My baby is 5 today!! I can't believe it. It still feels like he should be 3. I don't like this part of time flying. It is crazy how quickly kids grow up.
Kaelan has been looking forward to this birthday FOREVER. He finally gets a real birthday party (although he thought today was it, there is actually going to be a surprise party for him this Saturday, with all his friends that he is going to miss when we move to California!) and he gets to be 5... Five is an important milestone in his life, all his guy buddies are already 5 and have been so for 8 months, he finally feels like he is joining the big leagues.
The boys and I stayed up late last night decorating the house so that when he woke up he could be surprised with a birthday transformation. The only downside of the night was me, falling off the barstool I stood on to hang balloons on the ceiling. It was a regular Loony Tunes moment. The stool disappears out from under me and I hovered a moment before crashing down on top of it, as it lay on its side, breaking it AND breaking myself. I had a 6 inch piece of wood sticking out of the side of my left leg and serious bruises all the way up my back side, knees to neck. I tried to put my right hand behind me but I was 8 feet up in the air and landed on it very wrong. It was a miracle that it didn't break. My jeans are toast though I ripped my back pocket out and there is a tear in the left side of the pant leg where the wood penetrated. After I fell I just lay there, pain signals going off like crazy, pinging all over my body. Calder asked if I was okay and all I could say was, "I don't know yet..." I am still in pretty bad shape today. It feels like I was involved in some sort of gang beating. I hurt EVERYWHERE, and have some pretty nasty bruising from my knees up to my low back, very much in the shape of long stool legs. The stool didn't make it out much better than I did. That, unfortunately was great joke material for Calder. "Haha, mom broke the stool when she sat on it" My reply, "There is a huge difference between sitting on and falling on to a stool!!" The best part of it was that I was lecturing Calder on wasting time, while hanging balloons and was in the middle of a sentence about not wasting time when I went down. So, after confirming that I was going to live Levi and Calder had a great time reenacting my less than graceful interaction with gravity and lecturing. Very funny boys, very funny.
When Kaelan woke up, WAY too early for my taste, he ran through the house shouting "I am 5, I am 5, I am 5!!" That made me smile. He had a great day, a play date with a friend, and lunch and movie date with his best friend, opening presents and eating cake. What more could a 5 year old want??!
Here is a little short video of KK on his big day:
A few photos from the day:
Claire and Kaelan. BFF's for life. They are two peas in a pod.
It was just Claire, Kaelan and I at PF Changs and the Movies. Just perfect....
Claire and Kaelan enjoying Egg Drop Soup together.
They were SO cute sharing their bowl of soup and commenting on the flavors of it.
Eating with chopsticks only gets you so far up the fun meter, after you are done eating with them, then of course you must enjoy them in other ways. First they were walking "men" on the table, then swords, and last, but definitely not least, the lovely nose pinchers you see here:
Kaelan's MORE than delicious free birthday dessert.
I, ahem, he sure lucked out! Coconut ice cream, fresh strawberries and blackberries, and fried bananas! YUM!!!
We went and saw "The Pirates, Band of Misfits", A claymation movie not unlike all the Wallace Gromit movies. It was very funny, and it was in 3D, which the kids loved. The best part was that they had it in this enormous theater and we literally had it ALL to ourselves. No one else was there. It made it so perfect for enjoying the movie with two 4/5 year olds. I didn't have to tell them to be quiet, I could let them move around, I could take a phone call during the movie! I definitely recommend seeing a movie that way! What a treat!! It was like we rented the whole theater out for just us...
After the movie the kids went into this photo booth and were really wanting a photo taken with it, I convinced them to let me take it, with them sitting in it, fortunately that did the trick!
The fun never stopped, because as soon as we got home, it was time for opening presents, cake and then PLAYING with the new toys.
Opening up a present that turned out to be an Angry birds game:
Lite Brite, but with LED, SO thin.... much better that the old fashioned kind!
Finn McMissile Remote Control Car, that also opens up a secret compartment to fire missiles. Kaelan was in 7th heaven! He also got a super fast Trackmaster "Spencer" train with remote control and tracks... I don't have a picture of that though.
Kaelan playing "Mad birdies" as he calls Angry birds....
It was a great day, for a great kid!
He makes me smile everyday, so it made me happy to see big smiles from him on his birthday!
I love you Kaelan! You are a very special and fun boy.
I can't wait to see your smile on Saturday for your big "surprise" party!!
