This year, for the first time, I decided that we'd try having Tommy's birthday party in 6 months from now so that our December wasn't too crowded. He is such a sweetie and happily agreed, he did decide he wants a dinosaur party so we went with that same theme for his birthday. His birthday landed on a Sunday and Vic had to work so he just opened a few presents from us. Here he is happy as can be on his 6th birthday.
On Monday he decided to take minion twinkies as his class treat.
There was another snow storm so we had to shovel before we could even go out and celebrate. Tommy worked on making this mini mountain he was quite proud of.
We picked up his cousins, Will and Sam from school and they all went to the new Disney Dinosaur movie at Edwards then we took him to Toys R' Us to use some birthday money.... dinosaurs to go with his birthday theme.
Tommy's favorite meal is hamburgers so we went to Red Robin as our "fancy" restaurant for him.
We felt weird having cake alone so we let him invite one neighbor friend over and he chose Colter, a boy 4 doors down.
He picked an oreo ice cream cake.
Birthday Boy & his presents
They played for a long time afterward. He was very pleased with his birthday!
Here's a few gifts he got afterwards too.
I'd say he was most excited about this gift from Grandpa Miller. Hot Wheels are super cool in his little world right now. I was okay starting to move away from Thomas finally until I realized it is the exact same expensive thing, except cars instead of trains!
An update on Tommy at 6:
Tommy loves kindergarten and especially his teacher, Mrs. Jones. I love her too so that is a nice start to public schools! Tommy is extremely smart and motivated to keep learning. He was very proud to pass off all of his sight words and start reading before anyone else in his class. I have continued to buy 1st grade math and writing books for him so he is always progressing in his schoolwork.
Tommy is very strict on rules and is our little rule enforcer at our house. He loves to help me with house work and throughout the day he will repeatedly tell me "Mommy, I'll do whatever you want me to do." I'll give him a small task and he can hardly wait to come back and tell me that he did it. He has a very tender heart and is very loving to Vic and I.
If Tommy doesn't know you then he'll hardly look at you or say a word, but once he is comfortable he is very comfortable raising his hand in class and excitedly blurting out a story or running around the house with excited squeals. He's always trying to get Tucker to laugh and because of that is very into potty talk right now.
Tommy still loves trains and can spend half a day setting up his train village, but he is also very into Avenger super heroes, Hot Wheels, and Legos. We also just barely let him learn how to play the Nintendo Game Cube so when he gets screen time he's happily been giving up movie time and trying to master Nintendo's Mario Cart or Shootie Skies on the iPad. He's been begging to buy Mine Craft as well, but I don't want him to get into that yet. He still spends a lot of time playing house as Whitney is always begging to play house all day long.
Overall, he is an amazing, sweet, responsible, and playful little boy... just as every 6 year old should be!!!
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