Drivin'

Grant's favorite birthday present has been tearing up the streets......well, the streets of his mind. He's already been talking about how he could take his car to the pool and only, IF ONLY, it would be frozen over, he could drive it right across the water.

He picked out one of his most loved sleeping partners, so loving and thoughtfully named, Black Bear, to be the sole driver of his prized wheels. I can't decide if Black Bear's facial expression shows happiness or frustration. 
I find it quite ironic that this is his most prized pastime these days being that I personally bought him two remote control race cars for Christmas that never made it out of the package and were returned to the store without a second thought as to where they might be. As of today, I've used a total of 12 batteries not counting the one's that were in it when he got it. This might be a good time to remember to use my Duracell coupons. 

We All Survived!

Grant was up at 5:45 this morning because the thoughts of his spend-the-night- birthday party were inhibiting his sleep. His teacher informed me that he was high on excitement the entire day. I only had to hear "are my friends coming yet??" approximately 80 times between the hours of 3 and 5pm.

Lucky for me, 5pm finally rolled around and after a few rings of the doorbell all the party players were present and the fun began! First stop: pizza eating and an impromptu spelling contest. After a brief conversation lull, one bud piped up with "Does everybody know that I can spell railroad?"  That just gave me a giggle....

This is how crazy a 6 year old slumber party can look:
I wrangled the boys for a moment of present opening but couldn't contain them long enough to sing Happy Birthday or even eat cake for that matter. It was fine with me being that they were all ready dosed up on sugar from their Valentine parties at school.
They did settle for a little bit of popcorn and Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs. After that the real fun began!
How about a little wrestle-mania!! It was at this point in the party that I could really figure out whose idea it was to have 4 boys spend the night- Bobby or Grant? It cracked me up when the boys came upstairs and asked Mr. Bobby to play with them. Can you even see Mr. Bobby in this pic??

This picture makes me smile every time because Grant is totally laughing his head off.

Wrestle Mania will always be one of the boys' favorite memories I'm sure. This buddy's mom said that's all he talked about when he got home and she had no idea what it was!
Here is the last group shot of the night. I wish I would have had a camera to snap a picture of the faces of my three night owls when I entered the room at 1215am with my serious face on and separated the chatty charlies. It would have been priceless memorabilia! 
I know this slumber party created a lot of whiny boys on Saturday but it was good for a thousand laughs and smiles on Friday night! Happy, happy birthday, Grant!!

Six Looks Like This

Grant woke up this morning with one more completed year underneath his belt. I finally wised up and crafted the infamous birthday crown the night before so I wouldn't have to roll out of the bed at first dawn to try to be creative. From this waking moment on, Grant was no longer "Grant" but "Birthday Boy". He tried to get me to start calling him that on Wednesday night but I didn't cave. 

Here is what six looks like right now in the Morgan casa:

Cade broke out of the room with him at 6:30 on the dot. Little Buddy? Nowhere to be found. He slept until 8 which is completely unheard of in these parts.
Birthday dinner was Grant's choice and I had to pull my mom card when he said he wanted to go to Snappy Tomato. Please, no. Much to my happiness he pulled out a second answer and we headed to Logan's. He stuffed his face full of buttery rolls and gave his dad some knucks for having such a great birthday. I was lucky to have my handy, dandy pocket camera to capture the face stuffing.
It was his first time to be on the receiving end of the Logan's Birthday YeeHaww and he loved all 10 seconds of it!
His bros were pumped about his birthday as well.....because generally birthdays mean new toys and new toys are fun for everyone!
We headed back to the house and shared some birthday cupcakes with the grandparents. In keeping with another unintended birthday tradition, I forgot to get real birthday candles and instead had to improvise with a tea light left over from Halloween.  You'd think after, say, the 4th or 5th time that happened I would remember to get some candles. Not so much.
It was a great day for celebrating 6 years with one of my most favorite boys! If I survive my next post will be pics from his second annual spend the night birthday party! Yikes!!

It Fits Just Right!

Well, I finally found something to put in that crazy little cutout that our architect designed in our basement wall. It's taken me over 3 years and nothing seemed just right until now:

You just really never know where you might find this child. And by the way, he's a stuffed "Rhettaboo"...... very similar to the more popularly known "caribou". His own words. Really. You just never know.