Logan turns 4 years old today, and we had a packed day of celebrations.  After dropping off the kids at school, I picked up some grocery then came home to finish making some Oreo cupcakes.  I brought the cupcakes to school at 10am for their morning snack.  When I arrived, the teacher began the birthday activity.  She had Logan came up to sit in the front of the class, but Logan would go only after I was invited to sit with him.  The teacher announced that it was Logan’s birthday and he would be the king for the day, but Logan did not want to wear the crown. She told the kids that Logan would be the first doing everything today (i.e. go outside, sit down for lunch, etc), and his friends would do his chores for him too.  They also made a birthday board together by having all the kids spelling out Logan’s name.  Afterward, we moved on to sitting down at the tables, then everyone sang the birthday song to Logan.  Logan was shy getting all the attention, and wanted to hold my hand for comfort. The kids enjoyed the cupcakes; Logan loved the Oreo cookie, licked off all the whipped cream and only ate a little of the chocolate cupcake.  After snack time, I said my goodbye to let the class returning to their routine. 

     On my drive home, I thought about how time has flied.  I got a bit emotional thinking about how I felt when the nurse placed the newborn Logan onto my chest for skin-skin bonding four years ago today, and how I got sad the first day coming home with baby Logan and discovered that most of my prepared receiving blankets were too small for him.
   At 2:30pm, I went back to school to pick up Logan for our movie date.  It was funny that most kids were up from nap by then and it was quite loud, but there were still two girls sleeping comfortably in the middle of all the happenings.  When we got to the theater Logan was so excited as we waited to get inside the movie room.  He was happy to start watching advertisement then the movie “Madagascar 3” which he enjoyed along with his special popcorn treat.  During the show, the word “stupid” was said three times in a row; Logan pointed it out to me every time (as this has been labeled a bad word at school).  After sitting down for an hour and 20mins or so, Logan suddenly had enough and wanted to leave.  He was antsy for a little bit and took some convincing before we could finish the movie.  The movie was good, but I did fall asleep briefly in the middle of it to take a break.  I asked Logan if he liked it, and he actually said “No, because they were shooting the animals and that was not nice!”.

    We then drove over to Chuck E Cheese to have our final celebration of the day.  Stuart picked up Connor and met up with us there.  A couple of Logan’s school friends, Rohan and Bar, also came to join us for the fun dinner.  The kids were excited to check out all the cool games and rides inside.  Logan wanted to play with the bigger kids games while Connor was into the electronic rides.  Logan liked checking out games on his own, but he did play with Rohan and Bar sometimes.  Bar’s sister Raz and Connor loved hanging out together, squeezing into the seat together during many rides.  Raz kept running around calling out for Connor.  In between playing, we took a break for pizza, then another one for trying some lollipops that one of the dads bought.  Rohan, Bar and Raz were loving it while Logan did not even care to try it.  Connor was excited to try it; he enjoyed licking it and holding it; fortunately he declared done shortly before making too much of a mess.  We made another break for birthday cake; Logan loved the cake as it had his favorite Mario Kart car on it.  The kids enjoyed the cupcakes while Logan once again declined them after taking just one bite.  Connor ate an entire one all on his own.  We played a little more, then it was time for everyone to head home.  The kids and I used our final tokens on a cool photo machine.

    It was a late evening by the time we got home, but Logan wanted to eat a little more pizza.  He only had a chance to open a couple of his presents.  The celebration will continue briefly tomorrow.