Quinton turns 6!

Six sure seems old! I can't believe how big my little guy is. To celebrate, here are six things I love about Quinton:

1. He has the most incredible imagination ever. He can play for an hour with an orange without even batting an eye because he has some story going on with it. He makes up games to play with Clara and his friends all the time.
2. He is a loyal friend. Basically, he can beat on his brother and sister all he wants, but you'd better not mess with them!
3. He has the best laugh when he really thinks something is funny, or he's being tickled.
4. When he wants to be nice and helpful, he is such a sweetheart.
5. He puts his whole heart into pretty much anything he does. He is very passionate.
6. He is very thoughtful of others sometimes. He even saves his gumball that he gets in class on Fridays and splits it with his sister.

We celebrated his birthday a day early since there was no school or work due to Veteran's Day.

He got to eat his blue crepe breakfast on the couch while watching cartoons.

We opened presents early so he could play with them.

Here he is excavating his T-Rex that he got. (He's really into dinosaurs lately.)

We all took turns playing his new Super Mario game. 

Then we went to the Boise Zoo. It was just warm enough to still enjoy it, but we had the place pretty much to ourselves. It was a lot of fun.

They fed some meal worms to a sloth bear through that tube.

There's a fun prairie dog exhibit where the kids get to pop up from a tunnel.

Quinton wanted to spend some of his birthday money to buy food for the goats.

Guess who didn't like the goats?

Barry made Quinton's awesome cake this year. He used rice krispy treats and candy to make a volcano. And there are frightened sour patch people fleeing the scene!

This is a picture from a hiking trip he took with Dad on November 9th.

We're so glad to have Quinton. We love him lots!