Happy 5th Birthday Noah!

April 26th was Noah's 5th Birthday!  Time has certainly flown by.

We had a wonderful, wonderful day!

When Noah woke up his door was covered in streamers and he was so excited about that.   I had a card at his place at the table, chocolate milk for breakfast and chocolate chip banana pancakes to eat.  We had made cupcakes the day before to take to school.  Noah also got a book/animal combo from Nana for Easter.  The animal is named Watson and he is a talking racoon that responds to keys in the stories.  It is really cool because it seems like Watson is interacting with the book.  Noah's class is studying caterpillars and Watson's book was about caterpillars so he took it in for the day.  He felt like the king of the world with his cupcakes and his chance to share Watson. 

When school was over Maeve and I were waiting with a big animal balloon for him and we went home and we had his favorite lunch, grilled cheese.  We put Maeve to bed and Daddy was home sick.  Noah and I went to the bank to cash a check he got from an aunt, we went to the post office to pick up a package from Afi and Amma and then we went for ice cream, just us.  He got coconut ice cream with M and M's!

He requested pizza for dinner and so we got that.  He played in the yard for hours and then we let him stay up a little later than usual watching his favorite show:  Busytown Mysteries. 

When it was finally time for bed we laid and talked about the day when I realized we had never given him his gift!!!  Paul ran up to the attic to get it for him and he was ECSTATIC! We got him a bean bag chair with his name on it.  He put it on his bed and slept on it!  When he woke up this morning he carried it with him everywhere!! Maeve likes it too!!!