Read this post first and then the one underneath.On Mar. 13 - T. turned 4 years old so he had a special day with Opa and Oma.
Opa went to pick him up at his house before his Mama left for work - he was still sleeping so Opa had to wait for him to get up. Oma was at home making breakfast and wondering why the two guys weren't showing up to eat it. We had pancakes because that is one of T.'s favorites.
After breakfast Oma went grocery shopping while Opa and T. stayed at home and did some interesting things like bathing Abby, cracking walnuts and picking out the good parts to eat. Then they played with Lego for a while and finally with the construction straws. You can see the nice tower that they built.
There was also some time for playing Jenga. They got lots of blocks out of the tower before it collapsed.
Oma made some chocolate cup cakes and T. licked the batter off the beaters - he got a little beard from the batter so Opa made himself a beard to match.
4 comments:
Happy Birthday to such a big boy! What a joyous day. Looks like you all had such a great time. We like to tell people about Helmut and how great he is with the kids. Not to mention our A. Jean who is sweet, caring and a great baker. : ) Enjoy your little guy! What a blessing.
Cousins in Lincoln say, "that tower looks really cool" and "really tall".
Looks like Opa and Oma had just as much fun. Age doesn't matter when it comes to having fun.
Those construction straws are very good things for a 4 year old. I went looking for some new ones to give him for his birthday gift but couldn't find any in the various stores that I tried. Over the years I think our boys had at least three sets of such things (the blue ones are the most recent and probably weren't used too often because the whole set seemed tobe intact.)
we ended up givng T. a set of Lincoln logs for his gift.
I believe Jim and Myrna gave Matthew the set of Constructo-Straws. I would say a few have been lost over the years. Since the boys were here this morning while I was reading your blog, and they got to see the pictures, the Constructo-Straws were what they wanted to play with. They have played with them in times past, but seemed to be tickled to revisit the activity.
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