Happy 4th Birthday to Samson!

Four years have flown before us, and yet, I feel as though I've savored and experienced them all! Our lil guy, who's only getting LESS lil, turned 4 on Monday, 11/16. Ron had to work that night, so we pushed the family celebrations to Tuesday.

In the meantime, for Monday, I made chocolate cupcakes to take to school along with goodie bags to hand out to his friends. Sam's cupcake was 'special' of course, but he didn't learn this until they were being passed out and he told me after school that it was his MOST FAVORITE part of his birthday! Aw. If you want to get kids this age to eat the cake and NOT JUST lick the icing, bake a Hershey kiss in the middle... i'm a genius! On his birthday morning, when he got up, I had a couple small gifties wrapped around the living room, that he had to 'find.' One was a Buzz Lightyear parachute guy from the dollar store. He thought that was funny. As i type this, 5 days later, i have no idea where it is now...

So Tuesday, Ron completely outdid himself by making the yummiest "kid-friendly" dinner - chicken wings, potato wedges, tacos and baked sweet potatoes with mini marshmallows on top! Sam really liked it all, and then we got to the cake! Again, Ron really created a masterpiece (for the record, i had to work all day, or I'da helped more!) with Sam's cake, as you can see in the pics. Just really creative and fun! I think Sam was pretty full from supper, because he asked to eat his cake the next day! ;-) After cake, we opened a few gifts from Nanny and Pop-Pop which became a bit of a Disney's "Cars" theme, especially paired with cousin Kathie's package that arrived the next day (a Cars game, undie set and pen). Sam got his first pack of boxer briefs, which cracks me up, at this age/size. Like his butt couldn't look ANY cuter! Haha.
Our sweet son is only getting taller and older and i'm soaking it all in... L♥ve you, Bubs.