birthday

Jolon has enjoyed all of his birthday celebrations so much. We've been talking parties, presents and cakes for weeks. At school as well, they celebrated with him on the actual day and then today was the school-wide November birthday party, so lots more attention directed at him. Still, I think it's pretty confusing to go from 3 to 4 in one day. Tonight he looked up and asked, "Am I still 4?"

Jolon's 4th birthday party

Jolon had a great birthday party with Auntie Erin and Peter, Suzie and Vince, and Craig. He got some amazing presents: a glow in the dark skeleton and book about the human body from Grandma Jude, a pillowcase he can color on from Grammy and Grandpa, play-dough toys from Suzie, a snake and pirate towel from Vince, an art book from Craig and Lisa, swords and various ninja goods from Peter and Erin, puzzles and books from us. The pirate cake was a big success. We think Kellan may have actually enjoyed eating it more than anyone else.

Kellan playing with his sushi

2 cute things Jolon says:

"That's mines", instead of mine.

He uses the expression "all the day," to mean "too much." As in, "I don't want to wear that shirt all the day," if I ask him to wear a shirt that I like, which he doesn't. Or if I ask him to eat some fruit: "I don't want to eat fruit all the day."

Both of these expressions could easily corrected if I bothered to teach him the correct way, but I think they're so cute, I can't bear to correct him. In fact, I use them the same way he does! Bad Mom...

Kellan

The other day I brought home some English scones from a food festival. I put butter and jam on them and served them for the boys' snack. I was cleaning in the kitchen while they were eating and when I looked up, Kellan, who usually dumps things into his milk and/or dumps his milk onto his food, was very carefully dunking bites of his scone into his milk and then eating them. I was pretty impressed as the traditional way to eat scones is with cream. Going back to his English roots I guess!

Walk down the aisle

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This is Jolon walking the down aisle with little Sarah. Sorry, the color is weird... the camera accidentally got switched to night vision. See how he tries to give the ring box to the priest, who gently refuses and points in my direction where he is supposed to go next.

Ring bearer

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Jolon did a fab job of walking up the stairs, giving the ring to the priest (going the wrong way, but got back on track with the help of an attendant), accepting lollypop and kiss, managing to not fall coming down the steep stairs. Notice just before he gets to me, he wipes his eyes with his arm. So nervous he was almost in tears!