My littlest man is 4!

I can't believe its been 4 years since my littlest man was born! Brenden is 4! Although sometimes it seems as though he's getting younger since we treat him like he's Jake's age and he thinks he's the same age as Jake. It can be pretty funny trying to explain to him that he is not as old as Jake and it will be a couple of years before he's old enough for whatever it is he thinks he should be able to do. More than one argument have been started because of this...

Anyway, Brenden had a very nice birthday. Brenden has had a hard time waiting for his birthday because Jake's birthday is just 9 days before. He gets very frustrated that he has to wait and in the past we've even given him an early present, but this year we wanted to break that habit. So everyday from Jake's birthday until his birthday, Brenden would wake up and ask if it was his birthday and when I would tell him no then he would ask how many more days. 9 days of this...at least it helped with counting backwards!

Brenden did luck out and get some early presents. My mom came into town on Friday night to see the boys for their birthdays and to help me because Chris would be leaving town for a few days. So on Saturday when she came over she wanted to give Jake a belated birthday present and also gave Brenden an early one. Also, my Aunt dropped off my mom and she had presents for both the boys birthdays. And then on Sunday my dad came over and took Brenden and Jake over to his house for lunch and presents like he did for Jake's birthday. So you can see that Brenden made out pretty good from my parents before it was even his birthday!

Also, on Sunday Brenden and I made chocolate chip and M & M cookies for him to take into school on Monday since he doesn't go to school on Tuesdays. The cookies turned out great and Brenden was a big help, he added almost all of the ingredients and was very eager to test the dough throughout the process:-) His class ate all of the cookies and sang Happy Birthday to him, he said it was a lot of fun.

For Brenden's actual birthday on Tuesday we had a very nice day. We started the day with chocolate chip pancakes and presents right after. He quickly ripped through all of his presents and was happy with all of them. For lunch, he went with my mom to get her nails done and they both went to McDonald's afterwards. He told me he got to have a chocolate milk shake - yummy! We did cake before dinner because I needed to pick up Chris from the airport at dinner time and didn't want him to have cake after we got back - there's no way he would have gone to sleep if he ate cake after 7pm ;) The cake was a hit and while I was picking up Chris, Uncle Chris came over with MORE presents.

Presents!!!!

The Cake

Chris and I were able to make it back from the airport before it was time for bed. I left two presents for the the boys for Chris to give them. So when we got home Chris gave Brenden a set of Legos and both boys Mario Cart and steering wheels for the wii, they were both thrilled! It was a really nice day and I'm especially happy that Chris was able to beat the storm and see Brenden on his birthday. And today when I asked Brenden what his favorite part of his birthday he told me it was all of his family - sweetest thing I've ever heard!

All in all, it was a great birthday! Happy Birthday B!