What Time Is It?: July 2011

Captain's Tom and Joe are turning 5!

Ye be invited to join the crew for

Some Swash-Buckling fun!

Hunt for ye Golden Treasures on

Friday May 27th, 2011 at 5:30pm!

Vnak Island

Address

Arrrrrrrr ye Coming?

or arrrrrrrr ye walkin the plank?

Tom and Joe are 5 YEARS OLD! Okay it is September now, and they are now almost 5 1/2! What?? I know, what is more scary is that Brian and I have been parents for the last 5 years! Time flies when you are having fun!! (I'm going to sound like "our parents" for a second.) but seems like yesterday that these guys were waking us up every 2 hours to eat at night. I wish I could bring back all the special moments that have occurred since their birth's, but life keeps moving and it seems faster and faster everyday.

So as you can see by the invites, we celebrated with the pirate theme. The boys are really into being pirates and watching "Jake and the Neverland Pirates." The boys decided they were going to wear their pirate pajama's and then I bought bandana's for all the kids, along with eye patches, and face paint to draw on mustaches'. After they all became pirates, Brian created a treasure map and gave the kids clues to finding the golden treasure. Once the treasure was found, they took turns trying to break it open to claim their gold de blums.

The games were then followed up by dinner, cake and then presents.

Their personalities are really starting to blossom more and more each day.

Tom is the oldest by 20 minutes, and claims the title of being the eldest. He is responsible, reliable in helping us out, naturally watches over others, and willing to give something up for the sake of others. He is sweet, funny, has an extraordinary laugh when he thinks something is really funny, and is a joy to be with. He is my cuddle bug during shoo shoo byes prior to nap and bedtime. Tom is a thinker and loves to take things a part and put them back together again. We knew this when we found Brian's business card, a knife, and a nightlight taken apart next to an outlet in our bedroom....I think he was around 2 at the time. He loves playing with legos and playing with his trucks. He still enjoys Tuesday's....Garbage Day!

Joe is the middle child. He is an instigator at times and can negotiate any type of situation. When he was younger, I would ask him to do something and the his response would be "Tom can do it." He loves to finish 1st and be first for everything, except for when going to the doctor, dentist or to get his haircut. He loves to arrange and sort the recycling over and over as well as taking the trash and rubbish out on Monday's. He loves to be a fashion starter....getting his hair spray painted with purple and green dots at Mardi Gras in February and his latest wearing his construction rain boots in the middle of summer on a warm sunny day. (He did get a lot of compliments that day). He is gifted with his ability to solve math problems. This past summer, we were on vacation and the he had asked how many tickets were left from the rides they had been on??

Dad: Joe there were 40 tickets total

Joe: and there are 4 tickets left

Mom: Joe, how many tickets did we use?

Joe: Mumbling to himself for about a minute......then shouts out 36 tickets!

Mom and Dad: Wow! That's right!

We love you guys so much and can't to see how you will grow and learn this year:)