Ren is 6!

We took photos of Ren for his 6th birthday (which...how is that even possible that my baby is 6?!?) and I am having the hardest time narrowing them down because...he is a boy of MANY quirks and all of these faces are just different facets of his personality.

SO...
...because it would take longer to narrow them down
...because I know my future self will appreciate ALL the photos
...because this is MY blog...

I'm posting them all. But I will separate it into multiple posts! Here are the first 38, ha!

Ren is the funniest, most creative, most random kid I know. He's so different from his brother and yet they are two peas in a pod. Kindergarten is teaching him so much...he told me today that his math was just so easy, and he surprised us by showing us he knew how to write his last name a month ago!

Ren lost his first tooth on Superbowl Sunday and it was a little traumatizing, but quickly exciting. He got $5 from the tooth fairy!

Ren loves anything relating to art. He loves Minecraft and watching TV. He loves mac n cheese, pizza, and chocolate milk...as well as anything sweet or any candy.

Eating has been a struggle with him, but I feel like he is finally doing better and he will eat when we make him, instead of sitting at the table for an hour.

Ren loves baths, legos, playing with his brother, pretending, footie pajamas, and going to the trampoline park.

Whenever Sutton and I play football catch outside, Ren always kinda does his own thing, then randomly asks me "Do you see any zombies?" I then have to point some out zombies and he uses one of his menagerie of made up weapons to kill them all. It's one of his favorite games.

I still brush Ren's teeth...probably means I baby him. I also love putting my cheek next to his cheek, it's still baby soft. I also carry him out of bed each morning to the breakfast table.

Ren eats maple + brown sugar oatmeal for breakfast most mornings. He eats jelly toast randomly if he doesn't feel like oatmeal. And on weekends, he loves Lucky Charms. Most days, I pack his lunch since he's picky. I usually pack a meat cheese and mayo sandwich, chips, fruit, and a Capri Sun. Suppers are all over the place, but he'd choose Doc Green's mac n cheese if it was up to him.

Halloween 2019

It's so crazy to me that Halloween is already over! We got some snow the evening before, so we woke up to everything dusted with white. It all melted during the day though! The boys wore their Halloween costumes to school. Here are their costumes:

                        

We had an army guy, and Steve from Minecraft.

We had to get our Halloween cat, Luna, in a few photos! She's the favorite lately!

My annual picture with the boys, for the collage:

And Daddy needed one too.

At school, they had the parade over to the nursing home first. I realized next year will be Sutton's last parade! The 5th and 6th graders don't do it. So sad.

Then we had parties in their classrooms. This was the first time I had two in the same school so I had to split my time between classes. I had planned the activity for Ren's class so I stayed there quite a bit longer than in Sutton's.
                  

You can see Ren's costume crumpled on a chair in the background haha. It was so huge and annoying. Hopefully he learned his lesson about hard-to-move-in costumes. One of the moms made these cute treats, and we brought the drinks with jack-o-lanterns drawn on:

Ren's class picture that his teacher, Ms. Koehn took:

I missed the treat portion of Sutton's party but they played Bingo and did a Go Noodle for their activity.

His class picture. The lights in their room are covered with blue cellophane, hence the weird lighting.

After we got home, we played football catch out in the yard while Daddy set up the trailer for our hayrack ride. The dog and cats were all out and playing, it was such a fun afternoon! Then I made mummy hot dogs (hot dogs wrapped in strips of crescent roll with ketchup eyes), stuffing, and apple slices for supper. We took a few photos (the costume ones at the beginning of this post) and then our friends came over to go trick-or-treating with us.

We had (from left to right) Aquaman, Steve, Michael Scott, Batman, army guy, the Flash. Quite the group of boys! We had a fun dance party to Monster Mash:

Then we drove around town, Papa Ed drove the FJ and the boys would get off at all the houses to trick-or-treat. There were THREE houses that gave out full size candy bars!

It started getting really cold so after about 1.5 hours, we decided to end at the really spooky house in our town that goes ALL out decorating with all kinds of scary animatronics. Ren was too scared so I stayed on the hayrack with him and he buried his head in my lap so he didn't have to look at anything. Sweet little guy. Our other buddy who is his age decided to be brave and he came back to the hayrack bawling. Awwwww.

And lastly, here's our collage of me with the boys every Halloween since I was pregnant with Ren! I still love that I got to be a pregnant cheerleader that year! Ha!