Party for Mr. 4

Although Mr. 6's birthday comes first, this year we celebrated Mr. 4's first. It's good to take turns so everyone feels extra special. And Mr. 4 has needed to feel a bit extra special recently (4 turns out to be a hard age for our boys). So today was his special day and he was thrilled. When guests started arriving he told everyone "the party will start in one minute - when the birthday boy is ready".

We built gooball structures with toothpicks and gumballs, played a wonderful game of Isaac Jeopardy (Isaac chose the categories - Sea Animals, Books, Robots, Isaac, and Cells), ate pizza and cupcakes, had a book swap, and generally enjoyed spending time with good friends.


The structure actually started to collapse soon after the party started - the 4th layer was a bit of a mistake. We repaired and quickly sang before it fully collapsed. BBQ skewers and cupcakes are a tricky combination.


Babies love parties too!





Building structures


Isaac Jeoparday - Mr. 4 did a great job as host - everyone got a turn to guess. In the end we scored 5800 points. Good job everyone!



We are lucky to have such wonderful friends to travel life with - it's a tricky thing raising kids. These friends have been here for us more times than I can count - watching kids, lending a hand (or eggs or oatmeal), lending clothes, listening sympathetically, giving advice, and always ready to spend an evening together enjoying the company where the kids outnumber the grown-ups. Thanks to these people we've made it through another year - thankful that we're not traveling alone.