Six and Still Sick

Neil-Te turned 6 today. He got to start his day with gifts from the family, and was especially excited to be old enough to receive his own clip light and cd clock radio. Usually we take the day off of school on a birthday and head out for doughnuts and a museum trip, but since Neil-te and I are still so sick, we had a birthday at home. We did take the day off - one of the many perks of a homeschooling schedule- and spent time playing with toys, crafting, listening to stories and music, and playing board games.

Birthday gifts from his bros.

Auntie J. braved our germ-infested home to bring Neil-te a gift and a hand-me-down costume for KiKi. (She did stay in the entryway to avoid too much contamination!)

Working on his new bird feeder from Auntie J. Doesn't he look old?!

Since we were too sick to go to our church dinner tonight, half of the crew went to children's choir practice and the fellowship dinner, while the rest of us stayed home for pizza and sherbet as a dessert. Since I still haven't re-stashed any candles, we had to make do with matches in his sherbet. Yep, not a great mom move. Thankfully, he was thrilled and thought it was silly and fun. I assured him that for his official birthday dinner, we will have real candles to go on his cake.

Oh, and yes, he did wear his new Mimi pjs all day on his birthday! Maybe a birthday at home isn't so bad.