Hot diggity dog!! Calvin turned 4!
Calvin, I call you my Calvvy bear. Your little giggles & silly jokes never cease to make me laugh. You are learning to be a great helper, and you love to have snuggles with your Elephante still. You&Hayden have become best pals lately, and y'all play together all day. You don't know what to do when your brothers are at school & you are home with just mom&david. We just love to listen to you stories, and we cringe when you start to whine. But your morning-happy is just about the best part of your day; no one wakes up as happy as you!
We celebrated with a Mickey & the Roadster Racers birthday party, and we had a lot of fun putting it together. We kept it simple with decorations, but make lots of fun food! Mickey Mouse oreo cookies were super easy & cute; Mickey Mouse trail mix pulled all the colors of Mickey. Mickey watermelon with blueberries & apple/grape race cars completed our table. All the kiddos got to have Mickey Mouse or Minnie Mouse ears to wear & take home, which made for some extra fun at the party!
Mimi made Calvin's Mickey & the Roadster Racer cake, and boy it was awesome! She even made the track at the bottom spin around like a race. Calvin loved it, & so did the rest of us!
The kids went swimming because it was warm enough this April, and we ate 'hot diggity dogs' for lunch. As all birthday parties do, it was an incredible rush of excitement & then collapse in contentment afterwards. Calvin loved having his friends from school come to his house, and the older boys all had at least one friend to play with during the party. Overall, I was super pleased that all the boys had a great time together.
Calvin made this face when Mimi&Grandpa told him about his birthday trip to Legoland coming up! I just love his expression & those Mickey ears!
All the boys had to check out the new birthday toys.
And one group shot of all the mommas in our Minnie ears! haha! because we gotta have some fun with the kids.
Lord, thank you for Calvin and for being able to celebrate his birthday with friends and family. Thank you for your graciousness & generosity to us that we may share it with those in our life & lavish it on our children in expressions of our love, like big birthday parties. Thank you that you make help me see the deeper meaning of things that to some seem frivolous or showy. I pray that Calvin would know deep in his heart how much we love him, and not how much we love throwing a party. I pray that his memories of his childhood would be fond when he thinks of how we celebrated his birthdays. Thank you for your grace to us that we can give this gift to our child. Amen!
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