Birthday Party Fun

Happy Birthday to a Friend!

Love one another with brotherly affection. Out do one another in showing honor. ~ Romans 12: 10

It's the end of the school year for me so I am a bit slow with my blogging posts.  Two weeks ago, the little roosters attended a friend's birthday party at EdVenture which is our local children's museum.  The boys had the best time.  I enjoyed hanging out with them and talking to the parents and grandparents that came.  It was a fun afternoon.  Enjoy the pictures!

 

This is my Nick.  The one that wants to be a fireman, trooper, garbage man, and ninja.

 

Check out those feet!!  No, he did not wear work boots to the party.  They had a construction site dress up booth and he had a blast.  Those feet just totally crack me up.

 

This was a really cool hands-on part in the construction area.  You put the balls into this air tube.  The balls are "flown" into a scooper at the top of the container.  Someone in a crane in the loft directs the scooper to another tube, releases the balls and they fall into waiting baskets where the kids take them back to this area.  It keeps them busy for a long time!  Sydney's mother and I were trying to figure out how we could build a cheap one at home.

 

The birthday parade complete with boppers. The kids marched around the museum singing "Happy Birthday."

 

My boys second favorite part of the museum after the construction area--the butterfly garden.  The fabulous Mrs. Stewart (Yes, I am STILL singing her praises!) did a unit on insects at the end of the year.  The students got to see caterpillars turn into butterflies and then release them.  They LOVED it.  Because of that unit, the boys spent a great deal of time looking and watching the butterflies. 

 

I wish I had had my good camera.  This beauty was taken with my phone camera and just does not do it justice.  Isn't our God just an awesome God to give us such creatures to enjoy? 

 

Whew!  Yes, it is black and white to hide the wrinkles and the exhaustion that I clearly felt after an afternoon following kids around a three-story museum.  Earlier that morning I was running around a field full of blow up thingies for their end-of-season T-ball celebration. 

 

The eyes on this child just melt my heart.  I just adore my three roosters!