Happy 6th Birthday, Christian!

Today is Christian's 6th Birthday which is almost too hard to believe. As the kids grow and we need to get new shoes or new clothes because they just don't fit anymore, I will tease them and say "If I have told you once, I have told you a thousand times, you are not allowed to grow. Do I need to give you another time-out?". They always chuckle, "Mooom, we can't stop growing. That's how God made us." It is too cute. So, apparently I do not have the time-out power on growing up. So, onto a few Birthday facts about Christian.

• Christian's number one form of play is "imagining". He does not need any toys to do this. You can hear him in his room bouncing off of his bed and his walls as he "flies" around his room. He won't even tell me what he is imagining. Sometimes I wonder why I even buy toys and then all of the sudden he will haul all of them out and play with them too.


• He loves Robots and spacemen, particularly Buzz Lightyear. This year he got the mid-sized Robosapien for his birthday. He received a less expensive model this last year at Mike's work party and just loved it. Sometimes when he is imagining it will be sitting in the middle of the floor as he runs around it while it flashes its lights and warns of enemy attack. When he saw the Robosapien (and it was on sale, yeah!) he said, that is all I want mom. I asked him what else he wanted as there was still some money left in the budget. He kept looking at that box and saying, "That is all I want mom, the robot, that's all.". Very cute. Luckily I got a few ideas before we found the Robosapien. (Here he is with his new Robot since we celebrated on Saturday.)

• Christian just graduated from Kindergarten and is going into first grade this next year! Yeah. He is an emerging reader and speller. The other day he found his name tag from school and decided to write "big boss" on it. He thought it was a great joke.


• Christian loves Lego's. Or, at least the Lego.com website that we have found games on.


• Which means he also really loves the computer and the games we find on the Internet. Yes, his mom is to cheap and/or to wary of being able to control the usage of a Wii. I have password on the computer, so when computer time is up, so goes the password too.


• Christian loves theme parks. What kid doesn't. Living closer to Disneyland has been fun. He has learned about LegoLand too, and we are hoping to go soon. He loves to be outside and loved going to Philmont with the family last year. Here is a picture of him on Western Night trying to rope a "calf".

• Christian has a very infectious laugh. When he watches movies he will just get the biggest belly laugh. It makes you laugh just watching him.


• Christian has lived in three states already in his young life. Oregon, Idaho and Arizona.


• He is a force to be reckoned with on a scooter. He prefers it to a bike, although we are working on the whole bike thing too. We don't want to buy another one with training wheels.


• He is a little fish in our pool. It only took a few times in the pool to start diving and swimming across the pool. (Diving lessons this year and bottom is treading water in our pool.)

• He loves his Daddy and is very excited to play with him when he gets home. (But, he is really a momma's boy, don't tell his dad. I am enjoying it while I can.)

Happy 6th Birthday, Big Boss, Christian!

Here is Christian at the Arizona Diamondbacks baseball game we went to for part of his birthday. We had free tickets we shared with our friends the Ostlers. At this point, he really just wanted to be at home. He is hoping that the meditation will take him there.