Happy Birthday Tanner!

 

Happy Birthday Tanner! 

Here are some of Tanner's favorites at age 9:

• Favorite color:  clear and light blue
• Favorite things to do in his free time:  play with friends, use his microscope and telescope, and play video games
• Favorite book:  Summer of the Sea Serpent
• If he could go anywhere he would go:  to Ty's house (his cousin in San Diego)
• Favorite ice cream flavor:  cookies & cream
• Favorite animal:  orca
• What he wants to be when he grows up:  marine biologist
• Favorite candy bar:  Cadbury Dairy Milk with carmel
• Favorite meal:  orange chicken
• Favorite movie:  Star Wars Phantom Menace (and Return of the Jedi) and Pirates of the Caribbean Dead Man's Chest (and At World's End)
• Favorite subject in school:  science
• If he had $10 to spend at Walmart he would buy:  Beyblades

 

Tanner's Birthday was on Sunday this year, so we celebrated throughout a couple of days.  On Saturday we went to Trafalga.  The boys enjoyed a game of laser tag.  The kids also all got to ride on the go-karts, climb the rock wall, and play a round of miniature golf.

 

 

After Trafalga we went out to eat.  Tanner LOVES Chinese food.  We tried a Chinese restaurant that we had never been to before.  He was in heaven.  Tanner thinks it is so cool that practically everything in the USA is made in China.  Ironically, this Chinese restaurant had everything made in the USA.  We checked.  The plates, cups, even the place mats.    



 Sunday was the big day.  Tanner could hardly wait for us to change out of our church clothes to unwrap his gifts.  A remote control car that has a built in water gun was a big hit.   He also got a Barlow lens for his telescope, which he could barely wait to try out.

 

 

He REALLY wanted a birthday cake that looked like the planet Neptune.  I knew no grocery store would attempt this, and it would be up to me.  Luckily, he didn't want anything fancy.  He just wanted it to have the three main clouds of Neptune included.  He knew the clouds by name.  "Scooter" is the name of a huge cloud that zips around the planet really quick, due to the high wind speeds.  Pretty simple.  I did have to make the blue exactly the right color though.  My first attempt was wrong.  Luckily, I guessed just the right amount of food coloring to add to it!

Happy Birthday Tanner!  We love you.