Yesterday, Russell turned 4! I didn't know how we would be able to top it after last years car cakes and big digger toys, but I think he was pretty happy (and still is) with his 4th birthday.
Ever since last year, he has thought all birthday cakes ares supposed to be cars, but I showed him a cool construction site cake and he agreed that he could have a construction machine birthday cake. It turned out great and easy! He only asked to just look at the machines and insisted they wanted to watch tv with him every day since we bought them a week ago.
We went to our friend's house and had pizza with them because their baby turned 1 yesterday, too! They are Russell's favorite friends, so he had lots of fun with them. He started asking after breakfast if it was time to go to their house. Because of that we opened presents early in the day. We got him a big bike about a month ago, and he got the little machines from his cake. We wanted to make sure that he had something to open so we got him a couple things from Dollar Tree like a flashlight, some little cars, etc.
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| Meghan kept hoping one of the presents was for her. |
I love being Russell's mom! He is such a sweet, cheerful boy! He loves singing and you can almost always find him singing one of the primary songs he has learned. Most days (and sometimes at all three meals of the day) he thanks me for making the food. He is mostly pleasant most of the days. He is a pretty good helper most of the time. He still loves his mommy and will just come up to me at different times throughout the day and give me a hug and a big smile. And, this week he asked me if I wanted to come and snuggle him on the couch while he was watching his shows.
While he is definitely Mommy's boy, he loves to putz around the yard with Ben. Shoveling snow with Ben is still one of his favorites winter activities. He loves to tinker with things, and I foresee a future of him helping Ben with various projects around the house. He usually starts asking if it is time for Daddy to come home about 9am, and as soon as he hears Ben's car backing into the driveway, he comes running from where ever he is in the house to the back door so that he can open it up for Ben to come inside.
We sure do love our Russell and are so thankful to have him in our family!
3 comments:
Russell is lucky to have a great mom to make him that construction cake! And we are lucky to have Russell as our grandson, we sure do love him and are sad that he (and the rest of your family) doesn't live closer to us. We loved talking to you yesterday, Russell. Happy 4th birthday!
Nice cake, Rusty. Nice hair, Meggie. I'm sorry I thought your birthday was the 7th instead of the 6th.
I am impressed that he thanks you for his meals! Good training, Mom and Dad!!
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