We had quite the celebrations lined up for your 4th birthday, little man! You got lots of fun stuff that you wanted, as well as just the right cake (an animal cake with rainbow cake), and got to spend it with all the people. Thankfully, it snuck in JUST before the Coronavirus pandemic set in (SO thankful!), so not only were you able to celebrate at daycare and preschool, but also with both Uncle Daniel and Grandma Diane, but also with Grandpa and Grandma Pam and Aunt Jess.
We started the day with a birthday crown and letting you open one of your gifts right away: A new Blaze sweatshirt! You LOVED it! It happened to be pajama day at preschool, so you obliged ;)
It was a quick morning, but you enjoyed taking treats to your daycare and preschool and celebrating there as well with "party cakes".
You had been telling me all day that you wanted tacos for your birthday supper, but that changed quickly after daycare to hot dogs and mac and cheese, so that's what we had.
Cashel and Kendrick became really obsessed with blowing up enormous balloons, which meant lots of weeping and gnashing of teeth when they all popped.
Uncle Daniel and Grandma Diane joined the party too shortly before cake and ice cream!
We're a bunch of party animals!
That wraps up Ryan's actual birthday day, but we also celebrated that coming Saturday with Grandpa, Grandma Pam and Aunt Jess! Ryan specifically wanted an animal cake, so I picked up this little pick for the cake and decorated it up. He wanted it to be a rainbow swirl, so we made one layer with reds and pinks and oranges and another layer with blues and greens. He was very, very pleased!
He ripped open his gifts way too fast for me to get a picture of him, but he LOVED them! He had to put on his Blaze and the Monster Machines jammies right away.
In the past, I used to feel like we had to do this big, drawn out birthday party for each kid, but it really has been a huge blessing with so many kiddos of my own to not feel that obligation. It's so nice to have it be just our family celebrating: I don't feel nearly as great a need to clean so in-depth and have everything perfect, and the kids honestly don't seem to care or notice at all.
Ryan said he had just the BEST birthday, and I'm so glad, because a week after his birthday, the whole country got hit with the COVID-19 pandemic, and things got pretty crazy! I'm grateful that we have no more immediate birthdays until early August, when we can hopefully celebrate together with Mark again!
