  She could have played with this for hours but my ears couldn't handle it!

Fun with an air blowing machine.

Dinosaurs!

Post-Science World ice cream stop at McDonald's.

Daniel's actual birthday was a bit more low-key - presents from Adam and Sarah, cupcakes at school and pancakes for dinner.

On Sunday, Daniel had his birthday party.  He insisted it had to be a Beyblade party.  Beyblades are kind of like glorified tops.  The kids "battle" against each other's Beyblades and see which Beyblade spins the longest.  They were all SO into it!  The kids had a tournement against each other and spent the rest of the party playing with the toys upstairs and eating pizza.

Daniel certainly is a popular kid - eleven kids came to his party!  I think everyone had a fun, crazy and wild time!



Halloween

A little late, I know!  But let's get back into the Halloween spirit!

We had so much fun with this kids this Halloween.  They were so excited about it.  The boys were really happy with their costumes.  Daniel was a ninja and he was so proud of his costume.  Adam wanted to be a skeleton.  We tried to get him to wear Daniel's skeleton costume from last year but he was having none of it.  It was way too big and he refused to wear it.  But he came up with his own costume - a t-shirt with rib bones on it, black sweatpants and a skeleton mask and cape that Auntie Lauren brought back from Mexico.  It wasn't the most elaborate costume out there but Adam loved it and that's all that matters.

When we asked Sarah what she wanted to be, she said "pinta."  It took us the longest time but we finally figured out that "pinta" meant princess.  I had kind of hoped she would wear the new tutu and wings she got for her birthday so we added a tiara and she was a very proud fairy princess!  We thought she was going to be scared this Halloween, since she was so freaked out after seeing Grampa in a mask.  But she LOVED Halloween!  She went out trick-or-treating for over an hour and didn't want to come in.

Unfortunately, I don't have pictures of their costumes at the moment.  They are on our old laptop which is annoying and slow.  I'll add them soon.  For now, here are a few of the kids before Orange Day at school and some of us carving pumpkins.

Thanksgiving

Apple Squish time again!  The Thanksgiving Apple Squish has always been a lot of fun but it's even better now that the kids are getting older.  It's so neat to be able to watch them explore and spend time with family.  They'll definitely have many, many great memories.

 

Sarah's 2nd birthday!

It's so hard to believe that our little Sarah is two years old!  What a personality she has!  She loves to make people laugh and has the goofiest sense of humour.  She is a little daredevil and has absolutely no fear - she will climb anything, jump off anything, go anywhere.  She's a tomboy and a girly-girl all in one - she loves pretty dresses, jewellery and purses while playing outside and getting dirty.  :)  She entertains us every day and you can't help but smile when Sarah is in the room.  Of course, she's starting to use her charm to try and get her own way these days - she certainly keeps us on our toes.

Sarah started her birthday celebrations at Gramma and Grampa's house for the triple birthday party for Grampa, Aunty Laura and herself.  She enjoyed her birthday crown and was happy she got the crown and not the other dress up items her birthday-mates got.  :)

The boys loved the accessories!

Happy birthday girl!

Lucky Sarah got some new clothes, a jacket a doll and lots of books - her favourite!

On her actual birthday, September 24, Sarah spent the morning watching her brothers play soccer.  Grandma, Grandpa, Great-Grandma and Great-Grandpa came down from Penticton to celebrate with her and watched the boys play.  We all had lunch at McDonald's between the games and then came home for the party in the late afternoon.  Sarah had so much fun with her friends and relatives at her Hello Kitty party.

Sarah and Julia.

Great-Grandpa and Uncle Duncan.

Anxiously awaiting cake.

Hello Kitty cake!

Happy Birthday Sarah!

Yummy cake!

Adam enjoyed the cake.

Daniel liked it, too.  (Still wish I could figure out how to rotate these pictures...)

Now here's how you eat cake!

Present time!

Of course, she got even more presents - lots of clothes, books, fairy wings, a tutu.  She certainly is a very lucky girl!