Birthday Bowling Bash

This past Saturday we had Jake's official bowling birthday party. He requested a Star Wars cake and this is what he got:



In case you couldn't tell, this is not from a professional bakery, ha. But I certainly had fun making it. I made extra cookies as the take home treat.



Jake's friends all turned out for an evening of bowling, food and fun. Most importantly, everyone had a great time, even though it was a bit crowded and crazy!


Even Clare came!

Happy Birthday Jake...

Wow where does the time go? About this time last year I was finishing up about 16 hours of labor and my first born came into the world, a little after midnight. Now he's a kindergartener and he's SIX years old.

Jake...
loves all things Star Wars, in particular Clone Wars
is fiercely protective of his brother and sisters
enjoys school immensely and has really taken off with reading/writing/math
still loves dinosaurs
plays dress up almost every day
draws pictures constantly, especially planes and police cars
loves his "schoolmates" as he calls them
just finished a great soccer season (and boy has he come a long way)
is getting ready to start another basketball season
sadly is starting to respond with "ewwww" when I go to kiss him
is a little type A (not sure where he got that one from, :))
is very cautious (I know where he got that from, not me)
is still learning to tie his shoes
is kind and funny and loving and all I could ever ask for...

He picked Cracker Barell for his birthday lunch, where he will order chocolate chip pancakes and white milk, I'm almost positive. And he gets to spend the entire day with me, no school...lucky duck!

Happy day to you little dude! Happy day this day and all days to come!

Belated Boo

Halloween has come and gone,

still those little snack size candy bars

are calling my name.

Made Halloween cookies

(with organic whole wheat flour)

and cheesecloth ghosts...with our fabulous friends.

Visited the pumpkin patch at the Delvin's annual CSA Fall Picnic...

Never did carve those pumpkins.



But did decorate a bit

here and there around the house

to get into the spirit.



The little ones had a parade at their preschool, made my heart melt...





And the grand finale,

trick or treating!



Ella Kate only made it to 3 houses,

she was rather out of sorts

trying to figure out what this night was all about...

In other October news,

the twins tried their hands

or I guess that would be feet

at roller skating.



And the planning has commenced

to celebrate this tiny life

that came into the world

almost 6 years ago. So hard to believe...