Happy Birthday Jakub!

Happy Birthday Jakub!  We had a wonderful time celebrating your 6th birthday at home.  Your best friend Mikuláš and his Mom, my best friend Stana, came to celebrate with us, as well as our good friend Madison.  We had so much fun opening gifts together, eating, and playing.  You and Mikuláš ran around like crazy, as usual. :)  You can see in the two pictures above that you two have been friends since you were babies.  In the first picture you are both 1 year old.  Now you are 6!  The time has gone by so quickly.  You both remain good friends at pre-school and like to play together there as well.  You sometimes still fight like brothers, but you also play very well and love each other.  You especially love to go to his house and play and spend the night.

Madison helped me make this beautiful cake for you.  I saw a picture of it on the internet and really wanted to try and make it.  You really love super-hero things right now, playing with spiderman and batman, and you also love to build with your legos.  You have great ideas about how to engineer things and maybe one day you will want to build, design, or be an architect.  You really liked the cake, but didn't want to eat much for some reason.  We would later find out in the night that you were going to get a stomach flu and be very sick for a few days (and then a few weeks... more on that later.)

Here's a picture of me and Stana.  She has remained a very good friend of our family's.  She's very encouraging, positive, and sweet.  I love to spend time with her while you kids play.  :)

And very close to your birthday we had a "fall festival" party with our "Moms and Kids" Wednesday English program.  You were dressed as Spiderman and Sofia was a princess.  You both had a lot of fun on this day and we had a good party.  Two of your friends from school started coming this semester and it made the class more fun for you.  In general, though, at this age you didn't like to participate anymore because you were "bored" and already knew all of the English well.
It was hard for you to sit through the classes, but you loved to play with your friends. :)  I always have a lot of fun teaching this class and many of the moms have become my good friends as well.

So, Happy Birthday to you Jake!  You're awesome and we love you very much!  You are confident, smart, energetic, and constantly wanting to learn something new, try something new, run, play, and live life to the fullest.  You keep me on my toes and striving to challenge you and show you new things.  I think you are going to love first grade next year and the new challenges it brings.  I can't wait to see it!