William Turns 4!

We celebrated our favorite new 4 year old! 

After his birthday treats at school, Bret picked up William and they had a fun afternoon together. Bret took him to see Santa at Bass Pro. William told Santa about his birthday and Santa gave him a special coin. It was so special!

William chose "chips & salsa" as his birthday dinner, so Mexican food it was. Pop Pop & Susie joined us for dinner. He got ice cream from the restaurant as his birthday treat. 

 

William chose Dinos & Donuts for his birthday party theme. He had family invited as well as friends from our neighborhood & school.

Thanksgiving 2019

One of my favorite traditions is making a hand print turkey each year. W likes to see how much his hand grows each year.

At school, W decorated a turkey feather to add to the classroom turkey. Each student decorated the feather any way they wanted. W used many of his stickers to make a lovely feather.

We celebrated Thanksgiving at Cousin Kylie's house this year. Many of the Dinkels came to gather together. My parents joined in the fun as well. We relish in any celebration with Bret's grandparents, Bill & Mary. Bill is who William is named after so they have a special bond.

Halloween 2019

Watching the weather forecast leading up to Halloween, we saw that it was going to be very chilly and even some snow. Because of this, we decided to go to ALL of the Trunk or Treats in our city. William is lucky to have some older cousins who handed down their costumes to him. He had a different costume for each Trunk or Treat!

Weekend in Wichita

This year, we purchased season tickets to the Tanganyika Wildlife Park. A few times this year, we have driven down for just a day trip a couple of times to visit the park and drive back. We had a rare weekend free and decided we would stay the whole time. William loved staying in a hotel and getting to swim in October! It was also the park's Halloween celebration weekend, so W was able to wear one of his (many) costumes to the park.

The best part of the park is the ability to get up and close with the animals! All the animals they have at the park are rescues. We were able to pet some of the animals and had feeding passes along with our season tickets.

Since we had an extra day in Wichita, we visited the Old Cowtown Museum. It's a fantastic little place and I so wish we had something like it in Kansas City to take my students to visit! It was a mock up of a pioneer cow town. You could go into the buildings and see what the businesses were like then. There was even a shootout (!) we got to witness! William got hi photo with the sheriff and then the whole cow town shootout ensemble.

Wrote his name all on his own!!