David is SIX

Wow. David is SIX. Holy cow! We love this funny, quirky, cute, happy kid who is the happiest when he is outside playing with all of his neighborhood buddies. And he has a lot of them! He is so used to having someone to play with all the time, that he has no idea what to do with himself on those rare occasions that there is nobody to play with. He loves school, riding his bike, Legos, anything with wheels, and playing games.

When I asked David if I could snap a few pictures of him for his birthday, he decided he wanted to walk down to the park (in the freeeeeezing cold) and take a picture of how high he can now go on the swings and he can go pretty darn high!

David's birthday was on Thanksgiving this year so we decided to celebrate a few days early on one of the kid's early release days after school. I had my first (and only) birthday party at Chuck E. Cheese and it turned out to be great! Other school districts didn't have early release so there was nobody there and the kids had so much fun running all over the newly remodeled restaurant to play all the games. They loved it! And I loved being able to just hang out with my awesome friend, Melissa, and my sister, Maria, who were brave enough to come with me and eleven 5-6 year old kids. Phffew!

Audrey and Aubrey are obsessed with Brody. They loooooooove him. Love. Love. Love him. They smother him whenever he is around and had so much fun showing him all the fun games and "rides" to go on. They even helped him get tickets and a little prize.

So many games... how to choose?

Dana was the only girl invited to David's party and she was such a trooper hanging out with all these boys. I'm not even sure if she even realized this fact.

Posing for a Chuck E. Cheese portrait. Cute.

It's all about the tickets!

The only struggle of the evening was trying to round up eleven young kiddos all at the same time to come and eat and have some birthday cake.

I LOVE watching David open up his presents. It is the most thrilling moment of his entire year. He loves everything...down to the cool cards. He loved all his gifts and we are so grateful to have such amazing neighbors and friends!