They're Five!!!!

On January 5th Davis & Dallin turned 5 & I cannot believe how fast the last 5 years have gone. Most of the first few are still a blur, but life with twins gets easier & for that John & I are thankful! The boys decided they wanted to have a party this year & as nervous as I was about the whole thing I think it turned out pretty good. I mean 5 extra boys in the house really isn’t a lot different than how things usually go around here on a daily basis. Two weeks ago we had 9 boys here at one time, so the difference with the party was mostly the cupcakes.
For the party the usual neighborhood gang was present, Jaden, Aydan & Dylan. As well as Ty & Connor their pre-school buddies. We played a couple games where the kids could all win prizes. Mostly noisy toys that we could send home with them & torture their parents. We had cupcakes, opened presents & let them run wild until it was time to go. The kids had a great time.

Davis & Dallin are both infatuated with “getting bigger”. Dallin asked John why he wasn’t as tall as Jaden (neighbor buddy) now that he was five. Jaden was right there & he answered before John with, “because I’m almost six, but you’re getting close”. The morning of their birthday & after many attempts to get both of them out of their jammies, Dallin asked how many minutes until it was his birthday so he could be bigger. I told him all day was his birthday. He said, “so right now is my birthday?”. They need to know things in terms of minutes by holding up their fingers. They think 20 minutes is longer than 1 hour. I tell them what the numbers on the stove need to say before they can play with friends or if we are going somewhere. They do days, by asking how many sleeps until this or that. And without fail when they are tucked into bed both ask, “what is after this sleep?” How they come up with this stuff cracks me up. For Christmas they got binoculars that came with a small pocketknife. After hearing what happened with our friends The Davies’ son, Spencer & his first pocketknife incident, John told Davis & Dallin that when they got a little older they could have them. I knew this would happen when he bought them, but he felt they would forget about them once he had them hidden. Without fail Davis asked to have his because he was five now. John gets to deal with this one……I’m out of it.

I can't imagine life without these two & they always keep us going. They adore Griffen & want to be everywhere he is, especially Dallin. Those two are exactly alike, they could have been twins. They love going to pre-school & Dallin is in a speech class over at the Elementary School & he likes going to "Griffy's school". Davis is turning into our little artist & loves to draw. For Christmas John & I almost bought him his own ream of paper, because he goes through ours so fast. This fall they will start Kindegarten & it just seems so weird that they aren't our little curly-haired, binky boys anymore.

Here are a few pics of the boys through the last five years:

Bring on the next 5!