Three And Four

I now have a three-year-old and a four-year-old child.  Today was my son's birthday.   He's been excited about his birthday for some time now.   It's been complicated explaining the whole birthday thing to him, mostly because it's not all happening on one day.

Today was his birthday, but his party isn't until Sunday.   He knows there is a birthday celebration at school, but that's tomorrow.  He understands Mimi and Gramps are coming in to visit him for his birthday and Nana and Papa are coming too, but they're coming at two different times.    He is looking forward to having cup cakes with his movie night friends to celebrate his birthday, but that's not happening on his birthday either.  

In short, it's a lot of birthday things and events, but they're across several days and my son was trying to figure them all out.

Today, Mimi and Gramps came to town to help my son celebrate.   They arrived after lunch and we spent the afternoon together.    We decided it would be easier to order pizza, so we didn't go out to celebrate.    As we were getting ready to eat, it occurred to me that we had no dessert for his birthday.

But he's four, and he's getting a lot of birthday action over the next three days so we just put a cookie in the oven for each of us and when they were hot and done, stuck a candle in his.

He opened several presents, lit his twenty-one-year candle and got phone calls from some family members.  He had a great day.

The Big Boy Update:   For his forth birthday today, my son got a super hero cape with his initial on it, a helicopter with a search light and a hook, some superhero cool spiderman pajamas and a train book with a train that rode across the pages.    My son loved them all.

The Tiny Girl Chronicles:  "Mom, what happened to the boat?"   We were on the ride to school, listening to the soundtrack to the movie, Frozen, when my daughter asked me what happened to the boat?   I didn't know what she meant at first and then I realized why she was asking.   The song that was on was, "Do You Want To Build a Snowman," which is sung by one sister to another.   But while that song is going on, the movie also shows the king and queen going off to sea and their boat being lost in a storm.    My daughter asked where the boat was at the point in the song where the ship is lost, even though the song has nothing to do with it in the lyrics."