Birthday Questionnaires

I almost forgot about the tradition I started last year with the kids. Audrey and Henry's birthday questionnaires last year were fun, quick and cute and I'm glad I remembered to do it again, albeit a little late... :)

So, without further ado...

Audrey's 2013 Birthday 20 Questions

1. What is your favorite color? Pink & purple
2. What is your favorite toy? My Little Ponies
3. What is your favorite fruit? Apples & bananas
4. What is your favorite TV show? My Little Pony
5. What is your favorite thing to eat for lunch? Sandwiches (peanut butter & jelly or peanut butter & honey)
6. What is your favorite outfit? Church clothes
7. What is your favorite game? Slap Jack & Cootie
8. What is your favorite snack? Popcorn
9. What is your favorite animal? Cats & Horses & Dogs
10. What is your favorite song? My Little Pony song
11. What is your favorite book? Monkey books
12. Who is your best friend? Diana (from her Kindergarten class)
13. What is your favorite cereal? Honey Nut Cheerios
14. What is your favorite thing to do outside? Playing chase, playing "Tiger" with Taelin, Addie and Ariana
15. What is your favorite drink? Milk, water and apple juice
16. What is your favorite holiday? Christmas
17. What do you like to take to bed with you at night? My tiger, Cootie and Twilight (a My Little Pony plush)
18. What is your favorite thing to eat for breakfast? Honey Nut Cheerios
19. What do you want for dinner on your birthday? Mac & Cheese
20. What do you want to be when you grow up? A cowgirl

Henry's 2013 Birthday 20 Questions

1. What is your favorite color? Blue
2. What is your favorite toy? Car Garage
3. What is your favorite fruit? Banana
4. What is your favorite TV show? Diego
5. What is your favorite thing to eat for lunch? Nuggets
6. What is your favorite outfit? My Dinosaur shirt (he was wearing it at the time)
7. What is your favorite game? Hungy, Hungry Hippos
8. What is your favorite snack? Fruit snack.... & Red Vines
9. What is your favorite animal? Monkey!
10. What is your favorite song? Dinosaur Train song
11. What is your favorite book? A ducky book (I have no idea if he wants one or if he's talking about one we have...)
12. Who is your best friend? Jesus (okay, that's just cute!)
13. What is your favorite cereal? Honey Nut Cheerios
14. What is your favorite thing to do outside? Blow bubbles & feed fish
15. What is your favorite drink? Chocolate milk
16. What is your favorite holiday? Easter
17. What do you like to take to bed with you at night? All of my duckies (he has three, plus his pillow pet)
18. What is your favorite thing to eat for breakfast? Chocolate milk & red vines (No, I don't really give him that...)
19. What do you want for dinner on your birthday? Beanie-weenies
20. What do you want to be when you grow up? Cat in the Hat

I'm amazed at how many of these things have remained the same over the past year. I'm already looking forward to next year to see what changes, and what doesn't! :)

Marshmallow and Toothpick Construction

This activity may have been one I recently found on Pinterest, but it's also one I've known about for a long time. (That's just my justification for being too lazy to find the Pinterest source...) I made it more palatable by buying flavored marshmallows. They turned out to be a bit stickier than regular marshmallows, resulting in less-stable structures, but the kids had a blast. Honestly, I was done long before they were, but, like the Baking Soda Swamps, it kept them busy for quite a while and I didn't have to worry about the whining (fighting/screaming/crying/general insanity) that typically comes from their room. 

I made the simple house for Henry because he was really overwhelmed at first and couldn't figure out what to do with his construction supplies.

He got into it, eventually.

I will definitely do this one with the kids again. Maybe next time we'll try regular marshmallows to see if those hold up a bit better.

Henry's 4th Birthday Celebration

Ever since Audrey's birthday, Henry has been asking and asking about his own birthday. He really wanted it to be the day after Audrey's. Good thing he only had to wait ten days or we all would have gone crazy.

When the magical day finally arrived, it started out quite a bit like any other day. Audrey went to school. Dad was at work. Though, I do believe that his sister was the first one to wish him a Happy Birthday. She even beat me to it.

He requested Beanie-Weenies for dinner, his favorite! Grammy patiently agreed to make this for him, after the previous night's discussion failed to change his mind about it. ;)

Grammy and Papa had business at the MTC, so we started the present-opening festivities before the cake and candles event.

Grammy had noticed that one of Henry's favorite shirts was getting a bit small and found a replacement. Henry, as you can tell, was overjoyed. But, his enthusiasm reached new heights as the next gift was taken out of the bag.....

It's too bad a picture can't capture the giggle-squeal that came out of my boy at this moment.

So, we had to put it on right away and then the two kids raced around the house to self-made flying and other superhero sound effects.

Grandpa T sent "DOLLARS!" We counted them. He was very pleased to have four of them since he is four and he told us so... ;)

At this point, I think he was over the moon.

I think greeting/birthday cards still confuse him a bit.

Busy, Busy Town

Can we just imagine that these two are always this wonderful together? Yes, let's do... 

When the cousins arrived, we broke out the cake. (Henry requested strawberry cake with lemon frosting. It seems that he was channeling his father at the moment he asked.)

As it turns out, the frosting was too sweet for him and he didn't want to eat much more than a bite or two. We'll just have to mark that in our brains in case he asks for something equally interesting next year.

The gift from Audrey (even to her own surprise) was a stomp rocket. We put that to use a few days later, and I suppose I'll have to blog those pictures soon.

Every boy needs a matchbox car garage with ramps! It took both of his parents about a half hour to put it all together, which was a bit better than me putting together Audrey's My Little Pony castle by myself the week before.

Another lovely birthday. Simple and quiet, just the way we like it... it won't be long before friend parties are the order of the day... *Shudder!*

So, Happy Birthday to my boy! He's growing up so fast!