Marilyn, Terry & and Children: Riley's Birthday

HAPPY BIRTHDAY RILEY

The past week we have been celebrating Riley's birthday. He has been pretty excited. He turned 6 years old on Monday. It is hard to believe my first child is 6.
Terry and I decided we would let our kids have a birthday party on even birthdays, starting when they are 4. Riley was really excited to have a party this year. I don't know who was more excited Abbie or Riley. Abbie thought it was her party and she was going to get a Care Bear cake.
I asked Riley what he wanted to do and the only thing he wanted to do was play duck, duck, goose, goose; open presents; and have cake and ice cream. So I started brain storming about ideas. One of the presents Riley was adamant about getting was a pirate lego set. We decided to have a pirate them party. We made a pirate cake, made pirate hats, went on a savager hunt for treasure, and did a fishing pond. The kids had fun, and most important Riley really enjoyed his day. At the end of the day Riley was telling everyone he was 6 years old now. We had to explain, since we had his party on the Saturday before his birthday, that he wasn't 6 yet. He got really sad about this, until he realized he would be getting more presents on his actually birthday.
I got this idea from one of my friends blog. Here are some pictures of Riley over the past 6 years.

Riley's Baby Picture