Fin turned 4

My eldest baby turned four yesterday and while each birthday is sad for me because I CANNOT believe how fast they are growing, yesterday was such a fun and joy filled day, there was no time to be sad. Four is SUCH a fun age to have a birthday. He was enthralled with anything we did or he got and he was so sweet and grateful for everything. It was just a great day as family.
We woke up bright and early and had a new bike hidden for Fin in our bathroom. I sent him in there and he was beside himself. He looks so big here to me!

Then he got to eat the birthday cereal he picked out (fruit loops) and open a few more presents.

Of course we had to give him a spider man mask because whenever people talk about Halloween he tells everyone he's going to be spiderman and wear a spiderman mask. Message received :o)

Pat was pretty excited about it too.

We also got Fin a little remote controlled monster truck. BIG hit. Poor cole would run and run after it and not understand why it kept changing directions.

After we hung out at home some, we headed to our neighborhood pool for Fin's superhero swim party. We chose early in the morning so we'd have the pool to ourselves. It was a little chilly but the kids didn't seem to care. Pat was such a good sport playing with the kids in the water.

The spread

I made a cake out of stacked doughnuts for Fin and it was a big hit :o) It was pretty darn easy too.

Showing hold old he is.

I Love this pic of him. My sweet boy.

To say Cole was a fan of Fin's presents is an understatement. Homeboy had a little too much birthday before it was even 9 o'clock in the morning. And it wasn't even his birthday :o)

Doughnut face. He was double fisting them.

Pops kindly (??) regifted Fin with Hulk hands that Pat had given Will when he was a little boy and we were dating. Those things are SO loud and so obnoxious. Thanks Pops.

Hulk Smash.

At the end of the party we walked over to the playground for a water balloon fight. I don't know who liked it more, Pat and Will or the kids.

After naps the boys gleefully played with the new toys the rest of the day. I'm a big fan. Pat's a big fan of the instruments from David and Jamie. We now have a band. Please notice Pat's mask.

Fin's birthday dinner of choice was Happy Meals so we picked some up, tailgated at a park and let Fin practice riding his new bike.

At the end of the night I had to get a picture with the birthday boy. Love him so.

It was just a perfect day. At this age, with the boys being so young, we try to have no expectations going into  these days. Everything could go great or everyone could have a meltdown, you never know. But we just so enjoyed our boy and felt so blessed by all the family and friends that came out to make him feel loved. I think  four's gonna be a good one.