Rockwell Turns 12!!!

 Rockwell turned 12 years old last week!!

Rockwell is such a good kid! He is nice to the people in his life, he always expresses gratitude, and he looks for ways to help people. He comes out of school late sometimes because he stays to help Mrs Graff put chairs away or clean up the room if they've done an activity that she would have to rearrange or clean up on her own. 

Rockwell loves to read, especially the Wings of Fire series and all the Minecraft books. He loves to hang out with his friends, "The Amigos." They love to play video games together, go to Classic, play sports, and really do anything together. They're a great group of boys. I'm glad he has such good and nice friends.

(He had no interest in a birthday photo shoot, so I'm using some old favorites.)

Rockwell still loves penguins and popcorn. He loves watching YouTube on his laptop. He works very hard in school and makes sure he does his very best on the projects he's extra interested in. He really enjoys what he's learning in Social Studies and Science this year.

Rockwell always asks Paul and me how our day was, and follows up later to see how things are going that we tell him about. He cares a lot about the relationships he has with family. Goodbyes are very hard on him whenever family comes to stay with us, or we visit them. We are so proud of who Rockwell chooses to be and absolutely love love love that he's in our family!!!

Rockwell requested crepes for his birthday breakfast, and so Paul went into work late after making them for him. He decided to spend his class tickets on the couch that day. Logan's birthday is the day after Rockwell's but he wasn't going to be at school that day, so they both used their tickets to sit on the couch all day on Wednesday. He said he had a great day at school! When everyone was home that afternoon, Rockwell opened his presents.

He didn't have many ideas of things he wanted this year besides a couple books, so he was surprised with everything he opened. 

He was excited for his new Wings of Fire activity books, stickers, and notebook, his dragon Legos and stuffed animal, pajama pants, book, slinky, and Milky Ways.

He chose steak tacos for dinner, and wanted to watch Mr Popper's Penguins with popcorn and brownies that night. As we were popping the popcorn, Cheree texted and said she knew it was Rockwell's birthday but Aiden and Ashton really wanted her to see if he wanted to come to Classic with them. He said he definitely wanted to go. While Tessa, Damon, Paul and I were watching Mr Popper's Penguins and eating popcorn and brownies without him, it really hit me that we basically have a teenager!! He's to the point where he'll choose to hang out with his friends over the family anytime. :) I really am happy that he has good friends and wants to be out with them. It was just a moment that really emphasized how old Rockwell is now!

He had a blast at Classic. Aiden and Ashton gave the tickets they won to Rockwell since it was his birthday. Isn't that nice?!

 He wanted to at least eat a brownie before bed, so I put all 12 candles in his brownie. It made a huge flame! :)

He thanked us for the best birthday ever. I'm so glad he had such a great day!!

He had his birthday party with The Amigos Friday night. Levi was on a cruise so he couldn't come, but Aiden, Ashton, and Logan came and they had a blast!

They had pizza for dinner, played video games, opened presents, hit a pinata, played hide & go seek in the dark, played Minute To Win It Games, and made up some of their own games. 

It was a really fun night. We loved hearing Rockwell laugh and have a great time with his friends. Paul and I had some good laughs when the boys were playing the Minute To Win It games too. :) They're funny kids!!

Happy birthday Rockwell! We sure love love love you!!!