Our Baby Boy is 5!

We seem to say this every year, every birthday...We can't believe another year has gone by! How can it be, that our baby boy, little Harry, has turned 5?! Harry's party was on Saturday, and he had a GREAT time! Since Amelia's birthday, and her caterpillar theme, he has been talking about his birthday, and how he wanted everything to be dinosaurs! Well, we did our best. Andy was a trooper, with me still not feeling too well, he sure tapped into his creative side! I had this idea to make dinosaur eggs for each kid with little chochkeys inside. I was only able to make a couple...he finished the rest, totaling 30! His hands were green & blue from painting the eggs, but I think he had fun making them as well.
Thank you to the Ryan & Louise, and to Jessica for taking pictures, they are included below. It's so hard to take pictures and run around at your own child's birthday party.
And a HUGE thank you to Mema & Papa, and Gma & Gpa for ALL your help from the food to cleaning, I/We couldn't have done it without you! With me not feeling full power, sure is a warming moment to have an incredible family that is there when you really need them.
Thank you.

Thanks Erin & kids for making the trip too. This year, thankfully we had a good turn out for his party. Especially compared to last year, which was Gma & Gpa, and Mema & Papa, both years were a lot of fun though, just different. The weather is always bad on his birthday, which it was that day, but from what I could see the worst part was during the day.

So, thank you to everyone that came, from local to far away!

It was Nicole's birthday on Saturday. She lived or lives across the street from our old house. Sure was nice for her to make the trip on her birthday! So we had a little sweet treat for her and we sang.

Harry waiting patiently for people to gather so he could open gifts... (see some of the eggs behind him...)

Gift opening...it became a bit of a feeding frenzy. :) The kids kept moving in closer and closer to Harry to see what he received.

Amelia, hanging with the boys.

Harry opening one of the eggs. Each child got to take one home with them.

Matthew (another friend from Grand Rapids...thanks for the pics and making the trip), getting into his egg.

Uncle Brian playing with Harry.

Harry having a dino 'hatch'

Amelia kept finding treats and putting them into Harry's garbage truck. She kept appearing with more and more candy. Little sneaker.

I realized the next day that I had not taken any pictures of the eggs. There were a couple left, so I snapped a picture before they were opened up.

I thought this looked so funny. Some of the left-over eggs that Harry & Nina went through the next day laid there like they had just hatched.

Sunday, Harry's birthday. He requested a castle cake like the one daddy made last year for him (you can see it in the picture from last year). Well, it didn't go as planned and the cake, well, it didn't turn out as it should have. So we put some dinosaur cookies on it. It looked like they had destroyed the castle, Harry loved that, especially that the cookies were so yummy.

One of his and daddy's favorite books from the library, is now ours. It was one of his presents from us, he was so excited that he got to keep it!

The first thing in the morning that he said to me was that his fingers were 'blinking' 4-5, 4-5, as he held his hand out to me with his thumb hitting his palm then going out, back and forth... he said then this morning it stuck on 5. Our big boy. Happy Birthday baby boy!