He's 6 Ladies and Gents

Our sweet Sam is 6!  In ways it feels like he has been six for quite some time, but in other ways I can't believe this little boy is already six years old!  I could never sum Sam up in words.  He is an amazing mixture and try as hard as I may, I am not sure I could sum him up in a blog post.  But none the less, he has been such a blessing to us and we are so glad we have him.   He is always the most generous of our children and brings such joy into our lives.

We celebrated as a family on his actual birthday.  We had great fun telling stories to Sam about himself when he was a little boy.  Man did he cry as a baby!  And he sure gave us a time when he was two.  We laughed around our dinner table reminding him of some of those times.  He is the one of our children that always kept things interesting.  But he is maturing into an amazing little boy.  In fact, few of our friends here in Alabama have even seen his crazy side.  Go figure!  I guess he has changed a lot!

Opening family gifts.

Ignore the Christmas paper....it's a birthday.

Putting together a new Playmobil castle

Our tradition is to request whatever we want for our Birthday Dinner.  Sam picked Sausage, black eyed peas, and broccoli.  Love him!  Look at our actress beside him.  A lot of personality there!

We had cupcakes that night

 Then today we had a friends party with a Knights theme.  It was quite fun for our little boy.  We made swords out of paint stirrers from Home Depot and shields out of ply wood.

We had a sword and the stone cake

This was our little pink princess whom the knights were called to defend

Each child painted their own shield.

There were lots of battles in our back yard.....

Then a picnic on the lawn

Daddy added handles to make them truly useful

Then we had a jousting practice, which involved a roll of duct tape and a string as our ring, and a dow rod as our jousting stick.

We had an unruly two wheeled horse that was a bit less tame than our three wheeled horse.

The army and the damsels in distress

We also had a dragons egg hunt which included the finding of the Holy Grail. What a great day we had.  Thanks for coming friends!  You made our little boy feel incredibly special.