LOTUS TURNS SIX

February 27th Lotus turned six years old. WOW! He day began at school with a beautiful birthday celebration. This was followed by snack and the making of ice cream. Lotus LOVES everything chocolate (especially dark) and wanted to make chocolate ice cream. Knowing what ingredients were going in I thought adding the caffeine of chocolate would be too much for these young ones so to make everyone happy I decided to use carob instead. I am sure you have guessed it, the kids new something was up at the first bite. Some even thought there was a hint of coffee. The teachers were happy to know it was carob and most of the children didn't seem to mind the varied taste on chocolate. Lotus helped to serve up the ice cream with blueberries, blackberries, bananas, strawberries, and coconut. YUM YUM!!

While Lotus' main teacher, Auntie Allyson, works on her healing Auntie Heather has stepped in as lead teacher. What a great job she is doing.

For each child's birthday, their classmates bring them a gift from nature. Lotus' teacher, Auntie Allyson made her a very sweet sewing basket.

And yes, then there was the home celebration. Lotus requested a chocolate cake and then she did most of the decorating with the fondant.

 Aila wearing Lotus' headband given to her by Elijah.

PARTY ON!

Before the birthdays we had to make a trip to Kona for the biannual dentist trip. We took the kids for a little fun at the Sheraton. Aila was sick so she spent her time in her stroller watching the others.

First I had to add this one of her b-day attire...trouble ahead.

Our little camera didn't capture the beautiful snow as we drove over saddle road to Kona.

While at the Sheraton, we met a family Joe knows and they had a five year old girl...much fun!

Lotus, our daredevil coming down the slide.