Jonah turns 7!

This past weekend Was Jonah's birthday, On Sunday January 30th he turned 7 years old! He is getting so big so fast. Don't all parents say that !? Well he is, he can read chapter books already, in 1 year his reading has skyrocketed. He is doing so well in grade 1, keeping him back from starting school by 1 year was a good choice for a January baby, he'd be on par for gr.2 (as he is at a grade 3 level in a lot of areas, according to his excellent teacher Ms.Hall) but this way he can excel and mature socially which he is doing well with too.

We had quite a busy birthday weekend planned for Jonah. First in the morning he stopped at Uncle B's and Auntie Chrissy's where Abby & Zach & Uncle gave him his first Birthday present of the weekend, Uncle Steve, Auntie Sue, Alyssa & Sydney were there too and he got his 2nd gift of the birthday palooza weekend!! Then he had his school age friends birthday party at Kidz Quarterz. He had all friends his age there, no siblings even!
Then we drove Jonah to West ed where we went to Chapters and Jonah spent some birthday gift cards and met up with Uncle Ben & Brett (Who drove up from Calgary for Jonah). We then had supper at Old Spaghetti Factory in the mall with Mom/Dad, Logan, Alexis, Grandma/pa, Nana/Papa, Uncles, Aunty Sarah and Uncle Jeremy. After Supper we went to our ROOM for the night at the Fantasyland to open presents and eat leftover birthday cake from the morning with everybody from dinner. Then when everyone left we went walking around the mall just the 4 of us (Alexis went to Grandma's for the night), Daddy got a water massage thing and I took the boys to the candy store. We stayed out till the mall closed, got booster juice, saw the mall go to sleep. We went to our room to enjoy the massive hot tub before bed. The boys stayed up really late till 10:30pm!
On Sunday we got up and went for breakfast for buffet in the malls Cafe Europa. Then we went to the theater where Uncle Jeff had a theater for him to play video games in with his brother and Uncle Ben & Brett. After lunch Brett had to drive home and Ben came with us to the Waterpark for the afternoon. The kids had a blast and we forced them down some tube rides. They loved the waves and the cool big spray park, it seemed pretty new, at least in the last 4 years since we were last there. Then we took Jonah to Red Robin for supper as he had a free birthday meal sent to him in the mail and he was dying to use it!
Now we were at the end of it all, we went and picked up Alexis and Packer from Grandma & Grandpa's and headed home.
I'd say Jonah was spoiled and it was a very fun weekend for All!!

Posing with his Harry Potter cake

Kidz Quarterz party room

Playing games with his friends

Trying out the bunkbeds in our theme room

Party time with the extended family in our hotel room

Alexis didn't stay the night but she wanted to break in Logan's bed
The boys had a view of Edmonton, Jonah said "I can see the whole world!"

My brothers and Keith messing up the parents bed

Alexis in the huge tub

Time for hot tub
Logan went to a birthday party for a friend from playschool and he got a beach ball in his loot bag so the boys had something to play with!

The best family shot I could get

10:30 and it was time for bed
They even had curtains for each bed

Dancing time in the morning before we left

Upstairs behind the scenes at the theater putting our game in and getting controllers

The boys could sit anywhere and they ran straight to the top

View from below while they play

No pictures from the waterpark, I didn't want to bring my camera in and then have to take it back.
But here is Logan after we left the mall at 4:30 for supper at Red Robin, we wore him out with the past 36 hours!

HAPPY 7th BIRTHDAY
JONAH DOUGLAS PERRY