Let the Celebration Begin

I love making the boys feel extra special when their birthdays come around.  It typically

turns into a week long celebration.  Breakfasts, lunches, dinners, outings...

whatever we can do to make them feel as special as we possibly can.  

Owen's birthday week started off with Medieval Times.  Then on Wednesday I went
to celebrate with him in his classroom.  He picked a story for me to read

(The Wonderful Things You Will Be) and picked a special birthday
treat (Star wars fruit snacks and clementines).  
 

Next, on Thursday we went to one of the boys' and my favorite lunch spots, Culvers.  It's

perfect!  They have this big TV in the dining room that they'll turn kids shows on if you ask.

This time they actually let us pick a movie and we picked Trolls.  We had never seen it, so

we stayed and watched the entire movie.  The boys eat pretty slow, plus we get ice cream

at the end, so we were happy taking our time and having a relaxing lunch and a movie.

We told them it was Owen's birthday, so they put extra sprinkles on his ice cream. :)

Friday we had our toy store outing to adopt our new family frogs, which brings us to today.

We were going to have a party with all of Ryan's family, but a lot of people couldn't make it.

We decided to cancel and celebrate on our own.  We took the boys to the movie Sing.  They

love going to the movie theater and we haven't been able to go since Miles was born.

I figured it was a great way to make Owen feel special.  I wasn't sure how it would be with Miles, but he did really well.  He got a little fussy, but then fell asleep for a good portion of it.  And the boys, of course, loved the movie, and the snacks we bought to go with it. 

 It was a beautiful day out (60 degrees in January!!).  Miles and Joe has already taken mini

naps at the movie, so when it was done we decided to skip naps and go play at the park.

 Then we finished up the day with birthday dinner.  Tim, Val and the kids met us for pizza

at Lou Malnati's, complete with a chocolate chip cookie pizza for Owen.

I think we've succeeded at making Owen feel super special this week and we aren't even

finished yet.  Tomorrow is his actual birthday and the big party with all of his friends.  He is

super excited about it and I'm equally excited for him.  Happy almost birthday Owen!!