
"When I have said my evening prayer
And my clothes are folded on the chair
And Mother switches of the light
I'll still be 6 years old tonight.
But from the very break of day,
Before the children rise and play,
Before the darkness turns to gold
Tomorrow I'll be 7 years old,
7 kisses when I wake
7 candles on my cake."
Traditional Waldorf Birthday Verse
I can hardly believe that my little Ryan is now 7 years old and not so little anymore. I feel blessed everyday that he is a part of our lives. This year we took a road trip to celebrate his birthday and headed down to Florida to see his grandmom and grandpa and have a party with our friends down there. We had the added bonus of a Waldorf Fall Festival and Ryan was able to play a baseball game with his team.
On sunday morning we had a combined birthday party with his friend Addison who has the same birthday as him - except she is a year older. Actually Ryan and Addison planned this party while we ere still living down there and her mom and I just executed it. Addison wanted a gnome and fairy party - so we set to work.
Climbing trees in search of fairies

Dyeing pouches. If you notice Ryan is the green one and he also has a gnome hat that he wanted to dye green so that he can be the addition math gnome.

The kids built fairy and gnome houses. After which we spotted a note that told the children to take a journey and find some treasure.
Their first clue was to "find a boat and bring it to the fairy of the pond. There she will have a treasure waiting"
Off the kids ran to find the fairy by the pond :

The fairy of the pond left the first note in the pic below. The kids took off to the garden and found the gnome and his treasures. The gnome also had the next clue in the second note in the picture:

And they found her and the treasures. She had the next clue which led the kids back to where they built their fairy and gnome houses.

There was the final treasure with a special gift for each birthday child.

The treasure : jewels to make a necklace.

The gang.

Cake!!!yumm . Unfortunatly it was oo windy to light the candles but we are blessed to have children who can use their imagination and enjoy the candles anyway.

One little glitch in all our planning - we forgot forks!! thanks to Jill who lived near by and hopped on Susan's bike, who also lives near by, and grabbed some forks from her house. So while we waited the kids tried their luck on the pinata.


yeah goodies -


Present time. Great gifts from our friends - thank you everyone.

I have to say this guy is my favorite (no offense to anyone else though). Addison's mom made him - isn't he too cute.!! I love the marshmellows!

We had a wonderful time in Florida. Sat night we went out to dinner at the mexican resturant with my parents and they gave him their gift. An awesome doctor's kit complete with working stethascope . Then the resturant sang happy birthday to him and he got to keep a sombrero. I would say he had a nice birthday.!