It seems like for the past few years, poor Cannon has kind of gotten a bum deal on his birthdays. When he turned 9, we had only been in Okinawa for about a week and so knew no one. One year later his best friend, Isaac just moved away about 2 weeks before his birthday. Last year we were in the middle of a typhoon on his birthday and this year we have again moved to a new place and so he hasn't had time to make any friends yet.
So we try our hardest as a family to make up for the poorly played hand by doing every thing his way for the day. He chooses his breakfast (homemade cinnamon rolls), lunch (on the fly and you'll see why) and dinner (macaroni and cheese with meatballs). Keep in mind these are his choices and he didn't want to go out for dinner but wanted a homemade dinner (you know my cooking is that good!)
For things to do, he requested a "scavenger hunt for presents" then to go for a hike in the morning and then try out a local archery range in the afternoon. The scavenger hunt was modeled off of something our friend and former neighbor, Kelly, does with her boys for Easter baskets. I had to take pictures of objects around the house and then he had to follow the clues from one point to another finding presents along the way.
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| First clue |
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| The found clues |
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| Finding the grand prize! |
Around mid-morning Kelly, drove down from Anacortes to join us on the hike. We went to a state park on the Key Peninsula called PennRose park. It was really pretty and I'd like to go back to explore more. We were a little rushed for time since Cannon really wanted to get to the archery range before it closed.
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| Mick and Ty on our walk |
Cannon's been interested in archery lately and he's been practicing in the back yard using a recurve bow that David, Kelly's son, generously gave him and a packing box. He's pretty good, but has lost a few stray arrows to the woods behind our house! His big gift from Steve and I was a junior sized compound bow. Since he needed a better place to shoot that than the packing box, Steve took Cannon and London out to this "family friendly" archery and gun range. I, for one, would have never said that I would be a member at a gun range, but I guess that's what having boys does for you. I think I might ignore the gun part and just concentrate on the archery part! The guys had a great time and learned a lot so maybe Emmy and I will get to go soon?
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| London trying his hand. |
When they got back, we had Cannon's favorite dinner and (what else?) a "target" cake for dessert. Happy birthday my sweet baby boy! (I can still call you that, Cannon, because I'm your mom.)
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