We started the day with blueberry snowman pancakes with chocolate chip decor.
Side story: After decorating their yukis, Ryan went to cut Brennan's into bite-sized pieces. Brennan quickly protected his plate with his arms and said, "No cut. Owie. No cut yuki. Owie!" He insisted Ryan was going to hurt his snowman. So we all ate our breakfast while Brennan stared at his yuki. After a minute or two, he pushed his plate over to Ryan and said, "Cut yuki. Eat!" It was adorable. I guess hunger over-powered his protective instincts.
While Mom cleaned up breakfast, the boys headed out to tackle the icy driveway. Our "blizzard" was hardly a dusting, but we definitely had INSANE winds yesterday. And since the snow came after 24 hours of torrential rain, there's some crazy ice under it. The doors and garage were totally layered in a thin sheet of ice. Yep, we were living in glass house.
As requested by the birthday boy, we went as a family (Ryan used his last vacation day) to Monkey Joe's. It is a bounce house with slides and stuff for the kids. Ryan's never been, and we were the only family there for 40 minutes. It was awesome. Tons of fun. The sign may say "No Adults on jumping houses" but hey - we were definitely "assisting children under the age of 4" ...most of the time. Good times for everyone. I was exhausted! Happy birthday, big boy.
After nap time (Collin rarely naps anymore, and today was no exception - He did about an hour and a half of quiet time instead), we ate Culver's ice cream cake. After running away fearfully, Collin did return to the table for the birthday song and (unlike last year) blew out LIT candles. Hooray!
Lastly, we opened presents on the web cam with Nana. Coll got a fleece sheet set, tinker toys and a new game for his Leapster. <-- Mom's sanity, fingers crossed, on the car ride tomorrow.
Yep, the world may not have ended, but I have a four-year-old in my house. How did this happen!?
PS: In case you noticed his left eye... He fell last night getting ready for bed (just in time for birthday pictures) and slammed into the board books on the book shelf. For real owie.
2 comments:
Happy birthday! When did our kids get so big Lindsey?! They just need to slow it down, don't you think? (And, on other days I feel like I am ready to pack their bags for college so long kids!)
Happy Birthday, Collin! He's so cute, Linds. Four years sure flies, huh? (or maybe just the three years after that first year--- boy that first year with Lane was a long one). Merry Christmas, my friend! Thanks for not retiring from blogging, I like to check in with you. Oh, and Lane will say every few days, "Can we go to Collin's house?" Just yesterday he said, "I want to go to Collin's house and sleep in his room and hear him talk while he's sleeping." Does C talk in his sleep? Maybe Lane was just dreaming, but it was a really funny, somewhat random thing to tell me about. We all miss you-- come to Utah soon!
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