Water Splashing Festival

One of our kids favorite festivals. They had three full days off of school, and got to water fight every day! I got out with Gabrielle a little bit, but not into the massive fighting. It gets a bit dangerous. And the tradition: daily hot chocolate with marshmallows and sprinkles! I ran out of packets and made some from scratch, it was delicious.

The following week Tobin's class had their own water splashing festivities:

 His minority outfit is way too small, but he was still looking handsome and it makes his eyes SO blue.

 Daddy participated with him, they both looked sharp in their outfits and had a great time.

Tobin Turns 6!!!

Granddaddy sent Tobin this model airplane. They worked (for a few hours) on it.
Tobin did love it!


 Since Tobin's birthday always falls on Water splashing festival here, we celebrated a day early to see if more folks would be able to come.
His pancake:

 Bella plays 'Happy Birthday' on the piano

 And they gave cards (this was the morning before the afternoon party)
Each card said something like, "I am sorry I am mean to you sometimes"

His party was STAR WARS themed. He decided this at Christmas, When Uncle Herschel brought the movies and we watched them.

These are the 'Tie Fighters' Edible version:

Pineapple plus light saber edible sticks.

coloring pages...

Pin the light saber on Yoda.

The bottom quote: 'Judge me by my size do you?'
I love Yoda quotes!

The storm trooper masks were the party favors.

We played shoot the storm troopers (with nerf guns)

We had a carry-the-egg relay: storm trooper eggs.

cupcakes with black icing:

The epic duel on top a delicious chocolate chip pound cake.

 You usually do not ice this cake, but why not?

 The egg relay!

Tobin invited five kids from his class and three came, we also had our other ex-pat friends there and an ex-pat family that lives an hour away made the drive. Their son is a little older than Tobin but they get along great!

This was a great party! All his school friends' parents stayed so it was great to get to know them.

Tobin is a blast! He is fun, competitive, tender-hearted, but has a stout heart. He is a great brother. We are so thankful for him! I love homeschooling him, he is growing into a great reader and loves math, but would always prefer to be playing, of course. The highlight of our home school morning is jumping on the trampoline together or playing math games!
Happy Birthday Tobin, we are blessed to have you in our fam!

April Round Up: last of Thailand

Some more 3D art Museum photos!

At our dentist you get to wear shades to block the bright light.

As mentioned this team gave us lots of free time as couples. This was on our 7 hour date. We went shopping, watched a movie and ate lots!
We like tuk tuk rides too, especially when I don't have to worry about a child falling out of it!

This was at beast burger. so yum!

(if any of these are reposts of pics, it is a function of my brain mush)

April Round Up: Elephant Riding and More

 We finally decided it was time our family ride some elephants. The last time we did this Sophia was two or three. Now we all could enjoy and remember!

 Three on one, three on another.

 Elephants are pretty amazing, and these are trained well. At the show, they played soccer, painted, and stole their trainer's hats. It was very entertaining.

 The down hills were pretty bumpy and you had the feeling you would fall off, but we didn't!

Here are the pics the elephants painted: Pretty amazing.

This is one of our kids favorite parts of Thailand: Tuk Tuk rides.
They got to ride up front on this one.

And while mommy was at the doc all day: ice skating, see, mommy I am not crying anymore.

And this lady has us beat. She puts all four on her moto. Maybe I could try it....