Tiberias Turns 5

Tiberias was confused this Summer about birthdays. Luke celebrated his bday on his birthday at my parents house. Then again with cake, sharing a party with his cousins Jacob and Ezra at the swimming pool. Then we had a birthday for Luke and Ty together when we got back to Rapid City. So Tiberias thought since Luke had two birthday parties we turned 7 in July and turned 8 in August.

We had Ty's birthday party weeks before he turned 5. That confused him as well.
He got so tired of waiting to actually turn 5 years old I had to make him a paper chain to track the days. He took a link off the chain every day until he turned 5.

On Tiberias' actual birthday we did not plan anything with friends. We were going to give him his choice of dinner and his choice of a movie during dinner and that's it.
But as the day approached friends happened to ask if we could get together on Wednesday which happened to be Ty's bday.

So this is how his 5th Birthday played out:
Breakfast then a scavenger hunt. I decided that morning to cut out some paper balloons and write clues on them so he could have some fun to start the day. The treasure at the end was new silly straws to share with his siblings.

At 10am we met friends at the park; Ty's friends Eli Hickman, CJ and Teddy Aston,  my friends Natasha and Martha, Athena's friends Abi and Alexia. We played an hour and a half and had a blast. I think that God planned it. That Heavenly Father put the thought into Martha's head and then into Natasha's head to ask us to get together on that day specifically so Ty would be able to play with his friends on his birthday.

We went home for lunch and I let him watch Power Rangers even though I usually only let him watch it on Saturdays.
For dinner we watched a movie as a family. The kids at Ty's choice...chicken nuggets. But Ster and I were in the mood for pizza so we had Pizza Ranch and the kids joined our meal after they ate their chicken nuggets.

Wednesday was also special because of Meet the Teacher Night at Valley View Elementary. The boys were so excited to find out who their teachers would be and see their classrooms.
I was so relieved to meet their teachers. Luke's teacher this year seems nice Mrs Rauerk. I can't pronounce her name. Ty's teacher I do know a bit about. She is the fun kindergarten teacher that I was hoping he would be assigned to! Mrs. Macziewski...even harder to pronounce.

So Tiberias had a wonderful birthday. And he is ready to start school. He finally knows almost every letter in the alphabet and loves reading me every letter he sees. We are still working on what sounds they all make.

Here are photos from his birthday party some weeks ago. He invited Julia Elliott and Luke invited Logan Stone. We went to Chuck E Cheese and had a blast.

 Since I made Luke's cake in July in Vegas I made Ty's choice of cake for their joint birthday party at Chuck E Cheese. Luke had a Kirby cake and Ty chose Power Rangers.