ben turns 6 in lego style

Ben at six:
What is your ...
favorite color?  Blue
favorite movie? favorite mini-sode is the Mixels (legos).  Favorite movies include all the Star Wars movies.
favorite TV show? Star Wars Clone Wars
favorite game on the iPad? Calling All Mixels
favorite sport? karate
favorite song? he is saying the main Mixels song, but he has been requesting Huey Lewis frequently
favorite friends?  Jayce, Cooper, Sterling and Oliver
favorite book? Danger in the Outlands

What do you want to be when you grow up? Car designer.  He wants to make a company that builds airplane cars.
What are you really good at?  Art (and he really is!), strategy games, counting
Where do you wish you could go on vacation?  Candyland
What would you buy if you had $1000? I would buy.... lots of legos- could make my own house out of legos.
What do you like to do with your friends?  Play and race and have fun.

Ben turned six on the last Saturday of our Christmas break.  He had another anxious night of sleep, waiting for the clock to turn to 7:00 so he could get up and open his family gifts.  He was wide awake at 4 AM and kept a countdown going till 7.  He had picked out some gifts that he wanted to open first- correctly identified the Mixels (he's a little obsessed at the moment).

He decided on a lego themed party, so Richard, Owen and I came up with a few games for his friends to play that afternoon at his party.  We raced lego cars down the Cub Scouts track, while Owen videoed in slo-mo to determine the race winner.  We did a Creationary game where each boy made a construction and the others had to match it, and we did a lego bingo game.  We had 5 boys able to come, from the kindergarten, one from the first grade, and our neighbor.  Owen helped with all the games and they worked out really well.  Ben requested popcorn be served, which was a big hit with all the boys.  We did cupcakes and gifts and then the kids had a few minutes to ransack the play room.

Later that evening, the Delos-Reyes and the Muhly's came over for more cake and a small celebration.

We love our cheerful, smart, not-so-little guy and look forward to a fun year ahead!