Christopher is 6

My "little" guy turned 6 this month. We celebrated with a really low key swim party at my in laws just for the cousins. We are going to Disneyland this year so we told the kids that we are doing small birthdays. He wasn't too happy about not being able to invite his whole class to a large event, but was happy in the end with how things turned out. He wanted a Minions theme so I tried my best to keep it small with somewhat of a theme. He's going to summer school right now, so I order cupcakes and put minion toppers on it for his class. He was excited about that.

 

Drew and Cissa eating his school cupcakes in the car. 

 

We let the kids pick what they want to do and  eat on their actual birthday. He chose to go to Wet'n Wild and then Sweet Tomatoes for dinner. The waiter were nice enough to make him a smiley face Sundae and bring it out with a candle so we could sing to him. He LOVED it!

 

Party time at grandma's house!

End of School Year

We've been busy these last couple of weeks. Drew officially graduated from preschool. It's sad to see him leave such a fun group of friends. He's the only one moving on to kindergarten while the other 3 kids have 1 more year of preschool. Clarissa gets to join his friends at preschool next year, which is totally crazy. These little guys have been best friends and having playgroups since they were 1. In fact, one day at preschool Jacob forgot to take a jacket so he couldn't go out to play. The other 3 kids decided to stick with J and stayed inside with him. That's how close they are. They are all together in the same primary class so they see each other a lot.

 

The week after school was over we bought season passes to Wet'n Wild and have been taking the kids there a lot. It will be great to have passes to the water park so close to home this year. Last year we bought passes to one close to Cynthia in Mesa, and the long drive just made it inconvenient to go all the time. I've also been taking the kids to some splash parks to try to keep cool.

Christopher has summer school this year. It goes till the end of June. He was excited to finally be able to take cupcakes to school for his birthday.

Last, but not least, we decided to participate in our ward's talent show this year. I don't know how exactly I came up with the idea, but somehow I ended signing us up to do a family dance. I choreographed and we danced to the 'Gummy Bear" song. It was a blast. Drew and Clarissa were super into it. Christopher just about refused to dance but we forced him on stage anyways.  We all had simple gummy bear costumes. Totally embarrassing but definitely memorable!