4th Birthday

I could have sworn that I had already made this post and to my surprise when I was trying to play catch up I realized that apparently I haven't. I appreciate everyone being patient with me and the blog. As I told you before we have been so busy lately and the blog has suffered. Max's birthday party was actually a week and a half after his real birthday. Luckily we had scheduled it that way because Max was really sick on his birthday. All of the unspoken unpleasantness that only mommies and daddies can relate to seem to be occurring all at the same time. We tried to make the day as special as possible but unfortunately daddy also started to come down with it around lunch time and I wasn't feeling exactly spry myself. We had grand plans of a trip to the zoo, an afternoon movie, dinner at Max's favorite place McDonald's with a little time at the play place, and capping the evening off with presents and cake. Clearly none of that happened so we spread his presents out throughout the day and he had a sliver of cake before bed. Thankfully he wont remember this birthday much, if at all. This was also the last day of summer before school started back. Which as we all know Max didn't make it to the first day of school either due to being sick. This virus had him down and out for a few days but thankfully we had our fun loving little boy back after a few days.

Max got to have a birthday boy donut for breakfast. Thankfully he got a little more excited than this but not much.

The only excitement we could think of was to let him open a few presents early. He got to open a new book after breakfast.

But this is how most of the day was spent. The two sickos watching a movie on the couch.

He got to open another gift that afternoon. He was getting restless and I felt sorry for him being sick on his birthday and all.

Finally after a bath and dinner we sang "Happy Birthday," had some cake, opened some presants, and called it a day!





I cant even believe he is already four. It's so cliche but it really has flown by. There are times I miss my sweet baby, but others I am amazed at how much he has grown. Maxwell has made me a more patient and understanding person. I cant believe that I get to be his mom everyday!