Hunter's 6th Birthday "Pool Party"

It just so happened that Hunter's birthday weekend was also our first weekend without any dance events, thus our first free weekend of the summer. We discussed this with Hunter - "Would you like to stay home and have a party? Or would you like to go camping for your birthday?" His response was, "Can we go to that place where there's a jump for my bike?" "Yes, we can try" "ok, let's go camping!".

So we planned on doing a fun "camping birthday" for him. As it turned out, this was not a "free" weekend for anyone else to get out of town, so it would have just been our family. Again, we discussed this with him - "We can still go camping, but it'll just be us" "That's ok" "There won't be any presents" "Can't you buy them all??" - lol..... "NO". So we negotiated with him to just stay in town and have a party, that way his cousins and friends could celebrate with him.

We threw together a last minute "pool party" the week before. I figured if all of his friends were in the pool, maybe he'd finally get in too. WRONG!! The boy wanted NOTHING to do with the pool! Regardless, he eventually got wet, just not to his liking....

This boat is from Grandpa Dennis. He gave it to us last fall, before he passed away, for us to give to Hunter. We hung on to it until his birthday, which gave it even more meaning - for him to have a gift from "Grandpa in Heaven". He even said that he knew Grandpa was watching him drive it....



Hmmm.... someone seems to be getting an attitude!!







Hunter thought it was fun do go around blasting everyone with his new super soaker, but finally got what was coming to him ~ a quick dip in the pool!! He was NOT very happy about it either!