Danny turned 5 years old. It took 3 birthday parties to get him there. Last week was his small party at Gramalie’s. Yesterday he had remarkable Nathan, Robert Butker, Jessica Rowe, and Shawn over. Nicole, of course, was there as guest/sister/babysitter.
I took them on a tour to the river while Kathy gave Sue Rowe a tour and Nancy fed little Brian in the reading/feeding room. We ate blackberries on the way. Inside we played musical chairs to the Beatle’s birthday song. Kathy then set up the table for all the kids to make their own pizzas using small Bobolli (sp?) breads. These were very good, and all the kids enjoyed them except for remarkable Nathan. He put a tiny bit of sauce in the middle with two pepperoni’s. After cooking his pizza, he nibbled the edges off.
On Danny’s actual birthday, Carol, Bob, Eric, Ted, and Grant came over for the family lunch party. Bob cooked hamburgers on my grill while Ted and Grant watched, making smoke signals with the Webber top. We had fun. Hope Danny did.
Gift Highlights:
Nerf bow & arrow set
THE Peter Pan Sword
Paddle Ball – I set the record of 350. Danny was getting pretty good until the rubberband broke too many times
Batman figure on batwing/motorcycle thing
Zip Glider – didn’t work after an hour assembly time
Zip Helicopter – worked so good that Ted & Grant took it outside to compete
We had a showing of the house yesterday afternoon. The four of us went to Lucky Shoals park for a picnic lunch. Nicole taught Danny how to navigate under the over-hand bars. Danny was so excited that he came running to tell Kathy and me what he had done. We watched, and had to contain our laughter everytime his grip would loosen, he would look groundward, and fall with a bounce. He tried more than 20 times to go across, until his hands were red and bottom sore. I finally told him that he had done real well making it almost half way and that he should give his hands a rest. He was very proud, and so was his teacher. [See: 