Daniel is 12!!

A long time ago, now, we celebrated Daniel's 12th birthday. 12 years old already! He is growing to be a young man...still has a sensitive heart and is quite thoughtful and sensitive of others. He is sure growing up!

 Matthew, Jennifer and Evelyn all chipped in to get Daniel a remote controlled car. Actually, a truck. He really wanted one, and was really happy to get it! Spoiled guy! His card from his siblings was interesting...the different thoughts reflect the siblings thoughts pretty accurately.

He had to try it out right away. Fortunately he thought that doing it without the sound effects was the best option. :)

He also got a ping pong set from his older siblings. Spoiled!

With lots of restrictions still in place we opted for playing an Exit Game. They are wonderful games! I remember spending hours making treasure hunts for the kids' birthdays...here is a premade game full of puzzles (that have no mistakes in them!) and are real brain teasers.

We learned that it is best to ignore the time suggestion to the game and give it lots of extra hours to do it justice...so many hours to tackle the game! We also use our photo copy machine on any clues that might otherwise be destroyed, so we can pass it on to another family if they also like it.

Ping pong time! The chandelier shouldn't need to be a problem...but if you are still learning, it just might get in the way a little!

Daniel worked on his birthday cake himself. I love that I my role is to serve the cake and clean up in the kitchen.

Daniel chose a fondue for dinner. It required a lot of patience, having 8 of us and only one pot.

But it was delicious!

Everyone had to try out the ping pong with Daniel.

But, to Evelyn's great disappointment, he did not share the RC toy. He certainly enjoyed it though!