Happy New Year and Kenan's 6th birthday

Our New Year's was a night like any other. We were in bed by 9:30 and slept into the new year. Kind of like it that way actually. We needed to be rested so we could celebrate the REAL celebration- Kenan's birthday! I told him he was special because the whole world celebrates his day! :)

He wanted a Skylanders (wii game) party but as the week approached he wanted a Mylander party (personalized skylanders). So I tried to go with this but I don't think the theme really went through. We ended up doing a scavenger/picture hunt with clues for places around the yard. Once there they had to do a group activity. There were two teams. I tried to connect this to the theme but I think it was lost on the activities which the kids didn't seem to mind. I must say it went well and was a lot of fun. 

Doing a human pyramid- blue team

yellow team

Trying to break homemade rocks to find the treasure inside (money).

                                     They had to spell Kenan using anything but paper and pen.

 
                                       Moving fish from one basket to another using a straw.

                                                    Filling a bottle using a medicine dropper.

Dropping "snow" into the bucket below. Quite hard actually- cotton balls really blow in the wind and it was windy that day.

Slow and steady wins the race. They had to get a picture with a rabbit and turtle. Another activity was catching one of our goats (did I mention we got goats for Christmas?). Basically, we were torturing the animals for the sake of the party. :)

                                                                Team picture in a tree.

And the other team's activities....

Sparkers in the garage

Kenan designed this cake. It was all his idea. He stood over me and directed me how to decorate it. He shot down my ideas. I did as I was told. It is his Mylander with lightning all around, in case you couldn't tell.
                                     

Our friends the Diarras ended up staying all day. The party was at 10am. They left after 5pm. Perfect, in my opinion. The kids played all day. We ended the time with smashing watermelons (party of the Skylanders game).

Kenan also lost a tooth in the afternoon. As he kept telling people, "It is the first day of the new year. I turned six AND I lost a tooth!" He was pretty excited.

We ended the day with his favorite meals. Friend chicken and white mac and cheese. He was pretty happy.

So blessed to have this boy in our lives. He cracks us up everyday. Here's one of his conversation with Anna at school.

K: Did you know I stole some of your books? 

A: What? 

K: Yeah, I took some books from the library. 

A: O.K.... 

K: I put them under there. 

A: Under where? 

K: Ha, I made you say underwear! 

 He is one of a kind. He lives in his own world and marches to the beat of his own drum. He is incredibly bright and impresses us each day with his reasoning skills. He is our sensitive child, the peacemaker, the outgoing one, and very generous. I love, love, love this boy. So thankful the Lord blessed us with him!