Mikey Turns 5

Mikey turned 5 on May 18.  He is so exceed to be growing up, he is pretty much excited by everything.  Mikey is a fun little soul and doesn't have very many strong opinions.  Getting ready for his birthday he couldn't decide what he wanted to ask for, and we couldn't figure out what he would want either.  I had to take him to Toys R Us one night and just walk around so he could figure out what he wanted.  He still didn't have any really strong opinions.  He also didn't know what kind of cake he wanted. Finally a few days before his birthday he settled on a Rainbow Dash cake.  

One thing he was certain of was what he wanted for his birthday dinner...Crabs.  He talked about it constantly.  So we decided that since it was kind of expensive, and James and Brooke weren't going to eat them, and we didn't want to do all the work for Billy we would let him have a special dinner with Mom and Dad after the others went to bed.  He loved it, and it was fun just talking and talking to Mikey.  

Mikey eating his corn. 

 With how enthusiastic he started eating I was worried we weren't going to have enough crab for him.  but he eventually got board of how slow of a process it all is and decided to be done.

Dipping his crab in the butter.

Some things about Mikey at 5-years-old:

We finally decided to get Mikey some Golf Clubs.  He loved going golfing with his Grandad last year and talks about going with his Dad all the time.  He was pretty excited about the gift and was pretty impressive starting out.  

Mikey chose to have a Rainbow Dash cake, so we had to do two cakes.  One chocolate that we would actually want to eat, and one rainbow cake, because it just seemed wrong to do a rainbow dash cake but not have a rainbow cake.  

boys and squirt guns...poor Brooke

He also got a slip and slide from his Grandparents.  The kids have all been having a blast on it all summer.  Although since his birthday was on a sunday he didn't get to try it out until the next day. 

She wasn't too excited about it. 

Billy is the most fearless of all the kids, nothing seems
to bother this kid!

Mikey making his brothers scream

 Mikey is such a fun, loving, good kid.  He is the one I can count on to do whatever I ask him to do and follow directions.  He is a good example for his other siblings.  He still talks and talks and talks.  Whenever we play the quite game it always ends by Mikey claiming "I won" even though nobody else has said a word.  He loves making friends and whenever we go to a park he always finds a new friend.  He is a sensitive little soul also, he hates being reprimanded and doing something wrong.  He is still a tiny little guy.  Every time we leave the house I can count on someone asking me if he and Billy are twins.  We love Mikey and are so glad he joined our family 5 years ago.