Alex's birthday

My first born turned 6.  Wow.  It has always been such a cliche to me, and really kind of annoying to me, when people say, "Where did the time go?"  But it's so true.  What happened?  It really seems like he was just 3 and now he's 6?  Anyway, he had about a week long celebration.  It started off at Build a Bear with Grammy.  He picked out a camo bear and dressed him as Batman.  He named him Conner.  It is the softest bear!

The next day was Alex's party day.  He chose to have a bowling party this year.  We went to Andy B's.  It was fun, but WILD!  I may have said a few prayers for Alex's teacher having all those boys in his class together.  :)  

After the bowling party, we had the family back to the house for dinner.  Alex wanted brats, corn on the cob, and broccoli.  We also grilled some burgers.  

On Alex's birthday it snowed!  (Fun fact: it snowed on the day Alex was born too, which was also a Monday.) It snowed so much the kids had another snow day.  It was kind of a disappointment not being able to go to school, but we had fun at home and played board games all day.  He built Legos and we played in the snow.  He even got a baby birthday snowman!  We still went out to dinner.  He wanted the Chinese buffet so we brought some candles and sang there.  

When he finally got to go back to school (3 days later!), he brought Batman donuts to school.  They turned out cute!  Aubrey and I also went to eat lunch with him.  It was fun! 

Papa and Grandma came over and brought Alex a checker board.  It was heart warming to see Papa teach and play checkers with Alex.  What a wonderful birthday!