Christian's 4th Birthday...His ACTUAL birthday!

On Monday, June 21st, our little man turned FOUR. I can hardly believe that he is already four years old. Time has flown by. Christian has grown up so much and has such a personality all his own. One of the funnier things that he has started to do is when he doesn't like something that we have done or said, he very snarkily says "HMMPH".  After a year home with mom, Christian will be starting back at a new preschool come September and he will become a big brother around the same time. Lots of changes but I think he is looking forward to it all.


We love you, Bubba! Mommy and Daddy are SO proud of you!

Christian's 4th Birthday...Take 2

The weekend of Father's Day was also the weekend of Christian's actual birthday this year. Poor Daddy has had to take the backseat to Christian's birthday for the last couple of years. On Saturday, we invited all of Christian's friends from our Blue Sky playgroup to play in the backyard and cookout. It seemed like the kids all had fun playing in the sprinkler and the sandbox etc.

This is AFTER the birthday boy dumped the dinosaur watering can full of pool water over unassuming Joshua's head...he handled it well!

Very nice..... :)

The many faces of Christian....

Daddy was having some fun with our new camera and was able to capture some of Christian's best faces....

Christian's 4th Birthday...Take 1

Since Rich and I had to go to MA for a family wedding the week before Christian's birthday, we figured we could celebrate with our family and friends at the same time and cut down on some travel. We had the bash at Nana and Papa's house and all of our family that could make it and most of our MA friends were there too. Christian had a great time and got to hang out with his buddy Annie for the day!

Family fun in MA!

Rich and I had to head to up to MA for a long weekend so that we could see his cousin get married. Christian got to hang out with Nana and Papa for the day while we took off to Boston. Christian had a full day of swimming (even though the water was freezing according to Nana) and mowing the lawn with Papa on the ride-on lawn mower. :)

Here are some pics from before Mommy and Daddy took off, looking all dressed up...

A nice picture of us....

And what we really look like :)

Soccer Exhibition.

So, Christian is finishing up his first soccer session! There are about two weeks left but the gym held an exhibition so that the parents could sit in the room and watch and take pictures and then the kids all got medals at the end. The event didn't go so smoothly for us. One of the last activities involved the kids all getting pinnies and being assigned to a three person team and playing an actual "game" with nets set up and Coach Mike was the goalie for both. They had never really done this before and Christian doesn't quite get that people aren't going to just GIVE him the ball. At some point he was in tears and refused to play anymore and it just got uglier from there :) He eventually calmed down and participated in the last activity and the medal ceremony. Ah well, he will get it eventually!

The pictures for the most part didn't come out so great but here they are.