Day 59: The Day You Turned Five

My BABY is FIVE you guys! ::cries:: ::wails:: ::mopes:: ::etc::

Good Lawd, I'm tired. It's been a marathon since 5am and I'm char-broiled. 

The kids generally aren't allowed to get up before 6am. But the time on Calen's clock had been changed (probably by him), so they both come barging in at o-dark-thirty announcing "IT'S MY BIRTHDAY!!!!" and then we had to be those jerk dream-crushers to grumble under the covers: "It's not your birthday until 6am. GO to bed."

Of course, they never actually fell back asleep. So we were up as early as them. 

The birthday tradition in the house is basically the same every year with each kid. Their actual birthday is "family day" and a party (if applicable) is set for a different day. Because by God we as parents get to celebrate surviving another year, darn it!

So this morning it started with the usual birthday pancakes with whipped cream (chocolate this year...did you even know that's a thing), sprinkles, and a candle, and singing (as much as we can handle singing at 6am).

Normally, we wait until after Brad gets home from work to open presents. But since he hadn't left yet, and we were all up so damn early, we decided to hell with it, let him open all his presents at the crack of dawn. So he did. He got a couple small Lego sets and some Batman vs Superman guys. And the highlight of the day: a Star Wars BB8 droid that moves (rolls on the floor plus his head spins) and talks and has two modes, button mode (push the button on his head to move) and voice mode (he'll come to you if you call him...usually). So he spent the morning playing with that. 

It was a school day so I dropped him off at school with a package of Chips Ahoy cookies to share with the class, and then moped around town for 3 hours whining to myself that my kids were too BIG already, so I did some retail therapy and got Cam one more present and strapped it in his carseat for pickup:

Chewbacca!!

The initial plan after school was to go to his favorite playground with a Happy Meal, but it was POURING down rain, so we just went to McDonald's for lunch instead. 

Then we came home and I asked Cam what he wanted to do and he said he wanted to play Lego Jurassic World (on Playstation) with me, so we did a little 2 player action for an hour or so.

Once Calen and Brad came home, we headed off to Mary's Pizza Shack (Camden's dinner restaurant of choice) and he terrorized our table and the one next to it with his Lego T-Rex. The waiters brought him a sundae and sang and he giggled and announced loudly "IT'S MY BIRTHDAY!!! I'M FIVE!!!" to any patron within shouting range. 

T-Rex's need drink breaks too

Then off to Toys R Us per tradition, where he picks out his own gift from me and Brad. This has always been my favorite part, watching them stroll through the aisles with (almost) complete freedom and seeing what they're SO into each year. By then he was pretty tired, but he held fast to specific things that he suddenly NEEDED in his life. Including an entire set of Big Hero 6 figures, a Lego Batmobile, and a random $3 jump track piece for Hot Wheels (of all damn things). And Brad and I got him a bucket of Toy Story green army men because obviously AND it comes with the parachuting guys too. 

I mean, c'mon. 

He had such a fun day, but by the time we got home he was pooped and it was bedtime. I checked on him not ten minutes later to find him sacked out under his new Jurassic World blanket, snuggled in with Baymax and Chewbacca. 

Good night birthday boy

The cutest part of the day was that whenever anyone would tell him "Happy birthday", instead of saying "thank you", Camden would respond "Happy birthday to you too!" All day. So cute I almost died.

At least he's still kind of little. 

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