Our birthday boy

 Benjamin was so excited about his birthday this year.  He was dressed and at the breakfast table in no time flat.  By 7am all the presents were open and we were putting batteries in his remote controlled car.  December is an exciting month for our family.

 Ben's birth mother sent a minecraft spider jockey pack.  He was thrilled!  He even took it to school to show his classmates.

B-day interview:

Who is your favorite person?
"My Mom and my birth-mom; and Mrs. Kinden"

What is your favorite color?
blue, green, all the colors I have with me.

What is your favorite TV Show?
a lego show

What is your favorite sport?
building / building stuff in minecraft

What is your favorite song?
I really don't have a favorite song.

What is your favorite cereal?
 I have a favorite breakfast - toast with butter and hot chocolate in the winter and ordinary toast with butter on it in the summer.

Who is your best friend?
Cole Venditti, Cole Valentino, Megan, Ava, Jerico,

What do you want to be when you grow up?
 Structural engineer like my daddy.

What is your favorite book?
Books about lego guys

What are you good at?
Building stuff in minecraft and legos

Where would you like to go on vacation?
Disney

What is your best memory?
getting the lego set I always wanted

If you had $1000 how would you spend it?
 I would get more and get a real iron man suit.

If you had one wish what would it be?
 Iron man suit

What is your favorite ice cream?
 I don't have a favorite - I'm not fond of ice cream.

Who is your biggest super hero?
 Lego Iron man

What do you like to do with your brothers and sister?
Nothing with them- just my mom

What do you want to do before your next birthday?
 Go on a date with my mom - to target and get a lego set.

First day of school

Dunk tank

 Our neighbor's son graduated from high school this year.  Yesterday their family had a graduation party.  The favorite event of the party for my children was the dunk tank.  (That and the soda and cake.)  The kids had a great time dunking each other and Benjamin went to bed requesting a dunk tank for his next birthday.  (In December??? really???)

Monkey-en around

Tornado

Who would have thought that we would have a tornado here in Upstate NY.  We did -- last Tuesday and it took out our tree by the sandbox.  Here are a few pictures.  It also took out our some of our garden.  I'm hopeful that most of the potatoes survive.

Adirondack Animal Park

Alec had a dentist appointment in Albany this week.  Joseph took the day off work and we took all the kids to the zoo.  The kids had a ball.  Here were our favorite photos from the day's adventure.

The zoo had a safari ride and this was Liver Lips' friend approaching the kids on the ride.  They were hoping for a juicy kiss.

 The petting zoo portion was one of our favorites.