Logan turns five today.  I can’t believe so many fun years have passed; now he has turned into a big skinny tall boy. 

     I got out of work early today to keep our tradition of watching a movie together on his birthday.  When I arrived at school to pick him up, I realized that we had missed a paper notice that Logan brought home yesterday.  It was a short questionnaire to ask about Logan’s favorite things and to invite the parents for a spotlight for his birthday.  Since I happened to be there, the teacher and I decided to do an impromptu one.  Logan sat next to the teacher in front of the whole class.  She asked Logan a few questions about his favorite things; Logan’s first answer was that he likes playing with Connor.  Awww!!  She went on asking about his love of drawing and his favorite animal.  She was interactive with the entire class while Logan called on his friends to answer the questions too.  They then talked about why Logan was special to them; the kids were raising their hands to answer that.  One boy said “Logan is special to me because he is cute!”  Everyone had a good laugh at that.

    As Logan said his favorite book was “The Three Little Pigs”, they wrapped up the spotlight by doing a drama together.  Logan chose to be one of the houses, then the teacher assigned the rest of the kids into the parts.  All the kids were very into the little play, saying the few lines and making the wolf sounds.  I saw Logan even rocking to the music too.  I then took a picture of the class.  What a joyful surprise for me at pick up today!

     Logan and I then went to watch “Monster University”.  Logan was excited and we basically ran all the way from the parking lot to the ticket booths.  The movie was great, just like the first one.  Logan was focused in it but started to move around the last 15 minutes.  He later on even asked me to go, and when I asked him the reason, he answered “I want to go to Chuck E Cheese”.

    We finished the movie, then met up with Stuart and Connor at Chuck E Cheese.  Connor was happy to see us, and he was even more happy that we were in that place.  Rohan, Vrinda, Bar, Raz and Revital also came to join us to celebrate with Logan.  Logan and Rohan immediately went off to play on their own.  They took turns coming toward us to get a couple of tokens and shared each game with each other.  They were so independent, and just came for food when they were ready.  Connor tried many different machines, some shooting and some riding ones.  Later on, he liked playing with the machines that gave out tickets.  He once came to show the parents the tickets he earned, we gave him a big applause.  Since then, he must have come back at least 10 times to show us his rewards and his big smile.  We then sang the birthday song to Logan and he became a bit embarrassed.  We all enjoyed the cake and some more playing before we ended the night.  This was such a packed afternoon that we all had forgotten about his presents.  I guess they will have to wait until this weekend.