When he got to school, he got to choose and decorate a birthday crown!
(Also at school that day: the school's Christmas Program! Nick's birthday cookies were taken from the room and put out on the buffet tables for after the concert, but we found them and brought them back in for his birthday snack time!)
On Saturday, we had lots of friends over for Nick's Birthday Party! The theme was "Nick's FORE-th Birthday!" Mommy did invitations by evite.com, since she had run out of time for making invitations by hand :-( . The evite invitation had a picture of a golf tee, and said:
"Please help us celebrate Nick's "FORE"-th birthday!
Join in the fun at the "Nickolympics!"
Get ready to race, throw, and kick!
(And build, bowl, and putt!)
We hope you can join us!
At the "Nickolympics," we had plain white flags for the kids to decorate with marker, paint or pictures of sports for gluing on.
We started off the party with "free play" in the backyard, while kids were also decorating their flags. Then we had a parade to officially begin the "Nickolympics!"
Events at the "Nickolympics" included "kick a soccer ball under the little bench," "knock down the pins," "race the car down the ramp," "jump off the porch and onto the grass," and "throw the bean bag into the ring."
Then it pretty much just turned into "Chaos in the Backyard."
Nick's cake, as requested, was chocolate. Mommy decorated it with a golfer and a basketball player on top, and baseball and football candies around the side. On the top, she wrote "Happy Birthday! Happy Birthday! Nick is 4!"
Mommy also made a vanilla cake in case anyone didn't like, or couldn't have, chocolate. Because she had some extra blue frosting in her piping bags, this one she doodled on in the "Nickolympics" theme.
On Nick's "actual birthday," we went to church, and the Sunday School kids (Julianna and Nick included) came into Mass to sing us a Christmas song. Later on, we went to Julianna and Katie's dance recital (all dances from "The Nutcracker") and then Darell and Kathryn took us out to dinner!
If there's one thing we've noticed about our newly-four-year-old boy, it's that he has become very LOUD and very, very SILLY!
He spent most of his "actual birthday," and the days since, playing with his presents! He has really been enjoying each and every present. Here are a few photos I've captured of some of them:
Nick already had some of this train track, but he got the airport (in the foreground) and more track for his birthday.
