The Zen Life

We have two Shiny Birthdays in November! Jonah turned 9 and Elijah turned 3:

For Jonah's birthday, he chose a Star Wars the Clone Wars themed sleepover (very Awesome indeed!).


Our table ready for the party (you can't see the 6 bottles of soda and huge bowl of potato chips!)






Jonah's cake (a Lego Clone Trooper from Star Wars: The Clone Wars). We LOVE "Ace of Cakes" here--the boys are always challenging me to create cakes that are Duff-Worthy!

Combine that with Jonah's love of Legos (especially the Lego Star Wars video games) and this is what you get!





We light it up! We had about 10 tween boys here that night! What a loud, rollicking, Joyful night that was! We set up a Star Wars marathon--Most of the boys fell alseep by 1am. Our Jonah and Garrett were up until 3am!!! They Love that Claim to Fame!







Jonah gets a Sims game for his DS from Ryan! Garrett got him Tony Hawk for the DS, and Elijah got him MySims for the DS. Are we sensing a theme here?







Grandma and Grandpa Sirotkin got Jonah this model of the solar system complete with a listing of the exact location of all of the planets for each month through 2010. Jonah actually recognized that Venus and Jupiter were going to be visable in the night sky before it was announced in the news!




Elijah's Birthday fell on Thanksgiving this year! What fun! Turkey and Pumpkin Pie AND Cake!!



When asked what kind of cake he wanted Elijah was very kind: "I want a Triangle Cake!" Later he decided it should be yellow and it should have a "1" on it (because, as he explained "I'm number 1!!")






When it was finished (or almost finished) he realized it needed some tweaking! So he made it perfect!







Elijah LOVES to blow out the candles!! (ANY candles!). In this case, they were Shabbat candles! We couldn't find the birthday candles I bought!!!!




In our home, if you are up when it turns midnight on your birthday--you get to open your presents then!! Of course--the kids always stay up!! This year Elijah got a Dora House (Dora is Elijah's FAVORITE!!! Here he spends the midnight hour decorating it!




Love,
Karen

I love this video!! I want to carry it around with me in my pocket and hand it out to anyone who asks me why I homeschool or how can I be sure my unschooled children with learn "the basics". Just Click on one of the Players in the window--Be sure to pause the purple music player (scroll down--it's on the right!)