Josiah turns 6!

Josiah turns six today!  WOW!  How time flies!  He has grown so much and has matured (as much as a little boy does in a year) since last year...and even previous years.  That "wild" little 3 year old has settled down (some) and is an amazing six year old (not that he wasn't amazing before).  He loves nonfiction books; mostly animal facts.  He also loves maps (don't ever try to take a zoo map away from him), drawing/coloring/writing, and animals.  (A new show he likes to watch is The Crocodile Hunter.)  And coloring?  When Josiah was younger he had no interest in coloring at all, seriously.  Now, he loves it.  Josiah is a complimentary kid, which I love.  He loves school and learning.  He has branched out of his comfort zone at school and has tried pancakes, gingerbread cookies, chocolate on graham crackers, a hamburger (at home, though).  We are proud of him!  He is getting so big.  I'm sure I'll blink and he will be taller then me.

This past Saturday we had his birthday party.  It was a shark theme!  Here are some party pictures:

Josiah's shark cake.

Josiah with his cake.  This picture was taken the day before the party.

Love this picture!

Our shark craft:)  Ryan did an excellent job cutting out the teeth.

We decorated shark cookies at the party with icing and sprinkles. YUM!

Mercy and Liam were very content spreading the icing on their cookies:)

two of Josiah's friends from school

working on the cookies

going fishing

Aedan caught some gummies! 

The kids loved this game.  Josiah said it was his favorite.

Vivian was behind the wall putting the gummies on the line.  She also had a spray bottle and was spraying mist on the kids.  It was awesome!!!

Pin the dorsal fin on the shark game!

Happy Birthday Josiah!!  Cake time~

Yum!

Presents

pinata time.  No shark party is complete without a shark pinata.

wooohooo...candy!

Fun times at Josiah's party.  Josiah's quote when it was over, "What a GREAT party!"

Kung Fu Panda

The boys have gotten into Kung Fu Panda.  We are looking forward to the second one coming out this week.  The boys will have to wait till Christmas, though, to see it.  Here's Josiah rocking out to the song!  Enjoy! 

Lovie Day~December 4th

Aedan and I have had an ongoing joke for quite some time now about him being my lovie.  For the past several months he has said that he is Daddy's lovie only.  He promised me that on December 4th he would be my lovie!  He tried to get out of it, but there was no way!  Here's video evidence that on December 4th, he was MY lovie!!!

CBS

This past Thursday was our last CBS until after the new year.  We had our wonderful Christmas brunch:)  It was so yummy!  I love eating all the different finger foods!!  woot!!!  On Wednesday, we had some snow, and students were let out of school at 1:00.  I was so afraid of a delay on Thursday!  (CBS doesn't meet if there is even a delay.)  When Ryan and I woke up Thursday he checked the computer first thing and came back in our room to let me know the Christmas party was ON!!!  yay!!! 

Aedan and Mercy ready to go to CBS!  (They look a lot alike to me in this picture.)

Aedan waving at me:)

I had a great seat and view of Aedan.

Here are some videos~

Tree time

We went to Lowes, as usual, to get our tree this year.  The boys were into checking out all the trees and trying to find the perfect tree.  We always name our Christmas tree after a Survivor player from the season.  I can't remember all of our tree names in the past.  For those of you who watch Survivor, I'm sure it will take one guess as to the name of our tree. OZZY!  Shocker, right?!  I am almost certain that we have had an Ozzy tree in the past, when he played the first (not second) time.  Hopefully, Survivor will continue airing, or we'll have to figure out some other method of naming our Christmas trees.  Maybe I'll switch to Parenthood characters. 

Ryan with the kids (and the tree)!

Josiah with the tree

Aedan is concentrating putting on his ornament.

Josiah adding an ornament

Mercy and I

Mercy and I with her "Baby's First Christmas" Ornament.  I actually didn't get it until after Christmas last year.

Aedan and Josiah loved standing in the window ledge to decorate the tree.  We have lots of ornaments behind our tree.

Hugs!  You can really see Mercy's K9 bottom tooth that recently came in.  The other one on the other side has cut through and is pushing it's way up.

No tree is complete without a Clemson ornament.

Having fun!

Aedan~the football fanatic

Aedan LOVES sports!  His three favorite sports (right now) are soccer, football, and baseball.  He loves watching sports with Ryan and playing with balls in the house.  He has memorized many college football teams by their mascots and logos, and frequently spots them when we are out in public.  He is getting a Clemson football uniform for Christmas...a surprise to him, so if you see him...mums the word, please!!!  I love his love for sports!!!!       

Aedan with his "game football"

Here are some videos of him watching the Clemson/Va Tech football game, the ACC championship.  He couldn't watch the whole game since it was a night game, but it was on Sunday afternoon as well.  He was able to watch the FUN 3rd quarter!!!  Go Tigers!!!!!!!!!!!!  Enjoy some oranges!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Columbia Zoo

On Friday, we met my dad and sister at Fuddruckers for lunch.  We exchanged Christmas goodies and then headed over to the Columbia Zoo.  I love this zoo.  It is the perfect size with plenty of animals for the kids to see.  We had fun looking at the animals and I took lots of animals to make another zoo book over the Christmas break...a morning of entertainment and activity!!!  (Not all of the animal pictures are displayed in this post:)

Lions

petting the bunny....Once again, Josiah is willing to touch the animals

 

feeding time!