Luckily, Daniel decided to have his birthday party before we left back for the states. He is one of Evan's only friends here in Melaka that is a boy AND around his same age. We've started trying to get the boys together more often as Sarah's schedule has allowed for, but it is quite difficult given both boys are in school in the morning and that they live over in the condos and we live out here! So anytime we do get together, Evan is thrilled! Not only is he a big fan of Daniel's, but also of Maya, Daniel's 6 year old sister! When we heard we were going to take a trip out to the Melaka airport to see some of the airplanes, E was even more thrilled. One of our friends husbands works for the Malaysian Flight Academy (training pilots who are working on becoming commercial airplane pilots for Malaysian Airlines or Air Asia) and he agreed to give us a tour of the place. It was just Daniel, Evan, Kirsty (the other expat kid who is just about 4 months younger than E) and Cooper. We then headed back to the condos for some games and to have snacks and cake with the rest of the older expat kiddos. The tour was great....we got to see the training rooms, a simulation room and even got to get in one of the single engine planes they train in. It was dreadfully hot out, so we just got a few pictures of the kids in front of the plane, let them "fly one of the planes" for a bit and then headed out! It was so much fun to see how excited the boys got. Even with the heat and the loud plane engines running, they still had a blast!
Later at the condos, the boys got quite the workout running around, playing "duck, duck, goose", and playing on the playground equipment. There were a couple of games of pin the tail on the donkey and then we had some fun pinata time. We ended the evening with some yummy cake.
Evan checking out all the airplane controls
The boys didn't like the simulation plane too much - they couldn't see much and they had to be quiet in there, neither of which is any fun for 2 active little boys!
Daniel, Evan and Kirsty by one of the single engine prop planes
Cooper had to get in the picture...I love how all the boys are holding hands. Kirsty was too preoccupied with her heart shaped pen to be holding any boy's hand!!
"Flying" the plane! I got a pretty cute video as well that had Evan saying "Mommy can we fly over to Daniel's party now!"
Trying for one shot with Mommy...
Playing duck, duck goose
And they are off...
Wallace trying to get E to do the wheelbarrel! He wasn't real sure what Wallace was trying to get him to do and he is still a little too weak to hold himself up, so he quickly face planted!
Stopping for a picture...well, sort of!
Daniel and Maya
Enough of the singing...when am I going to get some of that yummy cake?!?!?
..and it was oh so yummy!
Taking a swing at the pinata!
I didn't get many pictures of Cooper, but let it be known he tried as hard as he could to keep up with the big kids! After awhile we gave up and just walked around and snacked the rest of the time - something Cooper does very well...
at least it was healthy snacking!!
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