Happy Birthday N!

Today has been a busy day! I decided that today would be N's day and he could pick the day's festivities. We started the morning with our traditional special birthday pancakes:

Chef Boy-R-M helped me!

From there we got dressed and headed outside to ride in the boys' new truck. (Keep in mind that it is still around 8:30 a.m., but it is N's day... so I went with it!

Around 10 we headed to the zoo which was what N wanted to do more than anything. We have a great zoo here and have not yet been this spring. We had a great time and saw lots of animals. The tigers, lions, elephants, and snakes are the boy's favorites of course! We got rained out and had to leave a little early, but thankfully had already seen most of the important sites! I tried to get some pictures of this, but I was an over-ambitious mother taking both the boys to the zoo on my own and soon realized that if I slowed down long enough to take a picture, they were already off to visit a new animal! Last year, M was still in a stroller, but since he thinks he is 4 also, he refuses to sit in a stroller anymore!

From there, we met Daddy for lunch at N's pick of McD's... (not one of my favorites, but of course N wanted to go there due to the playground and we were limited on what we had to choose from due to the rain!) We then went to Toys R Us and N's favorite, The Red Store (Target!)

We then came home for M's nap and although N did try to rest, he was way to pumped up to sleep, so we played outside some more and played inside also. We played with his new Buzz Lightyear toy and his new Memory game. We also made cupcakes for his class tomorrow!

Daddy came home and we ate and had more birthday cake and then N opened a few more gifts. His favorite of the evening was a Spiderman costume that we gave him and he was a hoot jumping all over the house and climbing up tall buildings!

We had a fantastic day and N had a lot of fun. He is so excited to be 4 and I am so proud of him. He is such a good boy and such a joy to our lives! We were looking at his baby book and it is amazing how quickly the past 4 years have flown by!