Look Who's 5

It has been PARTY PARTY PARTY around here. It all started with the Lego birthday cake with family the night before we moved.

Then the day of... NON-STOP FUN!

First we went to story time at the Youth Center. The kids are in the process of traveling the world and today they went on Safari in Kenya. Norma, our new friend from Ireland and the leader, let Zach be the pilot and made the morning very special for him. All the children sang him Happy Birthday and at snack time they ate Wall-E #1 (I'll explain later).

In the afternoon we bowled... not a bad roll for the first try.

The school, bowling alley, library, game room with table tennis, PlayStations, etc. is all across the street from where we live.

As usual, ETHAN always has his own STYLE! This time kicking the ball.

So we moved on to table tennis and the first thing Zach says to me is,

"Are you ready for a SMACKDOWN?!"

I'm not sure where he learned this but because we have very few toys he has gotten away with a bit more than his usual hour of daily TV. I've heard a few new phrases and I'm sure they are from the Disney Channel and Cartoon Network.

After this we played in the park until Graham barfed all over me and we had to head home. On the way Ethan decided to lay face down in the gutter and yes it was full of dirty water because we had rain in the morning. I am not sure if he got a drink but his face was sure muddy by the time I got to him. He then proceeded to splash me with mud on the parts not covered with barf. We got home, changed, and shortly after Chris arrived home. As we were leaving to go out to dinner at the dining hall, Zach decided to spray Ethan with the hose so we had to turn around and change Ethan into another new outfit.

After dinner the boys "taught Chris" how to play some of the games they had played earlier in the day.

Then at 7pm the guests arrived for cake and ice cream.

Wall-E #1 did not come out of the pan.

Wall-E #2 did. Zach has been so excited about having a Wall-E cake that we had to pack the pan and decorating materials in our carry on luggage just to make sure we had it for the big day. Decorating cakes is not my department... Chris did an AWESOME job.

We had a great turnout considering we've only been here 2 1/2 weeks. It was a Lego and Spider man birthday as all the presents were mainly from these two categories.

Our good friends the Dumvilles gave Zach a tennis racket. He started Jr. tennis club the next day and our air shipment with all the gear still hasn't arrived.

We also shared the day with family throughout the day on the phone. Thanks everyone for helping this be such a special day.

One other funny thing. It has been difficult to hide this ginormous Lego Castle set in our packed luggage and here at the house. A couple of times Zach got a glimpse of what he thought might be his Lego present. I would quickly send him on an errand and then move it while he was out of the room. When he came back he would look again and say, "I must be going crazy. I swear I just saw something Lego." I always answered, "Kid, you just have Legos on the mind. You must just be seeing things."