Birthday Season Recap

Well, the mega-birthday season has come and gone for us, with 9 of our family having birthdays near the end of October and beginning of November. We celebrated with all of our families over a few weekends, and, now that we’re in town, had the privilege of actually being able to celebrate (for the first time ever!) the twins’ birthdays with them on their actual birthday. During the whole birthday season I was sick with a nasty cough and then found out I was also pregnant, so not much picture-taking or jotting down of things that happened occurred. I do remember a few things though, so I’ll try and recap some of the funny things that Elijah said or did during the birthday celebrations.

• When we celebrated with Jon’s Mom and Terry Elijah wanted cake. We told him he had to kiss up to Grandpa to get cake, so he ran over to Grandpa Terry, put his arms up in the arm and started making the kissing face to Grandpa. He took “kissing up” literally!

• At Lexi and Tori’s house on their birthday they got little princess dress up dolls (Snow White and Cinderella I believe). Snow White came with a little dwarf doll too. The girls were playing and Eli wanted to join in, so they handed him the dwarf. He promptly threw the dwarf on the floor, and said, “I don’t want be dwarf. I want be princess!”

• On the way home from Lexi and Tori’s birthday dinner, Grandma started singing songs to Eli. She sang Frosty the Snowman and Elijah made a little, “huh,” sound. Mom kept singing, then Elijah said, “What’s that? What’s that about?” in a voice that conveyed that he thought what Mom was singing was the craziest thing he’d ever heard. We all cracked up laughing, it was so cute.

• Before we went down to Ohio to celebrate with my brother Scott and his family, all the toys were on the table waiting to be wrapped. Elijah was studying them all while Mom and I wrapped and was particularly fascinated with a giant dinosaur that Mom was giving Andrew. He asked to play with it, and who it was for, and then said, “That’s nice. That’s so nice.” Guess he thought it was a good gift!

• At Scott and Jill’s house the basement is set up with a tv, an air hockey table, and tons of toys, so naturally it was the place the kids wanted to hang out. After we got home though all I kept hearing was, “Want go back Andrew’s house. Andrew’s house fun.” Even as we got in the car to leave for Thanksgiving Elijah said he wanted to go to Andrew’s house. I think he’s going to be disappointed that we’re not heading down there for Christmas, but that Scott and Jill and the boys are coming here!

What a nice dinosaur you have, Elijah.