Birthday Boy

Cason had a great birthday. Neely and I were up first, so I got her into her high chair with some snacks to keep her entertained while I got Cason's birthday breakfast ready.

Jess ran to the store the night before for me, and got a gigantic Thomas the Train balloon, chocolate muffins, and some other little treats. I got his chocolate muffin and some milk, his balloon, a card Paige illustrated for him,
his robot birthday crown, and his first present-a batman t shirt.

He was VERY pleased when he walked in.
Paige entertained him with a "Birthday balloon dance".
He mostly ignored her dance, inhaling his muffin.

Then we talked to Jess, and he said he'd sent an E-card for Caso. So I pulled that up.
It featured cats and mice dancing and playing maracas. Cason liked it and said "Daddy's silly."

He finished his chocolate muffin, and we moved outside to make mud ones.
Left those to bake, had a bath, and left to pick Jess up for lunch.
Cason practiced showing people how old he is on his fingers. Pretty frustrating, making that ring finger work separately from the pinky. There may have been a few tears, before he discovered he could do it this way:
We took him to his beloved Panda for a birthday lunch.
Caso THOROUGHLY enjoyed his meal. Neely played with her carrot.
And flirted with people eating near us.
After we took Jess back, I decided to brave the heat and take them to the park, since it was his birthday, after all.
It felt SO.DANG.HOT. and there was no shade. So I ended up sitting at the bottom of the big tube slide, with Neely inside it. She loved it, and climbed almost to the top a few times.
Then I made them all pose. Neely couldn't peel her adoring eyes off of her brother.
I gave them a quick push in the swings and we went home.
The birthday boy decided we'd play cowboys a while.
We ended the day with a trip to Sonic and then Kmart, where Caso picked a new Iron Man toy that walks and his eyes light up. He LOVES him. We were planning to only give him 1 or 2 small things on his birthday and save the rest for his party. But he ended up getting everything, big AND small. Including the remote control robot from Paige.
Which he LOVED. ( I also may have spotted them at Kmart, and am pretty much gonna have to get one so we can race them. I mentioned that there are more of them, and I heard him quietly tell his robot: "You'll have a friend soon.")

I saw The Robot Book somewhere online, and it looked fun, with moving parts, gears, etc. on the pages. He also LOVES a book called Robot Zot, that we got at the library a few weeks ago, and I found it in the bargain section at Hastings. Woohoo!
He said thank you to me so many times yesterday for everything, and was still thanking me today. Sweet boy.