Yesterday was my little man's seventh birthday. He has been strictly forbidden from growing at all this next year as he is just getting WAY too big! I can't believe how time has flown, and yet I have to say that I enjoy him more and more each year as he transforms from the unruly preschooler that he was into a calmer, more focused elementary school student.
We kind of started celebrating on Friday when Matthew got his first birthday card. Grandpa and Grandma Fulkerson sent him a Visa gift card and he thought it was pretty cool to have his own credit card. He bought an airplane and some fishing hooks for his new poll.
Grandpa and Grandma Litwiller came for a visit on Monday and they brought a surprise visitor, GG!! The kids did not know their great-grandmother was coming and they were STILL excited about it when they went to bed that night. We ate at Upper Krust, which Matthew chose because he loves their soup. Then we came home and Matthew opened up presents, which included a large Batmobile (almost a monster truck), a carnivorous plant set, and some t-shirts. He also received a check from his great-grandmother and a children's dictionary from his great-aunt and uncle. We had his cake that day since there were more people to eat it and then the kids played games with Grandma. Thankfully we have been given and have borrowed enough air conditioners that the house is very cool during the visit.
After Rob went to work, we took off and hit the Aquatic Center. The passes went half-price on Monday so we took advantage of that and plan to go a lot this summer. The boys are very confident in the water and other than checking to see where they are periodically, I don't have to worry about them. Which is good, because Anna takes up much of my attention! I'm her favorite playmate so we spend our time playing together.
Matthew was the first one up on his birthday and I let him play Wii until the rest of us got up. He requested chocolate chocolate chip muffins for breakfast and I had to find a new recipe since I couldn't find the old one! Good thing we have air or I would never have baked. Rob joined us just as we started to eat (he works until 2am now, so he sleeps in). We gave Matthew a Lego Pirates of the Caribbean set and he spent much of his morning putting it together.
He wanted to spend as much time at the pool as we could, so we all went at 11am when it opened. I like it when Rob comes with us because then I can go down the big slide without worrying that Anna is going to try and follow me :) We stayed until about 12:30pm, then we treated Matthew (and the rest of us) to McDonald's for lunch. We rested for the afternoon (well, Matthew played N64 all afternoon) and then we headed back to the pool after supper and stayed until 8pm. A local dentist paid for the pool to stay open an extra hour and they had tons of giveaways. Anna won a princess puzzle. The boys were disappointed that they didn't win anything, so I pointed out that the prizes all looked like dollar store toys. I then said, "And what happens to dollar store toys?" The boys replied in unison, "They brake!" I treated them to smoothies before we headed home.
We ended the evening with showers and the first pirate movie. Anna and Ben fell asleep pretty early on (I think Anna caught about five minutes of the movie, which is fine b/c she's too young to see it anyway!) Matthew made it to the end and did say that this was the best birthday ever :) And it's the first one since he turned three where he hasn't worried about getting older!
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