Happy 4th Birthday!

So I'm a little late in posting this (by exactly a week), but I'm still going to re-date the post to match with Ed's actual birthday.

Eddie turned four years old. All sorts of things were going to change in his mind when he turned four, or at least he told us so. He does mention being four a lot now. It's cute.

Last year he didn't want a party at all, so this year we thought we'd see if we could invite a couple neighborhood friends he plays with on a nearly-daily basis and he surprised us by wanting to include his entire preschool class as well.

I guess the birthday parties we've been taking him too in the last couple months have paid off. He knows the drill about the cake. I've been told that most kids Eddie's age change their mind, and change their mind again until you are ready to scream.

Eddie makes up his mind and sticks to it--just like his dad. He wanted to have a dog party from the first time we talked about his birthday. So we made dog invites complete with little dog ears (in blue, his favorite color). Den copied a dog cake out of a book (Den's looks better than the one in the book). We bought white icing and with the miracle that is food coloring, it became a blue dog.

When Eddie was a blue dog for Halloween 2 years ago, everyone thought he was Blu from Blue's Clues. I don't think he's ever even seen the show (maybe we should try and rent a couple episodes?).

We then had the kids make either cat or dog hats and provided crayons, stickers and such to decorate. Of course Eddie was a cat to shake things up a bit. They then made cat/dog collars out of candy (needless to say, they were happy to do this one for a while).

The only dud was a modified pin the dog part on the dog body--have the kids draw a dog part out of a bag, and then stick said part on the dog with their eyes closed.

I think a version of Simon says might have been more fun for them.

In all, it was a great sucess and despite that Eddie was not smiling a big toothy grin below, he was grinning the whole time (except when we had the camera out).

Everyone says the time goes quickly with kids, but man I can't believe how fast it goes. I know I have memories of my fourth birthday, I wonder what Ed's will be?