Happy Birthday Clay!

Clay turned 6 today!  He was glad it finally got here.  He was not happy about Chloe's birthday being before his.  I tried to explain that only God controlled when you were born, but I am not sure he really cares :-)  He was up by 5:30 this morning (his usual waking time) and we were ready for school by 7:00.  It rained here today and the trees were just beautiful colors as we drove to school.  We had a party with cupcakes, gummy snacks, chips and KoolAid at snack time today.  His class sang Happy Birthday to him while he wore his "Birthday Hat".  We checked out of school 30 minutes early and came home.  It had stopped raining and the kids were just begging to get outside and play.  Chloe decided to rake leaves while Clay played soldier man with the small broom!!  It was quite the thing to watch.  We also decorated a picture of "Tom the Turkey" to disguise him for Thanksgiving - we didn't want him to be eaten!  Chloe made her turkey a farmer and Clay made his turkey a soldier.  I have to admit.  Pretty creative kids have I!  We went roller skating for their birthdays tonight.  All of the kids (James, Roman, Matthew, Clay and Chloe) and I ate at Pizza Hut before going skating.  Johney and Angela joined us, along with Heather, Chris, Hunter and Megan to skate.  All I can say is that it has been a LONG time since I have skated......I may not be able to get out of bed to work tomorow!!!  I love my babies and I still have a hard time believing that they are getting so big.   The time of motherhood flies by when you aren't looking.

Happy Birthday Chloe!

It is Chloe's sixth birthday!  I have a hard time believing that over five years has passed since she joined our family.  (and to think that I used to wonder what moms did at home all day).  Today was a school day, so I took cupcakes to school for snack at 1:30.  Ali is another little girl in her class that also was born on November 6.  So her mom and dad brought drinks and chips.  I stayed after the part and read some "Junie B. Jones" to the class.  After school was dismissed, we went to our favorite park in Decatur- the "castle park".  It has a wooden section that has castle looking parts.  They named it early and it stuck :-)  We finished up the day by meeting Grandma and Grandpa at Chick Fil A  to eat supper.  We are having a birthday party with presents on Sunday so that we can open our presents!!

Halloween

imagine, Halloween was a very big day around our house with two 5 year olds!!  They had a party at school where they decorated small pumpkins and ate lots of unhealthy fare :-)  Chloe dressed up as Sleeping Beauty, primarily because she is the one with the pink dress.  Clay was a red Ninja.  Now, I think he could have been wearing anything, because he liked the sword best of all.  I caught him stabbing bushes in people's yards all night.  He did manage to whack Chloe over the head once and was threatened with "no sword" night if he wasn't more careful!  Mom seems to enjoy the move to town.  I have never in my 35 years of life seen my mother dressed up in a costume of any sort....well, that has now changed!  Mom decided to dress up like a witch to give out candy on her street.  The dog even got a bow.  I told dad that he was dressed up like an old grumpy man.  I am sure that outfit costs bundles!  I found this to be very funny- when dad first saw mom dressed up he stated "I am getting a divorce".  I asked him if it was because mom had turned into a witch :-)  I thought it was very clever :-)