he's five!

today is xander's fifth! i can't believe it. i know, i know...every mother says that with every birthday. but it just doesn't seem possible? how did my cute cuddly mama's boy grow into a ball playing - tv watching - social butterfly?

his birthday fell on friday this year. we brought cupcakes to school and gave the kids in his class frosting and sprinkles to decorate them. i love these pictures i got of him blowing out his candle.

after school we packed up and headed downtown to turner field for a braves game. (too bad they lost again). at first xander was totally bummed out, cause his team had a game that night too. "i don't want to miss my game. forget the braves! i want to play!" - or something like that came out of his mouth. but as usual he had a good time watching "the bigs".

because we had the game planned for the night of his birthday we celebrated at home on thursday night. todd made an incredible cake, as usual. xander's request was a transformers cake. so, todd created his favorite one - bumblebee.

at school the pre-k classes participated in a trike-a-thon the day before x's birthday. all the students brought in their bikes, trikes, scooters, big wheels, etc. to ride around the school parking lot - while raising money for St. Jude's hospital. i knew that xander would not want to bring in the bike we had for him. it is a hand-me-down from one of our friends, but it is purple with flowers. he never did notice until about two weeks ago. last year grandma & grandpa d sent him money for a scooter. he's gotten pretty good at it lately, so he decided that he would use that for the trike-a-thon. BUT i knew that for his birthday i wanted to get him a new bike. i'd been thinking about it since last year. so i talked todd into giving him a present a day early. todd showed up at school, bringing the bike and a very large balloon (at my last minute request). we called xander out of class to give it to him...yes, he was pretty excited and very surprised. and when it came time to ride that bike in the trike-a-thon he looked like a pro. you never would have known it was his first time on it.

overall, xander's birthday(s)- two thumbs up!