Logan's Birthday Party

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First of all, I want to thank everyone that came to help us celebrate, especially with that "wonderful weather" we had in the beginning! Of course, it was cloudy ALL day and waited until about 5 to start pouring! But, it let up and the thunder/lightning subsided quicky and the kids enjoyed the pool afterall! Logan is still reeling with pure happiness about his party! This has FOR SURE helped me (and Roger) know that us beginning this "fake" birthday thing was a great, wonderful, glorious, fabulous, super, etc.....idea! It has been SO nice to see him enjoying JUST his birthday, really for the first time!

This was his first birthday party with friends too! I will say that our pool was probably at it's max. capacity yesterday. Our family made up about half of the load and the friends the other half! We grilled hot dogs, swam, roasted marshmallows, had cake & ice cream, and then opened presents....oh yeah, and the Darth Vader pinata before swimming (that was a little crazy with everyone crammed inside for that...can't exactly have candy fall out on the soaking wet ground)!

All the kids seemed to have a blast and could care less about the wet weather, after all, they were here to get wet anyway. I always feel like I neglect the adults at parties while we are busy getting/doing everything for the kids, but they all seemed to have fun too!

When it was all over, my grass covered,wet floors and my fly infested house (AH!)at least looked like everyone had a good time! Logan woke up this morning and immediately began playing with all his new stuff! He loves all his new Start Wars stuff, his How to Train a Dragon Viking Outfit, Operation (I think it's so cool that it talks/makes sounds to let you know what to extract...no cards! My how times have changed!), a Toy Story Shake and Go Car, and his new towel with his name on it! He also can't wait to put his new golf tees in his golf bag (he says ALL of them, but I am not sure they'll all fit!). He even loves his Star Wars underwear!!! ;) He's already asked to go buy something with "those" cards too...so we are planning a trip to Toys R Us and Walmart with him tomorrow.

One of the best things about being a mom is seeing your kids absolutely happy!!! Once they get out of the "baby" stage it's hard to notice the "new" stuff they do, but here are a few milestones from this year for Logan:

~He has learned to "swum" underwater and has no fear in the pool! Jumps off the diving board and all!

~He uses LOTS of big words and has a very extensive language (even our speech teacher is amazed that he is only going into 4K and not 5K!)!

~He LOVES to rhyme! We play our "rhyming game" all the time! He of course will make up non-sense words at times to have a word that rhymes, but he can rhyme with most anything. If he makes up a words, he will start his words with either a /b/ or a /sm/...not sure why!?!

~ He loves to read (but really always has!!!), but now he is reading his favorite pages to us (really memorized, but he used his finger to track along the words and even goes in the right direction).

~He can spell/write his name, and he can recognize lots of commercial print/logos! And, he counts past twenty (I'm really not sure how high he CAN count..hmmmmm....)!

~He's trying to be very independent with most everything, and he can't wait for school to start in the Fall. He tells you exactly what he wants!

~He randomly walks up to us and tells us "I love you!" with hugs and kisses while he's playing (it's the sweetest thing)!

~When he's tired (and Roger's home), he'll "sneak" back out of bed to cuddle his Daddy on the couch and watch the Braves game (and get his back rubbed until he falls asleep).

I am sure there are many more things that he's doing now, but that's a good enough list for now! Though he's not technically 5 and won't be until Christmas, he had a GREAT birthday party! Now, we begin getting things ready for our Disney Trip next week (we leave Tuesday)! I should have LOTS of good pictures to post when we get back from that!!! We ALL can't wait!