Grant turns 4!

Last year, the kids' birthday celebrations were super low key. We had just moved in and had just added Eden to our family. I was deep in a cloud of postpartum apathy. So this year, I was determined to make it up to them. I told them the sky was the limit.  Grant's response was that he didn't want a big party with "lots of crazy kids". He wanted to have Will and Makayla (our friends from church who live across the street) over to go swimming, play Wii, and eat cheese sandwiches. So that is what we did. Almost. Mom, Cori and I inflated nearly 50 green balloons and stuffed the G's bedroom while they were sleeping. The balloons plus the teepee amounted to more fun than any video gaming could have provided. The other thrilling highlight of the afternoon was finding a scorpion IN THE POOL on the ledge that is under the water cascade. It was collected into the bug catcher and continued to terrify me as the kids scrambled over whose turn it was to hold it and look at it.

He is a 4-year-old boy through and through. If you ever want to make your 4-year-old boy smile like this, you might try saying something like, "pee pee, poo poo, farts and burps." I got desperate. But look at the results! Here are some pictures of the big day: