Benji turned 6 on Wednesday June 29th! He was so excited for his birthday this year and has been counting down since Ben’s bday.

an early morning birthday picture

We started off the day with presents. He was up at 6am waiting and asking if it was time. He normally wakes up between 7:30 and 8:00 but as he told us the night before he “would probably be too excited to sleep” 🙂

giddy giddy boy

Here he is with all his spoils.

We spent the morning getting to know all of the new toys. All of the kids were super excited to help discover them with their big brother.

walkie talkies are awesome

Rose helping play with the new Ben 10's.

New Sonic game for the PSP!

After lunch we skyped with Pacen, Camry and Claira and then had some of the cousins over to play. Everyone played really well. We tried his new game Make n Break that he got from my parents and Ryan was over so we taught the older cousins a Pirate Game that he had brought.

SKYPE is 'not' as fun as playing BUT we will take what we can get.

And when Ben got home from work we loaded up the kids and headed to Chuck E Cheese. We played games, ate Pizza, got scared by Chuck E, played more games and spent our tickets.

someone is getting TOO BIG for the little rides.

He was excited about his own soda and needed a picture showing that it is red soda

After Chuck E Cheese we stopped over at Grandma and Grandpa Netteshiem’s new house to see it for the first time and Benji got to run around with his cousins. He also got his present from his Grandparents – K’nex – and then we came home and sang happy birthday and ate cupcakes and went to bed.

It took him 8 tries to blow them out so I hope he wasn't wishing for anything important 🙂

Tonight we will have a PARTY with cousins and the birthday week will be over. He is already getting smart enough to make it last all week. He wanted Tacos for his dinner but we were already going to eat at Chuck E Cheese so he needed the Tacos the night before and a cousin party later and … tonight will be the end and our oldest child will be all done ‘turning 6’. He is a great kid. Happy Birthday Buddy.