A conversation with Andrew…

Your big day started off with cinnamon rolls and ended with cupcakes at McDonalds….your choice.  A bonus was your good friend came to join us!  So now you are officially 5!

1. What is your favorite color?  yellow
2. What is your favorite book? Crankenstein
3. What is your favorite TV show? (changed this to tablet videos) – toy reviews and unboxing
4. What is your favorite movie? Ninja turtles
5. What is your favorite animal? Crocodiles
6. What is your favorite restaurant? McDonald’s
7. What is your favorite food?   Spaghetti and meatballs, Least favorite food? broccoli
8. What is your favorite snack? club crackers
9. What is your favorite board game?  candy land
10. What is your favorite toy? hotwheels and legos
11. Who is your best friend?  Connor
12. What is your favorite thing to do? watch my tablet 
13. When you are outside, what do you like to play?  tball and ride my bike
14. What are you the best at?  “running – I can run faster than mom.”
15. What do you like to learn about? drawing and PE
16. If you could meet someone famous, who would it be? Leonardo
17. What is your favorite thing to do with Bailey and Grant? “Just play – run/chase each other”
18. When you were little, you used to? run around
19. What do you want to be when you grow up? A Daddy.  Me: No, what job would you like to have.  Andrew: I want to do what Daddy does.  LOL!
20. What makes you happy?  Mom scratching my back at night time. What makes you sad? getting sent to my room.

Great Wolf Lodge!

Bailey was SO happy when Andrew decided to go to great wolf lodge instead of having a “friend” birthday party.  (and so was I!).  So we packed up and off we went!

Snowville with the REAL Santa!

Bailey asked for a ukulele.  Andrew won’t tell.  He always says it is a secret.  Wonderful, right?!

That’s the best Grant would do.  He did give him a high five.  The kids even convinced Grant to get in line and try again.  He did.  And chickened out just like the first time!

In the water park!!!! 

Wave pool.  I really think, if they just had a wave pool our kids would be just as happy!

Mat slides…

Tube slides!

Stepping Stones

And on the way out.  Sad to leave, but exhausted at the same time.

Happy Birthday Andrew!

Andrew’s family party

Andrew decided to have a family party and then head to Great Wolf Lodge to celebrate his birthday!  So a hotwheels family party it was!

I made a tunnel cake!  It was pretty cool…and actually worked!

Andrew wanted pizza and we played bingo for fun.

Then we built cars and had races!

Happy 5th Birthday Andrew!

Zoo Day (and Night!)

A couple weeks ago we visited the zoo during the night to see the lights and then came back a few days later to see the animals.  It had been too long!  We love the zoo!

Gorilla baby!  Now there are two!

That gator is always in the same spot! 

Grant would have fed the giraffe ALL day.  His hands are completely up in it’s mouth.  It’s really pretty disgusting.

It wasn’t very busy so Bailey and Andrew were able to do the ski high tower. 

And at night time! (They decided this wasn’t the REAL Santa and didn’t want to waste their time visiting with him.  They wrote a letter to the real one instead.)

Grant loves to talk about Santa and look at him, but he DOES NOT want to go see him. “No Ho Ho.  No.”