Happy Birthday Shane!

My boy up and turned 6 on me.  We started the celebrations on Thanksgiving and Grandma and Grandpa Dettinger's house

 And it worked out nicely that his actual birthday was on a Saturday so we could have fun all day.  He was super excited cause it was his golden birthday this year- 6 on the 6th, and he told me things all day like "this is exactly how I planned my day to be!" and "this is the best day of my life!"  I love how excited he gets about things, he was even happy opening clothes- he told me these are the softest pajamas he's ever had:)

 After opening presents first thing, we picked up his buddy Carter and had breakfast at Burger King and played in the play place.

 We went to Toys r Us and picked out a toy with his 6 dollars from Grandma Elkins, got his Book-It pizza, and just generally did what he wanted.  That night was our ward Christmas party, and they even had a pinata, I think he thought the party may have been for him!

We did cake the next day since there were lots of treats at the party, chocolate per his request.

 A few things about Shane:
-Loves tigers, the color green, outer space, numbers, books, Octonauts, superheroes, cuddling with mom, chocolate, and pretty much life in general.
-He is enjoying school still, he does very well academically and not always as good socially but is trying hard.  Here he is at his little winter program at school, that is him behind one of the microphones

 and with his class.  The 3 girls behind him are his best friends, I think he prefers playing with them because they are a little more mature in their play and more tolerant when he gets a little annoying:)  

- A couple months ago he kissed a girl on the bus.  The bus driver told me after he got off that she told him that wasn't allowed and she thought he might be embarrassed, but she added, "it was very sweet though!"  I asked him why he did that and he was pretty embarrassed but said, "I just thought it would be fun."  We talked about how he needs to be older to kiss girls and he said, "so when I'm older I can kiss all the girls I want?"  and I explained how they still needed to want to be kissed:)  I coaxed it out of him who it was that he kissed- the girl he sits next to, who is a first grader!  I wasn't sure if she was upset by it or not, but when we were trick or treating a girl came up to us and somewhat flirtaciously said, "Hi Shane!"  and when I asked him who it was, he said it was her- yeah she definitely wasn't upset!  He learned his lesson though and hasn't done anything since.
-He is loving drawing and I love finding little things like this around the house.  He told me those are all the layers of the earth underneath the bear, with the orange being lava of course.

I sure love this boy.  He can make me worry and exhaust me but he also makes my heart happy in ways that noone else can.