finally, the birthday post

I know, you can hardly believe your eyes! a real post, with real pictures. and today is going to be your lucky day.

out of love and respect for my husband I did not take pictures of him on his birthday. he is remarkably camera shy... I don't know why, he's quite handsome and much better looking than me, especially these days. so his birthday last week went without a single shot.
the very next day is Roanie Ronan's birthday. FOUR YEARS OLD! I thought about that a lot that day. I thought about how he is 4 and in those years I haven't gotten all baby hungry and so in a small way (well, maybe in a big way) I have felt sad that he is my very last baby and the very last 4 year old that I will have, ever. :(
it really is too bad, my babies are so very pretty, and smooshy, and cuddly and perfectly wonderful.
but I am too old and ruined....


back to the birthday boy.

he was so completely excited about being four. he woke up and I told him 'happy birthday' and he was just so thrilled. half way through the morning he asked "Am I still 4?"
how sweet. about noon he decided that he had to see how big he was now that he was 4. "I'm going to see how big I am." and he walked into the bathroom. I was a bit perplexed by this because seeing how big he is usually means standing against the door frame and measuring how tall. so I followed him into the bathroom. he went to stand on the scale. I told him that it said he was 38 pounds. that was not what he wanted to hear... he wanted to be 40 pounds because there is a number 4 in that number.


a few days before his birthday I asked him what he wanted to eat for his birthday supper. he said "tacos". but on the day of his birthday he had changed his mind and wanted chicken nuggets. I didn't have any and so I convinced him of the tacos again, at supper he was not too happy that it wasn't chicken nuggets. :(
oh well.... the really important thing is the cake and ice cream anyway.
speaking of, he had wanted to have a TRON cake. basically he wanted to have the disc the programs have on their backs. I don't get all fancy with cake. it's just going to get cut up and chewed and unrecognizable anyway so we settled on blue frosting.



he blew and blew and blew those candles. they weren't trick candles. he just hasn't had any practice with candle blowing.

he doesn't have much experience with cake cutting either, but it was a lot of fun letting him slice that thing into uneven pieces. next year he may do better. Everyone laughed and Emma giggled away while he cut the cake. it was really fun and funny
then time for presents. the younger kids just jump right in the way so I rarely get any good pictures of faces as gifts get opened. so Ronan had to pose and show off his presents. this Bat Man motorcycle is from Grandma and Grandpa. he says it's the best toy ever. and it is pretty awesome. He loves all those classic comic book heroes.

and because he has so many Iron Man action figures and he has a bunch of Transformers and he has a Bat Man or two, add that to his costumes of spiderman, wolverine, optimus prime, ironman, and Connor has a Hulk costume that he can goof around with, we thought he should have a new hero. we were going to get him a TRON toy, but they apparently don't sell them in our neck of the woods. (lame!) so the Green Lantern it is. :)

Happy Birthday baby baby