THE BIRTHDAY
We surprised Ian on his birthday with the dining room decorated with rainbow streamers and a few other decorations throughout the house. His reaction was worth all of the work to do it after bed time on Thursday night!
The streamers were long, plastic, table clothes cut into strips (pretty much along the seams where they were folded in the packaging). We hung a hula hoop (Matthew’s birthday present for Ian) around our ceiling fan, then wrapped one end of the table cloth/streamer around the hoop, and stapled the table cloth around the hoop. We stuck the other end of the streamer to the ceiling around the edge of the room with double-sided tape. Once we got the streamer done, we blew up some balloons and used string to attach them to the hula hoop. It wasn’t an overly hard thing to do but it took a lot of time and was kind of a hot, tiring, frustrating experience. LOL You definitely need two people to do it. We also periodically found streamers that had fallen down and were hanging so we kept having to pin them up. The double-sided tape didn’t seem to want to stick to our ceiling for whatever reason. Overall, it was totally worth it because it was a huge hit on Ian’s birthday and for his party.
After work, the whole family went to Olive Garden (Ian’s pick) for his birthday dinner. Afterward, we went back to our house for cake, ice cream, and presents.
Matthew had a hard time with present opening this year….
SUPER excited to get a video game!
…..and a random unrelated video that Matthew took:
Saturday night, we had Mike’s family over to celebrate with them. Ian got some really awesome presents!
Ian’s favorites were a video game…..
….solar system book, constellation night light, and…..
…..A SKATEBOARD!!!!
THE PARTY
Saturday afternoon, we had a few of Ian’s classmates over to the house for a small birthday party. I think Ian had an AWESOME time!
Ian didn’t really have any one theme he was interested in so we decorated with the colors of the rainbow:
(I used the extra pieces of plastic table cloth streamers to make a rainbow table cloth for our kitchen table. And I sorted a giant party bag of peanut M&Ms into the separate colors. LOL)
When Colin, Patrick, and Megan arrived, we jumped right into the pizza, french fries, and breadsticks!
After filling up on some yummy food, the kids moved down to the playroom and played for a while. Twister was a huge hit!
Soon it was time for cake, ice cream, and presents!
THE PEDIATRICIAN APPOINTMENT
I took Ian to his annual pediatrician visit on Monday, February 27th.
- Height: 48 1/4” (92nd percentile)
- Weight: 47lbs (63rd percentile)
- BMI: 14 (19 percentile/Healthy)
While we were there, the nurse took him for a vision screening which he passed with flying colors.
The doctor did his normal routine and asked about school, diet, and exercise but there really wasn’t much to talk about at the visit. Ian didn’t have any sick visits in the last year and is doing really well. He’s a pretty healthy, well-adjusted little boy so it was a fast check up.