Today I'm Five!

Today is brother's birthday. He turned 5! The past few weeks have been filled with a lot of discussion about how to celebrate. He had lots of ideas that ran the gamut from a big party with a bouncy house, to a couple friends going to play putt putt. Finally we decided that since he had a big party last year this year he would chose two friends and celebrate with them. He chose Ryan and C.

The plan was to go play putt putt golf, come home and play x-box, eat cake and then swim.

When the boys arrived it was getting overcast. We headed out and they had a great time. We started with a round of golf. It was so cute to watch them play. They would hit the ball a good number of times, or just scoot it with their clubs. When it finally fell in the hole they'd shout out 2 or 3! very enthusiastically.

After golfing we went to look at the rides. We had a Monday madness pass that gave them each one ride. First they wanted to ride the race track, but C wasn't tall enough and R didn't want to so then they decided on the airplane. Which they liked.

When they were done we went and let H ride the go cart and the boys cheered. By that time they were hot and thirsty so we went inside and everyone got a soda and then we played games.

After the games, and an hour at the prize table with four kids each spending 100+ points on tootsie rolls, erasers and other 5 pt prizes (the part of the trip where I had to take a couple deep breaths as I kept track of every one's points and how many they would have left if they chose any number of combinations of wonderful prizes, while I silently cursed the makers of little plastic doo dads and whirly gigs) Finally everyone had their prizes chosen and we were done.


When we got home it was raining, which put the kibosh on the swimming plans. The boys still had so much fun. We opened presents and they played with them. We grilled hot dogs and ate cake and sang Happy Birthday.

Very Very FUn!!!