All About Henry at 6 Years Old

HENRY'S LIST OF FAVORITES AT AGE 6:

Stuffed animal or doll - stuffed doggy and Baby David

Food - chicken potpie

Movie - Bible Man

Show - Paw Patrol

Clothes to wear - camo camping clothes

Game - Pictionary

Snack - chocolate mini muffins

Animal - giraff

Song - God's Not Dead He's Surely Alive

Book - Pup Fu Power (ninja paw patrol)

Friends - Colin, Alessia and Preston

Drink - water

Outside Activity - camping and fishing

Sport - soccer

Park Activity - playing with my brothers and sister

Inside Activity - cooking

Place to Go - Chuck E Cheese

Fruit - apple

Vegetable - carrots

What do you want to be when you grow up?     a yard worker

Other February Fun

Here's a few other snapshots from our month of February.

Grace delivered Girl Scout cookies with the help of Grandma and Mommy

Sam continues to be a dare devil on the scooter

Climbing on the Tumble Time Bus that came to his preschool

Mexican dinner out for Henry's actual birthday.

Selfie when I went to have lunch with Henry and Grace at school on his birthday

Elizabeth and William came to visit for William's soccer tournament in Atlanta.  We loved spending time with them and enjoyed watching him play.  We missed the rest of their clan who were home sick!

Great playing William!

Watching his cousin play soccer and hopefully learning some moves!

Great to spend time with cousins!

There's our little sweetheart!

And there's our big sweetheart!

Happy Birthday 6th Henry!

Dear Henry,

For the past 6 years you have brought an abundance of joy, laughs, and excitement to our lives!  We are so very thankful for you!  At six years old, you are one unique, talkative, funny, hard-working, practical, helpful, thoughtful, and loving little guy!  You remain a super outdoors type of kid and your favorite thing to do, by far, is still yard work!  Yes, raking leaves, picking up sticks, trimming bushes, etc are some of the ways you like to spend your time the most!  Needless to say you are a great little helper to us...and even indoors, you love to cook and help in the kitchen or clean as well!  You enjoy playing with your brothers and sister but aren't too keen on playing by yourself much.  You are a meat and potatoes kind of kid and also really like to sleep.  You are really enjoying kindergarten so far and are a great little student - your teachers all comment how sweet you are.  Your reading and writing has really come a long way this year, and while you'd still much rather be outdoors in nature, you do your best with your school work and are doing great!  You also enjoy playing soccer, attending all Cub Scout events (you can't wait to become a scout), camping, playing Paw Patrol, and riding your bike.  You learned how to ride your bike without training wheels a month or two before your birthday!  You pray from the heart and always seem to have a practical word of advice for everyone.  You are still a big talker and like to be silly as well.  Your personality shines like the sun and we are so blessed to bask in the beautiful warmth of your presence!  Happy birthday sweetheart, we love you with all our hearts and always will!

Love,

Mommy and Daddy

Henry specifically requested that he celebrate his birthday with Mommy since they fall a couple weeks apart.  It was so very sweet how important it was to him that we celebrate together...I loved it!  Grandma and Grandpa came into town for the event and our good friends, the Schoeneckes, also came over for the party at home.  It was a "camping" theme at Henry's request.

He insisted on blowing out the candles together :-)

A REAL leaf blower from G &G!!!  Sooooo excited to get this!!

And leaf helping hands from G &G also!!

He loves them!

So thankful Grandma and Grandpa could come to visit for  Henry's birthday!

And the real life picture......

Pine Wood Derby

 Nicholas and Shawn worked hard, designing, sawing, sanding, painting and fine tuning a pine wood derby car again this year.  And their hard work paid off...Nicholas placed 2nd out of the whole pack...and missed first place by only 0.01 of a second!  It was one good looking car decorated in a scouting theme - he named it Big Bear.  So proud of Nicholas and Shawn!  And....Henry raced Nicholas' car from last year in the Akala division and placed first!!  Boy was he excited as well!  Way to go boys!

Father Daughter Dance

 For the third year in a row, Grace and Shawn went to the Father Daughter Dance at our church.  Grace has been talking about and looking forward to this event ever since last year..it is one of the highlights of her whole year!  And I know Shawn also really enjoys it as well.  This year Grace even asked Shawn if he would wear his tuxedo and he did!!!  They went out to dinner with some of their friends and then danced "non-stop all night long" according to Shawn.  "She's a dance machine" he says!  Needless to say they had a wonderful time!!!

Grace and Sophie are good little buddies