Leith turns 6!

Leith's birthday weekend started with an 'Ice Age' movie marathon on Friday night. Coral joined in after work to check out the third, and latest installment, 'Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs'. The kids had a living room sleep over afterwards.

Leith ordered waffles for breakfast Saturday. As I began to prepare them, I was surprised to discover that I no longer owned a waffle iron. Coral seems to have lost it-how is that possible? A quick run to the store got us back on track. The boys played 'recumbent' Wii games while waiting for breakfast. The plan had been to go miniature golfing, but an impressive snow storm turned us to plan B: shopping for me and the girls and a movie for the guys. They saw the Percy Jackson film. Niall was not happy that it didn't follow the book more closely.

Sunday-Leith's birthday, was a long day of waiting to eat cake and open presents. I am still under the weather and couldn't pull off a homemade cake. This "lovely" Costco creation was brought in to fill the void.

Kevin's parents, Coral, Lance(and his brother, Jonathon), and Jack joined us for dinner and the singing of 'Happy Birthday'.

The candle is soon out,

and the presents unwrapped! Here, Leith opens his new Levi's 511 'Skinny' jeans. He has been wanting some badly and changed into them immediately. It wasn't easy to find them in his size- go me and Dillards.com!

Jack assists Leith in directing his new remote-controlled T-Rex to attack his new army soldiers.

The under-30 crowd finished the evening in the basement playing a loud game of ping-pong.

The evening ended on a bit of a downer when Niall injured the ligaments holding his thumb in place and needed a trip to the urgent care office. He was racing Leith to pick up something on the floor and wrenched his thumb backward. Let's hope it isn't completely torn and that it heals quickly. We will know more in a few days.

The birthday celebration continues today-Leith is sporting a new shirt from Grandma & Grandpa in TX while watching a birthday movie and waiting to be taken out to another dinner with Kevin's parents.

I don't exactly know how this turned into a four day party, but it has been fun. I have been distracted from my near constant mourning of my last little one growing up far too quickly.