Showing posts with label birthdays. Show all posts
Showing posts with label birthdays. Show all posts

June 27, 2011

Jackie turns the big F-O-U-R


On our last full day on the cruise, Jack turned four.  Last year, he picked going to a hotel, this year a cruise.  I'm not sure what he is expecting for his fifth birthday.  A chartered helicopter ride, a private jet to Paris?  Maybe we'll tell him he's getting a shiny new pair of tweezers and then a trip to the doctor to celebrate turning five.  Then he'll be really excited about a nice, quiet little party at home with a few buddies. 
Birthday hugs from Nana.

Jack had a lot on his plate during his birthday month, what with the move and all.  He's still in transition mode, but underneath it all his genuineness, passion for life, humor and gentleness peek through.  He loves to make us laugh and comes up with elaborate plans he thinks we should carry out for the day.  If we would let him, he would watch Transformers every minute of every day.  He's more mechanical than Tim, Luke and I put together.  If something is broken, he's most likely the one to figure out how to fix it.  Really, he's just plain awesome.
Our waiter even brought him his very own cake.
With FOUR candles.  Four.
Wasn't he just learning to walk?
Where did the time go?
I need some sort of magic potion to slow the time down. 
Even so, each age becomes my new favorite.

February 4, 2011

Party Time Prep

Luke had an awesome 5th birthday party,
if I do say so myself.
Okay, okay, I planned it, so of course I'm going to say that.

The prep:
A little pre gift opening practice courtesy of Nana, Papa and Auntie Ryna.


Pre party boxing
with an audience:
The building of the cake with my Mom and Jenn's help.



The finished project
A little pre party relaxing
Decorations and food


And now just waiting for the guests to come


Are they here yet?


May 16, 2010

Jack's Birthday Play-By-Play

8:00am: Jack wakes up and gets sung to by Daddy then Meemaw and Papa.  He also gets a Happy Bday text from Auntie Ryna in Haiti.

8:15am: The Frank the Combine cake is revealed.  He grins from ear to ear.
10:00am: Jack is so excited for the hotel he requests to pack his bags.  He shoves everything into his Cars backpack.  He wears the backpack around for the next two hours.

10:30am: Daddy comes home on his lunch break so Jack won't have to wait until the evening to open up his presents.  Good thing Papa, Nana, Papa and Meemaw got him good presents because the dinosaur Mommy and Daddy got him (and one he requested) freaks him out.  He can't be near it and needs to be held if he has to walk by it.

11:45am: Luke plays with the dinosaur enough to show Jack that it's safe.  Now he can be in the same room as it without being held.
12:41pm: Jack is actually playing with the dinosaur and wants to bring it to the hotel.
1:45pm:  A birthday nap.

4: 35pm: Nana wishes Jackie Happy Birthday on the phone.

4:45pm:  Pick up Little Caesar's.

5:03pm: Check into the Hyatt.  We get the top floor, whoo hooo!
5:09pm:  The birthday boy gets to push the elevator button.  He almost pushes the alarm button, like he does EVERY time he goes into an elevator.

5: 14pm:  We arrive to room 405.  It has a balloon on the door and a basket inside complete with a chocolate chip cookie and bottle of Pepsi.  Luke and Jack start bouncing off the walls.
    
5:20pm: Pizza time.
5: 47pm: Pool time.  (We miss Papa's birthday wish but we get to broadcast the entire voicemail message across the hotel room.)

7:51pm: Luke poses.
7:58pm: Movie time.  (Surprisingly, he didn't pick Cars, he wanted to watch The Land Before Time.)
9: 32pm: ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ

May 14, 2010

THREE

HI!!!
My name is Jack.
I'm also known as Jackie, Jack-a-noonie, and Jack-o-beam Mugatu.
I'M THREE TODAY!!!!!!!!!
I'm a future mechanic.
I'm a fiddler
I can concentrate if my hands are busy.
I love the movie Cars. (I picked it out at the movie rental store, even though we own it.)
I love baseball.

I also love my brother and my fireman boots.
I look like my Mommy on the outside but I am Daddy through and through on the inside.
I am accident-prone......CRASH....
I love to eat.
I love to stay in hotels and eat pizza.
I am very dramatic.
I love hard.

I am Jack and I am THREE years old today.