Collin's Spider-Man Sixth Birthday

Within a few weeks of starting kindergarten, we had been invited to almost one birthday party each weekend, as many of the children in Collin's class invited the whole class.  It was a great way for me to meet the kids I'd hear Collin talking about and their parents.  With one birthday party scheduled for Saturday, we invited our friends over on a Sunday night of a three-day-weekend to celebrate Collin's sixth birthday.  

Thankfully we were once again gifted with nice weather, so we ushered everyone outside to bounce houses, trampoline, and our new swing.  I think Collin spent much more time on the swing then he did on the bounce houses we paid to rent.  

Our ladies man swinging with girls from his kinder class - 

Maya spent the party hopping from one activity to the next.  She believed she was one of the 5/6 year olds, joining the swing and somersaulting down the bounce house slide -

She needed Grammy's help to make it up one section of the bigger bounce house - Super Grammy to the rescue to propel herself and Maya up the incline in socks was not an easy task!

Pinata time.  I didn't get a photo of Collin's attempt.  But within two kids we were already ripping the thing, with a line of 20 kids ready for their turn.  I ran inside for a blindfold, but I'm pretty sure our fourth or fifth kid tore it open -

No one stayed disappointed about missing a turn with the bat when there's candy to collect!

Our happy birthday boy -

It was fun to watch friends from our church and friends from our school play so well together!

It has been a joy to parent this boy for the last six years, and fun to watch his development in the last sixth months since entering kindergarten.  We love that he'll read his books to Maya and us in the evenings.  We love seeing him develop brand new friendships.  We love watching his imagination with anything from a plastic action figure to a stick in the backyard.  We love our six year old son - happy birthday, Collin!

A few days after his birthday, we conducted our annual birthday interview:
1.  What makes you happy?  Going to Dave & Busters
2.  What is your favorite animal?  hyena
3.  What is your favorite toy?  Kindle Fire table
4.  What is your favorite thing to eat?  peanut butter & jelly, Reese's
5.  What is your favorite thing to drink? apple juice
6.  What is your favorite thing to do?  go eat ice cream
7.  What is your favorite movie?  Home Alone
8.  What is your favorite game?  Power Ranger fighting game on Uncle Bobby's ipad, Candyland
9.  What are you really good at doing? writing the letter B ("it's so fun to write, it's my favorite letter to write"), running
10.  What is your favorite part of being a big brother?  getting to have my sweet, cute little sister
11.  What is your favorite color?  green
12.  What is your favorite song?  One Direction's "Steal My Girl"
13.  Who is your best friend?  Finn & Cooper G. 
14.  What do you and your mommy do together?  read books, play matching game and Hoot, Hoot Owl game
15.  What do you and your daddy do together?  Swing, be silly, go places
16.  What is your favorite sport?  Basketball
17.  Where is your favorite place to go?  Schlitterbahn
18.  What is your favorite book?  superhero book
19.  What is your favorite restaurant?  Chick fil A 
20.  What did you do on your birthday? Went to church, had friends over, jumped on the bounce houses and trampoline, ate pizza
21.  What do you want to be when you grow up?  wrestler, artist, astronaught
22.  What is your favorite part of school?  spending time with friends and going on field trips
23.  What do you know about God and Jesus?  Jesus fed 5,000 people with bread and fish; they made the world and all of us