Benny Turns 5

Oh, the big "5" and starting K in less than a week... growing up! Still sweet as ever though, and I'm continuing to cherish every step along his way. This year we had a pool party to celebrate the birthday. We had it at a nearby public pool that had water slides, a lazy river, play pool and diving boards. The fun diving boards.... Benny did his flip off one of those thingies and landed on his back, when he got out of the water I could clearly see the tears. His back, bright red. He goes in a tough 5-yr-old man voice, "I'm not going on those again!" Yeah, take that you diving boards, you. We had pizza, cake and Italian ice. After lunch we heard over the intercom, "Everyone please exit the play-pool, we will resume swimming in this area in 30 minutes." Then out comes the nice lady with a bucket of pool-shock and someone with a turd-net.... then the friendly reminder to take your kids to the bathroom frequently while at the pool was announced loudly amongst us. Gross.

Benny still enjoyed his day with wonderful friends and was very thankful for all of the nice gifts. His favorite was the skateboard he got from Mom & Dad.

We missed some very important friends at the party, so we had our own post-party today at Peter Piper, it was fun!! We actually got to celebrate Benny's B-day 3 times. One with family on the actual day, one at the pool with almost everyone, then our good friends that we missed at the big party. So today Benny thought he turned 6 for a brief moment til' Mom broke out the reality.

Happy Birthday Benny, we love you!!