Simon is 6 years old

On October 22nd Simon turned 6 years old. I can't believe my little man is 6 years old and in Kindergarten. He had a fun birthday. On his actual birthday we he had a little party in class for him that Nixon and I got to join in the fun and then we had a cupcake cake for dessert at home. Then on the weekend we had a really fun nice little party for Simon. It was great and easy and low stress for us. We rented the party room at the community center and they had it all set up for us with a room for the kids to play with all kinds of toys, balls and a jump house. Then we moved to a room all set up for presents and cake. All I had to do was put on the table cloth, serve the cake and ice cream cups (thank you Aunt Jaime for the pre-done ice cream cups idea) and juice boxes and that was it. The only clean up I had to do was make sure all the plates and juice boxes made it into the trash can. And with the price of birthday places this was very affordable, it almost seemed to good to be true. Simon had a blast and that's what mattered for his big day. Here are some fun pictures. He has a friend over for a play date today I will include at cute picture of them too.


Simon at school on his Birthday


Celebrating his actual birthday at home



All the kiddies at The Big Party



Getting ready to blow the candles out on his Star Wars cake.




I think we have a lot of super heroes covered in this picture. We have Spiderman and Superman playing with Star Wars toys. As I write this they are still dressed up but have moved on to an Indian Jones game.

Mom Wins!!!

So here is a little fact about our little Nixon. He will not keep his jammies on! So each night we check on him he is just asleep in his diaper and then in the morning he is freezing cold. Doesn't seem to bother him but it does bother me his Mom. He gets all of them off, zipper ones, pants and shirt style ones. So I saw these in a Khol's add the other day and thought ah ha! I call them little old man jammies. They are adorable and for 3 nights now he has woke up with his pj's on! Thank you buttons!!!! I believe mastering the button skill is far off so this should do the trick for a while! He now has 2 pair of nice new jammies with buttons.


One tally mark in the Mom's column!

Speaking of his sleeping habits. We have some friends whose son sleeps with a golf club (a real one) and I thought how cute but wouldn't that be hard to roll over on at night. Well, Nixon sleeps with 2 yes 2 wooden miniture Louisville Slugger baseball bats. They are the real deal, wooden and about a foot and a half long. He naturally loves baseball and Simon naturally loves basketball. Kind of cute niether one was pushed by us to either of those they kind of fell in love wtih them on their own around 18 months old.