There's a lot I have missed blogging about this summer ... Destin in May and again over Labor Day didn't make the blog. An awesome week long OBX 4th of July trip didn't make the blog. Neither did a trip to Laura's new place in Tampa along with a visit to Disney. But we did them all! And they were all a blast! There's plenty of pictures on my picasa page to remember all the good times. And hey a picture's worth a thousand words, right?!
But I really do want to blog about my first born, my only son, my Bug-Man, my kindergartner, my Little Man, my Bud, my SIX year old! I've attempted and saved a few drafts without luck. I think between Ryan being in kindergarten [how did that happen?! I still miss him and tear up at the bus stop in the mornings!], and Chloe growing up so fast [as much as we are done and as hard as the baby stage is, it's still weird knowing we're moving on from this phase. I need some friends or sibs to have some babies so I can live vicariously. it's fun to love on babies and then give them back.], I'm all out of whack. It's hard on this Mama sometimes, this growing up stuff. It's crazy how much I love them and how I just want to hold them and hug them and keep them my babies forever! But alas, I can't, so time to focus on all the exciting things that do come with age. And speaking of age, back to Ryan's SIXth birthday. [Did you like how I tied that back around? It wasn't even entirely intentional.].
Ryan's birthday fell on a Sunday this year, so we celebrated at school on Friday. The girls and I surprised him by being mystery reader for his class and bringing in a new book, Danny and the Dinosaur's Birthday Party. When I searched for birthday and dinosaur, this book kept coming up. Danny and the Dinosaur is special to us since Grandma has an old copy of the book and loves to read it to them. So this book was perfect, even more so when I realized that Danny turns six in the book. It was fun to bring in a new book to read to the class. I also had little dinosaur figures that we gave to all Ryan's classmates. He was soo sweet, he even pulled out a couple for his teacher and parapro. After the reading, we stayed and ate lunch in the cafeteria with Ryan. Unknown to us, our new neighbors Georgia and family were also there, so that was fun. [and hey, we had a photographer :)]. We also sat across from Benjamin's family. Abby and Benjamin have been in preschool together both years. When we sat down, Benjamin saw us first and was so excited, "there's Abby from my preschool!" Small world. Or a bubble, depends on how you look at it. And since it was Friday, Ryan had ice cream with his lunch, yumm! I also brought a couple of dinosaur cookies to celebrate.
Saturday morning we had a soccer game. I must say I was pretty distracted this game. Lots of family in town! It was great having Grandma, Auntie Sarah, Uncle Christian, Maxim, Uncle Jason, and Amber cheering our Dragons on. But Ryan wasn't distracted; he won the medal for the day's value: paying attention. Yup, Coach's kid won the medal on week two :) He had a great game and the assistant really wanted to give it to him when he heard it was Ryan's birthday weekend. Coleson had pretty much decided on another kid, but when the game ended and they asked if anyone remembered the value, Ryan was the only one. No favoritism there, seems like he really did deserve it! Great job, Buddy! Ryan loves soccer. He has great energy and is always right there in the game hustling, hustling.
After the game it was party time!! We packed up and headed towards the birthday party playground. This is the fourth year we've partied there, but hey, it's a perfect place! We had a dinosaur birthday banner and dinosaur tracks for the sidewalk. We colored and cut lots of footprints between the sidewalk decor and the goodie bags. The weather was perfect. All the kids seemed to have lots of fun running and playing and eating pizza. We had dinosaur cupcakes and dinosaur cookies. As always, the merry go round was a huge hit with the little people. Thanks to everyone who turned out to celebrate our little man!
Off to the corn maze after the party. While we always end up exhausted after a long day, the corn maze has turned into a fun tradition. The big three cousins led the way [why do we always answer the questions wrong?!]. The corn was awesome this year, super tall and green, there are a few benefits to all the rain this summer! The kids were so cute holding hands. Poor Maxim was in the middle and would get pulled from side to side whenever we hit a fork in the road and Ryan & Abby would disagree about which way to go. Chloe did great in the Snugli and enjoyed laughing as the others would run by. We also checked out the corn crib and horse tire swings and jumpy pillows. And then back to Nana's for a big family dinner. Thanks Jim for a delicious meal and hosting all of us! Presents and cake and celebrating Auntie Sarah too. Sorry you have to share your special day with Ryan! [well not your actual day, but the celebrations.]. Happy birthday too, Auntie Sarah :)
Sunday morning, birthday morning! It was Pajama Day on Upstreet at church. It sounds like they had lots of fun and played lots of cool sleepover games. On our way home, we stopped at QT for birthday snacks. Ryan picked out gummy worms, Abby Skittles, Daddy coffee, and Mommy & Daddy shared donut holes. More presents back home with Mommy and Daddy. Grandma and Grandpa came over with more too and ate lunch and cupcakes with us. We then enjoyed some downtime while Ryan built and built and built with his Legos. We bought him one of those plastic storage things with three drawers and moved the lego table up to his room. He's really enjoyed organizing all his Legos and building lots of fun creations. We had a family dinner at IHOP to celebrate the birthday boy. The kids love pancakes for dinner and we love that kids eat free.
On Monday Ryan came home with a happy birthday hat from school. I couldn't get anything else out of him about that though, I don't think they really did much more to celebrate. But since he had the hat on, the busdriver had everyone sing to him on the way home. Our busdriver is awesome! Monday afternoon Ryan had his six year checkup. As the nurse said, he's a square: 45lbs and 45ins. Right on average in both categories. Which means they are still predicating 5'10", 160lbs. It'll be interesting to see if that's accurate or if he has one of those crazy high school growth spurts. Everything looked great at the checkup. He had his iron checked, blood pressure, hearing & vision, a flu mist. All sorts of things, but no shots, yay! The girls and I all got flu shots though; Chloe did great, Abby not such a big fan. On a whim, we drove into Alpharetta after the appointment. We were almost there anyways, and I knew Coleson would be a little late that night. While we were driving to the appointment, Grandpa had called to tell us there were some scarecrows up. We had a great time wandering around downtown Alpharetta checking them out. There were lots and lots of them on every street light and corner and wherever they could lean them. Ryan liked the Lego man of course. We saw an astronaut and Abby was ecstatic. She's been all about astronauts recently. She really wants to be one when she grows up, pretty cool in my opinion! Of course she also wants Chloe and I to be astronauts with her. She has big dreams, but she's still my Mama's girl and I like that.
What a day, what a week, what a celebration. I love you, love you, love you Mr. Ryan Hazen! I just can't wrap my brain around you being six already. You're so amazing and smart and independent and handsome and sweet and caring. You're an amazing big brother and your sisters both adore you. I'm so proud of you and the fine young man you are growing into. Even if I do miss you terribly while you are off conquering the world, or at least kindergarten :) Happy, happy sixth birthday Buddy!!
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