Happy 5th Birthday Ethan

I can't even wrap my head around the fact that Ethan is 5 years old!! Where did the time go?

I look back to the day he was born and all the unknowns and I look at him now and wonder why I was so worried. He is the perfect little guy for us and is doing amazingly well.

"They say it's your birthday...it's my birthday too, yeah!"

I always think of this song since Ethan and Granddad share a birthday. And even though we haven't spent the day together since the first one, thanks to the computer, we always get a video chat in and can sing to one-another.

Ethan always gets overwhelmed at lots of presents to open (I wonder if that will change one day?) so we always end up opening gifts for several days. We started early with the present from Granddad and Nana in the early afternoon so they could enjoy seeing him open their gift.

Open, open, open.

What's inside???

New puzzles and a book!

Did someone say cake???

Happy birthday to you!

Make a wish...

...and blow out those candles.

Yay, you did it!

Time to dig in - this kid loves his cake!

Wyatt is more about the frosting - but he had been waiting for weeks to eat birthday cake and sing Happy Birthday to Ethan - he'd been talking about it non-stop.

Jack has even progressed from not eating/liking cake to eating the frosting.

Time for another gift...

A box of books - he just loves these little books and carries them around with him everywhere.

Jack picked out a gift for Ethan but he didn't really want to open it so Jack helped.

A felt board with felt pictures of the zoo.

The Sunday of his birthday weekend we met up with some friends at a play place called Catch Air. It was a huge play area with bouncy houses, slides, mazes, balls, a light-up dance floor and more.

The kids had so much fun!

After about three hours all three of them asked to go home.

But they sure had fun!!

Happy Birthday my sweet boy. I love you.

XOXO

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