October highlights

Does anybody else feel like it should still be September?  I can't believe Christmas is just days away.  Before the year ends, I have vowed to finish this year's posts.  So I am rewinding to October. Jace turned a big 6 years old on the 20th. It was a Saturday and we packed the day full.  Ryan and I stayed up late the night before to decorate the dining room with balloons and streamers and place his present on the table.

I was still sick with morning sickness, but Walmart totally came through for me with this darling chocolate cake.  I told them what I had in mind, and they made it.  It is a road and all I had to do was add the pack of Hotwheel cars crashing off the edge.

I still remember his thrilled look as I brought it out to him filled with cars!

Ryan doing the Chuck E. dance.

For lunch we packed up and went to Chuck E. Cheese's in Cedar Rapids. We blind folded Jace and didn't tell him where we were going.  He was thrilled. We haven't been there since we left Virgina.

Gracie was a riot.  She fell in love with Chuck E. so she and Ryan followed him around and danced with him every time they turned on his music!  Ryan was thrilled !! He loved dancing with Chuck E.  They are tight now!  He even got to re-enact it for weeks in the living room after we got home. All Gracie wanted to do was have Ryan be Chuck E. and dance with her.  I should have made a video of it!!

The first thing Jace did was see this race car and camp out on it for a good hour.  While he was racing away, I made myself happy with several slices of pizza and then followed Ryan and Grace around with the camera. 

Ya gotta love Barney!  At least Ryan didn't have to dance with him!

Here you see the mechanical horse-the best kind of horse to have.

Jace also took to this cross bow game. 

We had done pretty well at a few games so we cashed in our tickets and went home.

When we got home, my fun quota was filled for the day and I had to go to bed sick.  Jace was thrilled to finally have a chance to make his Lego police semi-truck that he had anxiously waited for for weeks. 

When I got up a little while later I found my darling daughter busy making cake too,

and my boys hard at work.  I don't think you can ever outgrow Legos.  Ryan had so much fun too.

In the midst of the construction Jace's favorite Grammy called him.  I love this picture of him chatting it up with her with his finger in his nose.

He also received a box from his Grandparents.  And it was so much fun.  Inside was a really neat construction vehicle that went right outside to our "quarry".  (The gravel pit where the pool was-everyone should have one!!)

And that ended our Saturday.  It was so fun to just bask in the joy of watching my son have a special day all to himself.  And I was especially grateful that I felt good enough in the morning to go to Chuck E. Cheese's and that Ryan's pager didn't go off until that night.  He was on call.  All together it was a blessed day.