Fab Four

It's hard to believe that it's been 4 years already since my last baby was born. I feel like time is just cruising by. Neil is such a remarkable little boy. I am so impressed with all of the progress he has been making over these last six month in particular. He's gone from hating buses, diapers full time, and flinstone feet to happily riding the bus everyday, daytime potty trained, and pedaling his new big boy bike. This is in addition to all the additional words and sentences he's been using. Preschool has been very good for him and he loves it.

For his birthday this year I made him funfetti cupcakes with green frosting. He is obsessed with the color green, so we all suffered the green teeth look. The girls and I surprised him at school with the cupcakes. It was so cute to see his excitement and surprise at seeing us in his class. We sang to him and the teacher even got him a present to open (Brown Bear book).

We spent the day mostly playing outside and riding his new bike. I never thought he would get the hang of pedaling, but within 2 or 3 times of trying he had it. I have to say it makes such a difference when kids are motivated. He really seems to be in a new mindset lately of wanting to master new things. The more the better.

For dinner we took the kids to Chuckee Cheese where we ordered a pizza and a zillion tokens for a fun evening. Thankfully it wasn't too crazy there, and all three kids had a great time. After exchanging our tickets for the silly prizes we headed home for more celebrating.

We thought it would be fun to invite our family to his "party". So when we got home we got out two laptops and connected to both Grandparents over skype. It turned out really well. We all sang to him and watched him blow out his candles. Then poor Grandmas had to watch us eat the tasty cupcakes before we got to the presents. He got some pretty fun stuff including dinosaurs, stackadoos, a book, crocs, legos, playdough, and Mater.

He's a lucky kid to have so many people who love him dearly. Thank you to everyone for all the cards and gifts. I think he really enjoyed his birthday!