Guess Who's 6?

Happy 6th Birthday Donovan!!

This year, Donovan wanted to celebrate pirate style. So we had a fun shindig a few days before the actual birthday.

The pirate ship cake.
He has so many friends of all ages, so we had to limit it this year to kids from his classes at church and school. Captain Dan took them on a treasure hunt. They went through areas like the treasure tree of the pirate squirrel, Blue Beard's slide, Strawberry Cove, the Secret Stairs of Salty Sam, etc. The kids had a great time.

Then they found their loot. Play coins and eye patches!

Then they got to decorate piratey/sea masks. (Elliott, Ethan Olds, Ethan Knickerbocker)

I didn't think this would last long, but they actually colored for a while and chit-chatted about lots of important kid things. (Donovan and Zack Knickerbocker)

Then we had our parrot pinata.

Dono got just a bit dizzy from the beginning turning. And they all got tons of candy!

We got to end his friend party with a buckaneer feast of fish sticks or parrot (chicken) nuggets, oranges (to prevent the scurvey), fish crackers, and pretzel swords. It was a swell time! (pictured: Jared King and Donovan)

Then today on Donovan's actual birthday, we went to Red Robin, of course. YUM! The kids love to go here on birthdays because you get a free sundae! (Adults can also get a free burger if you sign up for their email club in addition to the sundae.)

YUM

Papa Earl pretending to snitch Donovan's cherry. :)

Happy Birthday my sweet boy! We love you and are very glad that we have you in our family. :)