The almost birthday boy.

Griffin makes off like a bandit for his birthday celebrations. He gets three separate celebrations all because he was born 2 days before Christmas. He has a party the weekend before with his friends so that all of his comrades will be in town to celebrate with him.

Then, we have a little party at school that is so sweet that I bawl my eyeballs out every year. He holds the earth and walks around the sun with the 12 months surrounding it for every year that he's been alive. The children sing this adorable song about the days of the year and everyone is off key and screaming the words. It's just precious. They all put imaginary gifts into an imaginary box for him. The children say stuff like "I'd put in 1000 Ninja Turtles" or "hugs from his mommy." It's almost too much to handle.

Here he is walking around the sun.

Oh...and I successfully made cup cakes for his class.
They actually came out decent
I'm just so flippin' domestic these days
I can hardly recognize myself.

So, next week, on his actual birthday he'll get presents
and celebrate his 5th b-day with his cousins.

The kid is lucky that I feel so
much Mother's guilt that his
birthday is so close to Christmas.

Oh, how I love my spoiled little birthday boy!