Happy 5th Birthday, Stephen!!

Today, we have been having a nice, lazy day. We asked Stephen what he wanted to do today.

"Want to go to the beach, Stephen?"

-- "NO!" (The kids don't like having to walk the boardwalk, as well as walk down the beach 50 yards or so to get a nice spot past the fishermen, other people, etc., so they will always say "No!" at first. They love it there, though!)

"Ok... What DO you want to do, then?"

-- "Play boardgames!"


They have already played Monopoly (which Matthew won! I think he has won almost every Monopoly game they have played), and now they (Dave, Matthew, Stephen) are firmly ensconced in a game of Axis and Allies. Even I don't like that game! Blah. Matthew asks me why, and I tell him, "It's a man's game, Matti!" heh.

Stephen also requested "pizza store" pizza, otherwise known as Little Caesar's takeout. I made a tiger cake since he has a little stuffed tiger that he totes everywhere, and we had raspberry chocolate chip ice cream. All of our kids think that they do not turn the age they are turning until AFTER they eat their ice cream and cake. It is so funny!


We got him a Play-Doh "picnic" set, which has a bunch of toys to make all sorts of picnic foods. The boys busied themselves with that for over an hour after lunch.

In the morning, I set out Easter eggs around the house as they were playing Monopoly. They then took a break from the game and we all went out and battled no-seeums to find the eggs filled with candy, Goldfish crackers or MONEY. Rachel ended up getting the most money (thankfully not the candy!) Timothy decided to help her out and popped a large jellybean into her mouth which she chomped on for a long time, orange sugar juice drooling down her chin and all.

We've had a nice, relaxing day, and thank the Lord for yet another year!