Happy Birthday Stinkers!
It's birthday season up in hera!! Someway somehow my sweet little baby Woodrow Zeke just turned ONE YEAR OLD!!! Ohmygoodness I can't even handle it. There's something about the first birthday that gets you pretty reflective. It's also the birthday where people offer you their congratulations, which is a little weird but I find myself doing it as well. I guess it's that the first year is a curve that you just have to lean in to, you really can't try to correct it, you just have to go with it, and that first birthday is a prominent marker in your new course. Whether I was ready for it or not, it has come. I guess now he's a toddler but I'm still gonna call him a baby.
And today Ikey turned four!! Such a big dude!! He amazes me. Sometimes he's so little and other times he's so big and grown up. This is the first birthday where he really gets it and turning four is a very big deal. He was able to look forward to this day with so much anticipation, but still with very low expectations (which is awesome for as long as it lasts!!).
With birthdays five days apart, they're bound to have combo birthday parties as long as they'll let us throw them. This year we had a Star Wars party with light sabers, a Jedi training course, and Storm Trooper cupcakes. It was a lot of fun.
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| When Ike saw these cupcakes he said "Momma! I love you so much! I didn't even KNOW I was gonna have Storm Trooper cupcakes! Thank you!!" |
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| Ikey decided to decorate... |
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| Jedi's preparing for battle |
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| Battle! |
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| Woodrow gettin' down on his cake! |
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| Wowo's baby friend Issac |
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| Our sweet friend Vanessa made these awesome sweatshirts for them |
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| Woodrow enjoying their new play kitchen, I need to find a spot for it in our real kitchen |
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| Toys that travel are super handy! |
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| I can't even tell you how I've hoped and prayed that one day I would have a child fall asleep at the table. That day was today!! It was greatness. Woodrow skipped his morning nap and just couldn't make it through lunch. I wish we'd had spaghetti or chili to make for a really epic picture, the best I can give you is that when he woke up later in his crib, he found a piece of his sandwich inside his overalls and kept on eating! |
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| A sweet moment of gift opening. Ike was "just taking a little break from his shirt for awhile". |
Thanks for reading and for all of your thoughtful birthday wishes!
