Andrew's 5th Birthday - A Day of Festivities!

In typical Davlin family tradition, we had a fun filled day for Andrew on 2/22/12.  He woke up to birthday blueberry muffins :)

And then began the present opening time.  He wanted Zhu Zhu pet items and so he received several of those....

And his Monster Truck shirt that he picked out a few weeks ago that I saved for his birthday present:

Of course, baby sister wanted to get in on the action :)

His Zhu Zhu pet center that he also picked out a few weeks ago and that I set back for him:

One of his MAJOR birthday presents was his motorized truck like his Daddy's old truck.  At first he was SPEECHLESS and then got super excited about his "new wheels" :)

 

Going "mudding" in the backyard...

Driving his baby sister around... she LOVES to work the radio - it's really a working stereo!  It is so funny to watch him drive her around...she cracks up the whole time which gets him cracking up.  They are such a joy to watch! :)

A little later, Andrew's best friend, Matthew came over for a "jammie party" with his sister Meghan.  They had so much fun driving and riding around together!

After riding around and playing inside for a bit, Keren & I took all 4 kids to Chick-fil-a for lunch in their jammies :)  They had a blast running around and playing.  Then we parted ways and headed home and waited for Melinda to arrive from San Antonio with Kaitlyn & Ava.  The kids all have so much fun together and after dinner we had to celebrate with a yummy super chocolatey birthday cake :)

He wasn't a fan of the "stinky smoke" after blowing out his candles:

What birthday would be complete without licking the cake ribbon clean of icing! :)

After we got the kids in jammies, they played for a bit.  Ava & Alyssa had fun playing together.  Ava running while Alyssa crawled after her...

David got piled up with kiddos.  I had bought all the kids coordinating pajamas at Christmas time but with all the winter sickies and travels, we weren't able to get them together over the Holidays.  But we got 3/4 of them matching and had to take a pic! :)

David with his 2 kiddos... happy as can be! :)

02-22-12: Andrew's 5th Birthday

On 02/22/12, our baby boy turned 5 years old!!!! It's so hard to believe that he is 5. That's five. F-I-V-E.... Waaaah!! How can time being passing so quickly!?!?! It seems like we just brought him home from the hospital and in just about 6 months he will be starting kindergarten. Oh my!!

Andrew - you are so super smart and funny. You have the biggest heart out of anyone - maybe even bigger than your Daddy's and that's pretty hard to beat!! You have conversations as if you are an adult and we consciously have to remember that you are ONLY five years old sometimes. You get so tickled sometimes and you get us laughing so hard because when you laugh - the whole room is lighter. You are so creative in building and creating stuff - even making up complex sounding words to describe things. You are extremely innovative and love to use your imagination. We love you more than words can describe. I love you, my sweet "Monkey". You are my heart and I love you bigger than the moon and the stars and the oceans and the universe. Even bigger than the "studyverse" - and you assure me that is a lot! :)

Sweet Kiddo Pics

Here is Andrew testing out his new puppy pillow/sleeping bag combo I found on sale at Wal-Mart. He & Alyssa both got one and they love them! Best buys!! :)

I caught Alyssa standing RIGHT in front of the tv again because she gets soooo excited over her Mickey Mouse Clubhouse... I just had to sneak a picture for the memories... :)

Posing with Mommy's Hat

One afternoon while the boys had gone fishing, Alyssa & I hung out. We didn't have much to do so this was how we filled some of our time :)










I think she got the hang of it :) Then she took off crawling with my hat giggling as she crawled as fast as she could :)

Martial Arts Lessons

And here is a picture of Alyssa with her baby giving brother some love before he headed to his class... so sweet! :)


Andrew & David began Martial Arts classes the week before Andrew's 5th Birthday. Here are a few pictures of them dressed ready to head to their first class:

Valentine's Day 2012

Here's a picture of David helping Andrew put the finishing touches on his Valentine's for his friends at daycare...

Here's my sweet dessert on Valentine's night from my boys :)

Snow in Waco

On February 13, 2012... we got snow... oh yeah... that was about the extent of it! :)