Six Years Old

William had a fantastic birthday.  He was so excited to be SIX!  He keeps asking if he's taller or talks different.  I mean, he does get to use two hands to show you his age now.... that is pretty cool.
The celebrations started out on Sunday night at Grandma's house with lots of great presents

and an awesome cupcake cake.

Monday morning he started off with his breakfast of choice--chocolate chocolate chip muffins.  He brought lollipop cookies to school for a treat to share with his class again.

And after school we had a special snack of graham crackers and hot chocolate.  It was perfect for that rainy day.  (It was actually perfect... the weather was just like the day he was born.)

That evening he had his dinner of choice: spaghetti with meat sauce, green beans, and "yummy" bread.  (Why is it that so many of our celebrations revolve around food?)  After a quick Family Home Evening all about William we opened presents.

He loved Alaska moose and salmon from Grandma and Grandpa Fisher.

He was not thrilled, however, to receive clothes from mom and dad.  Oh well.  He needed them. (It's not the only thing he got from us!)

Once again he made out with too many things... his favorite though was the Kung Zhu hamsters he got.  He's obsessed.

This year William requested a Calvin and Hobbes cake.  (Calvin is six-years-old, you know).  With a little bit of team-work Rich and I made something that William was pleased with.

William is such a wonderful boy.  He is kind, thoughtful, a wonderful big brother, a big helper, a good friend, imaginitive, fun, smart, and just an all-around good boy.  I can't imagine life without him!

Birthday Interview

I am - good

I am afraid of - witches that make noises that are fake

I like - muffins

I like to eat - spaghetti

I don't like - tomatoes

I know - the church is true

I want to be -a policeman

I like to watch -Star Wars: The Clone Wars

I like to go -to Alaska

My hero is -Hulk

I cry when -I'm scared... really, really scared

Mom gets mad when -I do something bad

Mom is happy when -I do something right

What I want to be when I grow up - a police

I can't wait for -Christmas to come

Something Mom says to me -"Don't pick up the dishes or you'll break them."

Something Dad says to me - "You are good."

My favorite stuffed animal is -the dragon

My favorite place to go is -Alaska!

My Mom and Dad make me laugh by - saying funny stuff and funny jokes

I know my mom loves me because -she kisses me (except I don't like that)

I know my dad loves me because -he hugs me


It was fun to conduct this interview with William and compare his answers to last year's.  It's hard to believe that William was born six years ago!  He is such a sweet, good, helpful boy.  We love him so much!

Happy Birthday William!

Benefit of living in a small town: 

 

 

your kids get to be in the paper pretty often

 way more than I ever was!

Artwork?

As primary children often do, William occasionally brings home a coloring sheet from class on Sunday.  William's usually come home in a wad or folded up.  I was cleaning up around the house Sunday evening and finally got a chance to un-wad his paper and take a look.  I just had to laugh when I saw it:

He and James are definetly not on the same page when it comes to girls.

Halloween--III

James has been singing this around our house for weeks.  I'm so glad that October is over... hopefully this song will end with the month (although I love to hear his sweet voice singing).

Halloween--II

Around these parts when Halloween falls on a Sunday everyone celebrates on Saturday--HOORAY!

Saturday afternoon we got a chance to carve our pumpkins.  William loves designing the faces and Rich and I worked together to make them a reality.

I tried to get a picture with the boys and the pumpkins... but no one really wanted to cooperate.

Bob's family was in town for the weekend (and BenSam's birthday) so we headed over to the Crane's for some celebrating.  Every Halloween we have so many parties (ward trunk-or-treat, school, and Rich's work) that we hardly take the boys to do any trick-or-treating.  We usually hit up about 4 houses on our street to be neighborly and then call it a night.  With the ward trunk-or-treat canceled and Rich with new employment we didn't have any candy (silent cheers!)  So... we took the boys around Grandma's neighborhood with their cousins (and Rich's little cousins).  They had a blast.  William soon learned that with so many people he could stand around and the people might give him double the candy.  James would stand politely holding out his bucket saying "Trick-or-Treat" over and over until they gave him some treats.

William as Obi Wan Kenobi (he was going to be a Jawa in the same costume but decided he'd really be Obi Wan). James as Luke Skywalk (this is really a Darth Vader costume but he decided he didn't want the mask and he'd carry around a green lightsaber instead of a red one).

Aunt Lisa as Snow White and Alexander as Chewbacca (he wouldn't wear his hat).

It was a fun night and I'm glad that we still have pumpkin seeds to munch on...

ps. On Halloween day (the 31st) we had our primary program at church.  William gets sooo nervous.  He can say his part perfectly at home (President Thomas S. Monson was called of God as well.  He is the current prophet of our church today). But when he gets up he mumbles through it and insists on getting help.  I'm just glad that he sat on the stand this year and sang some of the songs.

pps.  For dinner that night we had mummy dogs (pigs in blankets), eyeballs (grapes), and blood (strawberry punch).  The boys thought it was the coolest thing ever.

Halloween--I

October always brings with it loads of fun.  There are always visits to the pumpkin patch, parties, and pizza (jack-o-lantern pizza that is.)  This year was no different.

At the beginning of the month William's Kindergarten class walked over to the local pumpkin patch.  A friend in the ward watched the little boys so that I could help out.  They have a story, history and science lesson.  The kids had a ton of fun... and I enjoyed being there and meeting his new school friends.

A little over a week later I walked with James and Alexander  to the pumpkin patch with some friends from church.  Again, loads of fun... we always enjoy being with friends.  (Side note: on the way to the pumpkin patch James told me that his "best girl" was Anna, his cousin.  On the way home after seeing his friend, Julia, he said that Anna and Julia were his best girls.  Aunt Lisa is now on that list as well... because they're getting married.  William, on the other hand, wants nothing to do with "best girls")

During the last week of October the little boys and I headed to William's class to attend his "Fall Party."  James always loves to go to William's class and act like a big kid.

We also had our traditional jack-o-lantern pizza that night.

The next day James, Alex and I headed over to Julia's Second Annual Halloween Bash.

My friend, Janine, is always so creative with her parties and the kids (and adults!) always have a fantastic time.

 Finally we got the opportunity to head to the pumpkin patch with the entire family.  It's become a tradition... and we have to pick out a big pumpkin to carve.

And it's also tradition to get a picture of the boys sitting on this little bench.  Unfortunately this is the best one I got this year.

Still to come... Halloween weekend.