Owen's 5!

After months of intermittent papier mache work, we painted the quadruped. . .

green. It was a turtle-dinosaur sort of thing.
Caedmon woke up from a nap in time to get in on the action.
finally a finished pinata

The weekend before Owen's birthday, we entertained the family. What great hosts we are. Aren't we? Not just anyone will send their guests right into the chicken pen. That's some real fancy highfalutin' entertainin' for ya.
The Ring cousins each got a swing at the pinata with Pa Billy officiating.

Owen knocked that sucker right off the rope,
and Electra finished off the quadruped. We learned not to put chocolate in a pinata - even in April.
Caedmon got his swing a little later.
After birthday brownies
and presents
Owen got some expert help from Roman to put together
this:
He is really into Legos these days. So is Caedmon - except he wants to eat them.

Owen got a new (previously owned) play table a bit early.
It makes a great place to keep his Legos - up in the attic bedroom which we are planning to finish for him this summer. He is enjoying his personal space with his cool big boy things up there. Five is definitely very grown up.