Adam is Six!

I'm so sorry for being a terrible correspondent! Things have been nuts around here with Tim actually traveling out of town, me running the arts and crafts boutique for my MOPS boutique, the children being children and yet, even in the bonkers times, it's also the same mundane stuff week in and week out - arguing about whether or not they have to brush their hair or if they can have ten more minutes of YouTube before having to do a chore. Fun times, for sure.

BUT, there are two other entries below this, so keep scrolling! First up, the littlest member of TEAM Ford is six - officially a third of the way to being a legal adult and only sort-of our problem. We had a packed weekend of fun for him. Saturday was the MOPS boutique so I was gone until about 3pm, and then we had take out and hung out with Lisa and Patrick and the kids - he was delighted to chase the other three around the house and pretend to be a monster.

Sunday we did a lot of relaxing around the house, including me getting tired of their bickering and forcing them to lay down in their rooms for 30 minutes in hopes that they would take a disco nap (to no avail) and then off to Circus Trix with six of his friends. All of the indoor bounce house play grounds around here give me a headache and are more money than they're worth, so like with Ellie's party we paid for everyone to jump for 90 minutes and then came back to our house for dinner, rather than paying for an enormous party package and being stuck in a side room with sad pizza. It's much nicer to be home with a beer and delicious catered Mexican food.

Here's the future cover of their first album.

Adam wanted a Minecraft cake that was him in his gold armor, so obviously, NAILED IT. It was also really flat because I didn't have any baking powder, but that's just how my cooking show would go - it'll be called "Oh Crap, Tim, I need you to head to the store for an ingredient I forgot!"

The best part is that I bought some frosted cookies from the grocery store for a guest who has an egg allergy. She declared she doesn't really like those frosted cookies, so went for ice cream instead. Meanwhile, most of the other kids wanted a cookie instead of cake. It was quite the dessert buffet going on, between cake, cookies, iced cream and whipped cream.

It was a really nice night with some of our closets friends, just hanging out in the yard until it was time to have a dance party and start booting people out.

Then as I was tucking Adam in for the last time as a five year old, he reminded me that he needed to do his Star of the Week poster for the next morning. GREAT. Totally had forgotten about that. The good news is he and Ellie were happy to illustrate it in the morning, Tim grabbed a poster board on his way home from the gym, and I taped some only slightly out of date photos around it.

I think that family picture is from when he was three? His favorite food is a pancake, and he likes to play Minecraft - that drawing is him on his laptop. He wants to be a bey blader when he grows up.

He also got to bring in whatever share he wanted as the Star of the Week, so he brought Lamby. And if you thought being six meant he wouldn't suck his thumb and huff Lamby on the way to school, you thought wrong.

This is what he looked like at 12:49pm, exactly six years after they pulled him out of me and we heard him squeak at us for the first time. This year, playing at the park and running around with a friend and giant stick. He's a terror and a delight, for sure. We're so glad he's ours.