Happy 7th Birthday Ammon

Today was all about the little things that made the day such a great day! Yesterday Ammon told us what he wanted to do on his birthday and we tried as hard as we could to do it all.

This morning Johann got up and went to go get Ammon up to go get Daylight Donuts for breakfast, and he found Ammon sitting at the kitchen table staring at his presents! He said he'd only been up for a few minutes.

Ammon woke up to a dollar bill from the toothfairy from his lost tooth yesterday. Then Johann and Ammon went to Daylight Donuts to pick out birthday donuts. At the donut shop he got lot of Happy Birthday wishes.

We put the candle into his donut and Ammon asked to light the match, so we let him. He was super excited to light his own candle.

Way back in January Ammon spotted a plane carrier at Target and asked if he could get it. We told him we weren't going to just get it right after Christmas, so he asked if we'd get it for his birthday-6 months away. Well today he opened the carrier and was just as excited as he was back in January. He also got a collapsable bug holder. He also got sparring gear in April which was part of his birthday presents.

Then he went downstairs and played Lego Batman he got from a friend for his birthday. When he was done with that he got to pick what show to watch.

For lunch we had stuffed shells, which was his dinner request, but since we wouldn't be home for dinner, we had it for lunch.

After lunch we went and got dad to go to the Coralville Aquatic Center. Ammon and I went up to the purple slid and he was tall enough to go on it! He went down the slide over 12 times.

After the pool we went to Taco Bell for a quick dinner. Ammon asked for a mexican pizza and since it was his birthday we said he could get one.

Then it was time for me to go to a Safety Village meeting and Corrine's softball game. Dad took all the kids to the game and I met them there afterwards.

I had a book on hold at the library so we headed there. Corrine, Ammon and Rebecca each signed up for the summer reading program. Corrine and Ammon did a scavenger hunt in the children's room. Ammon picked out books about Taekwondo and Korea.

As we walked to the van I asked Ammon what his favorite part of his birthday was and he said "getting to pick all these books out at the library!" (That made me so happy to hear!)

When we got home at 8:30 we got pj's on and watched "We Bought A Zoo" while eating Klondike bars which was his treat request!

It was such a fun day full of doing things that Ammon requested. I love hearing the fun things they want to do, or eat on their birthday.

Ammon has such a fun and diverse personality. One minute he's silly and wild, the next he's loving and gentle.  He loves to play with friends or siblings, but he also needs his alone time. He is super loving to Rebecca and will be her puppy or servant or bestfriend. He loves to read and can get caught up in a book for a long time.
It's really neat to watch him at Taekwondo. He can go in after having a bad or an unfocused energy day, and instantly he gets focused and calm and he walks out grounded. I love watching the transformation on the "been a hard days."

Last Saturday after his friend birthday party we had a family party with Grandma & Grandpa and Uncle Justin. He got lots of Legos and some neat spy gear.

 

We love you Ammon Eli! We are so greatful to have you in our family each and every day.

Ammon's Lego Party

Ammon LOVES Lego's. He loves reading Lego books, playing with Lego's, dreams of getting EVERY Lego set out there, so it seemed natural that he would want a Lego Party for his birthday. I scoured the Internet for fun Lego party ideas. We used some with our own tweaks, or just made them up on our own.

This picture was the inspiration for the cake. I asked Ammon to bring me a Lego figure that he wanted his cake to look like. This one won the prize.

When the kids got here, they each got a Lego 3-n-1 vehicle to build. Each decided which of the 3 vehicles to build.

The kids all really liked building their vehicles for the race.

We had some issues with some of the vehicles not wanting to stay together, so we only had one official race before moving on.

We played a Lego drop game. We collected a bucket of black wings and 2 empty pickle jars. The kids had 1 minute to drop the wings from the bench into the jar.

Then we played Angry Birds Lego figurine style. We set up 10 Lego figures on wood blocks for each kid, then gave the kids star marshmallows to flick at the figures. They had 1 minute to get them down. Rebecca got to throw her marshmallows since she hasn't learn to flick yet.

After some more active (LOUD) games we played a few rounds of Lego Bingo which I found here: http://www.howtocookthat.net/public_html/lego-party-games-more/ . There were lots of different bingo cards to print out. We used little Lego's as markers.

The Birthday boy and his friends.

The Birthday boy and his silly friends!

 
Remember that face picture from before-here it is on the cake. It took ALOT of yellow food coloring to get the perfect yellow Lego color frosting! Ammon and his friends really liked the cake. They all wanted to have an eye or mouth so they could get some black frosting.

I wanted to make a Lego pinata, but Ammon just wanted goodie bags. Each kid got to take home their Lego vehicle, a Lego party figurine and some candy. I found a Lego font that I used for the bag labels.

This was such a fun and energized party!! Happy 7th Birthday Ammon-we love you!!