If December is a hard month to have a birthday, I'd have to throw the beginning of January in with it too. In fact, in some ways I think it is a little worse. Since we normally travel over the holidays it seems like we have always been coming or going on just getting back on January 6th in the past. Whatever the case, we have never really celebrated Max's birthday on his birthday and even after the fact it has been pretty weak. This year, since we were going to be in California on his birthday with family I wanted to break that trend and really celebrate his big day. In fact weeks before his birthday I asked him what he would like to do for his birthday. His answer was always changing so I had a hard time making a plan. Finally a few days before his birthday when I was questioning him again about the plan he said, "It's OK Mom. I'll just let you decide everything." That is Max for you. He really can get excited about most anything and at least when it comes to a birthday party he's not too particular. We ended up celebrating it twice (making up for the years when we didn't do much at all.) The day before his birthday we were in Long Beach and celebrated with my parents and cousins on my side of the family.
I still wont say that Max has ever had a real party, but we did play pin the tail on the dragon so it was close. Max was the first to do the pinning and made sure his went right where it belonged. I don't think he totally got how this game works because he was insistent that no one else put their tail near his.
I think Max's favorite part of the game was being "in charge".
Strangely enough the only thing Max did really decide on was what cake he wanted. He said he wanted the cake that had pineapple circles on top. I assumed that would be pineapple upside down cake, but thought it was a little odd because I don't think he'd ever had it before.
I thought for sure he was going to be disappointed, but I was wrong. He loved it. I guess 4 year olds do like pineapple upside down cake.
We also had punch balloons so I maybe it was a party after all. They were a hit with all of the kids. Even Ruby quickly figured out what to do.
Luke and his very sad black eye. (Thanks to Reed we all now know that using a rock as a discus is always a bad idea. )
The next day on his actual birthday we were in San Clemente and got to celebrate with Toby whose birthday is the same as Max's . Unfortunately I left my camera behind and have no pictures to document that part of the celebration. I can say though that Max was thrilled with the shared occasion. In fact I'm pretty sure he enjoyed it even more because it was shared. I love that about him and so much more. Happy Birthday my big 4-year-old boy!
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He is the cutest four year old!!
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