Happy 5th Birthday Tahl!

The night before his birthday Tahl begged to open one present. I said he could if he took a quick bath and got into PJ's as fast as possible. 

He got two new schmatas to replace his car schmata that has been missing for so long. 

After he finally went to bed, I got to decorate his room for the morning. 

 Here he is busting out in the morning! 

Isaac and Zev thought it was super fun too! 

Here he is after he got dressed opening his first present, new markers from the Richardson family. 

 He loved his new chameleon from his mom and dad! 

He got an awesome singing card from Grandma Mimi.

Here he is opening his new scooter from Buby and Buster.

I had hidden this in the bag with the scooter.  Tahl has been begging for a green light saber to be Yoda. 

Here he is wearing his birthday hat and eating his yogurt.  I told him he couldn't go get a donut until he ate a bowl of Greek yogurt.  Even though Ari had to be out of town for Tahl's birthday, I wanted him to be here in spirit. 

DONUTS! 

Tahl had a great day at school, and he ate cookie cake with his friends. After school we went to the park to play.  When I finished getting all our stuff out of the car, I looked up and saw this. 

Crunchy the Chameleon had a great time at the park.

Isaac only likes the big slides if he gets to go in my lap. 

After we got home, T was painting this duck from his friend's birthday party. 

Isaac was busy on the back porch. He kept telling me that he had "pointments."  He cracks me up. 

Tahl got his wish of stuffed crust pizza for dinner. 

This is an alligator purse he made today in Tammy time.  He was so proud of how hard he worked to color the whole thing green, give it scales, and make it sharp teeth.  

Here he is trying out his new scooter in his undies before bed. 

This is the hedgehog that his Mimi brought him when she came over for dinner.

 Tahl had a fantastic birthday full of fun and love.  We are so happy that we have this silly, smart, animal loving kid in our lives.  We are hoping for a great year of starting kindergarten and everything else that comes with turning five! 

Tahl's birthday Questions!

1. What is your favorite color? Pink, purple, blue, and golden. That's all my favorite colors.

2. What is your favorite toy?  My figures

Who's your favorite stuffed animal? Nala, Eggbert, and Cowwie is the importantest because he needs to make milk for Nala and Eggbert and Gruffalo and Tilly and even himself
3. What is your favorite fruit? What's that one with spines on it? Pokes? Pineapple!!   Those little pokes are actually called eyes. Did you know that?

4. What is your favorite TV show? Wild Kratts

5. What is your favorite movie? Wizard of Oz

6. What is your favorite outfit? The one I'm wearing right now that has a monkey wearing headphones

7. What is your favorite game? All of the board games that we have

8. What is your favorite animal?  Can I say all of the animals? Armadillo, tenrec, and opossum

9. What is your favorite song? Katy Perry and "Call Me Maybe"

10. What is your favorite book?  Koala Lou, Busy town, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

11. Who is your best friend? Daniel and Harper

12. What is your favorite breakfast food? kolache

13. What is your favorite snack? Peanut butter and chocolate granola bar 

14. What is your favorite thing to eat for lunch? Grapes

15. What is your favorite thing to eat for dessert? Candy

16. What is your favorite drink? Chocolate milk and apple juice

17. What food do you not like? Mushrooms

18. What do you want for dinner on your birthday? stuffed crust pizza

19. What is your favorite thing to do outside?  Pretending were superheroes

20. What is your favorite holiday? Christmas

21. What do you like to take to bed with you at night? My schmatas, Nala and Eggbert 

22. What do you want to be when you grow up?  When I grow up I want to be a zoo keeper. Maybe an Airplane driver.
23.  Who are you going to marry when you grow up? You and dad

24. Where is your favorite place to go? Zoo 

25. What is your favorite thing to learn about in school?  Nature

26. What is a time you were brave this year?  When I got shots

27. What is a time you were kind this year? The day when Zeke wanted to play with me at block center, and I said half of the time I would play with him and half with Sommer to be nice. 

28. If you could travel anywhere, where would you go?  in an airplane to Disney world or in a car to Yesterland farm

29. If you could have any wish, what would it be? That I could turn into anything in the world just by saying the name of it. 

30. What are you most looking forward to about being 5? Staying up later! 

The birthday begins...

Ari is going to be out of town for Tahl's birthday, so we started to celebrate it a little bit early.

Tahl asked to go to Super Chix for his early birthday dinner. 

He and Isaac both very much enjoyed their ice cream. 

On Saturday Ari made him this five pancake.  The bacon is supposed to be a candle. 

Zev and Ari left for an over night camp out (pictures to come later,) and this is the note that Zev left.  Apparently he will only be missing Dixie. 

While Ari and Zev were away on their camp out, Isaac, Tahl and I went to run errands and on a special surprise. Isaac looked pretty cute in this star headband at the check out line. 

Tahl wanted to try it on too. 

Next Tahl got to go on his fun brithday surprise!  Pops and Gram got him a gift card to Build a Bear! 

Here he is rubbing the heart before he put it inside of what he chose. 

I thought he would take forever to deliberate, but he actually chose this two headed dragon pretty quickly. 

He told me it was like he got two stuffed animals for the price of one.  Another little boy taking after his daddy. 

He has been having so much fun pretending with them.  The one on the left with the open mouth is named "Blue."  (Yes, Tahl realizes he is not blue, but he says that is just his name. ) Apparently, he is a rude dragon.  The one on the right is named "Squishy," and he is the nicer brother. 

 I promised T that I would sleep in his room that night for a sleep over since Zev was having a camping sleep over with Ari.  This is what I found when I went in there to go to bed.  It was not a very good night of sleep. 

In the morning, we went to the zoo with Mimi. Tahl and Isaac were eating the Gorilla's boogers here. 

Tahl loves to pose with the statues. 

We got lucky, and an older chimp came right up to the glass. 

Isaac saw him and took a few steps back. 

We tried to get a selfie with him, but it didn't really work out. 

Isaac and a chimp tush

Tahl was being a baby chimp here. 

On the way back down to our stroller Isaac really dug deep for some "rilla" boogers.

Boys are gross. 

I got to spin Tahl in the nest! 

Who doesn't love a good Tahli face!?!

On our next ride, Tahl went on an animal. Isaac spent the whole time saying "up, down, up, down..." 

Tahl rode the elephant and I rode the triceratops, so Tahl and I could have a race. 

We tied. 

Mostly, Tahl was worried because dinosaurs are extinct, and there shouldn't be one on the zoo carousel.  

We can't wait to celebrate more with this guy for the rest of the week! 

First few days of April fun

Isaac loves playing at the mall play ground.  Sadly, what he loves most is pulling other kids' hair and pushing them away from anything he might want to play with. 

He had lots of fun with his friend Nick! 

Here is Tahl at school making his veggies into a rainbow with his friends. 

 Isaac still LOVES mommy and me class, and he really loves the gym teacher Miss Rhonda.

He also loves to try to copy her when she does a handstand. 

We went to the park the next day, and our silly dog was climbing all over the equipment. 

So, was this big kid! 

The guys all had fun trying out the new chalk that the Easter Bunny brought them. 

 Dixie enjoys a nice afternoon outside too. 

Look at Zev's fancy cursive.  Even better, look at how he spells his middle name.  We might need to work on that one. 

Our crazy dog has figure out how to get out of her crate.  I figured out an answer to that one. 

Here is Mr. Isaac riding on a parachute at school. 

 ... and here he is having fun at the library at the mall.  He was going to bed. 

Here is Zev after having a little too much fun finger painting.