The big 0-5!

Hello 'Big Boy'hood!  :) :)  :)  Goodbye little boy!  :(  :(  :(

Gray turned five on February 17th.  He had as he called it "three birthdays"  One the day before his birthday at school, the day of his birthday, (when he was on vacation from school) and the Sunday afterwards, when he had his birthday party.

He was spoiled by lots of presents from lots of friends and family and was introduced to Tomica - a toy that includes different tracks, roads, buildings and structures to create a large city.  He LOVES that.  It has battery operated trains on tracks with tunnels, multi-levels, and an interactive city system that is connected by a roadway.  He wasn't so excited about turning five as he knows that being five years old means you go to kindergarten and he feels sad about leaving his friends.  He also knows that timeouts now go from four to five minutes long - one minute per year of age.  He has also developed some apprehension about losing teeth.  Its tough growing up!

Our house looks like a toy hurricane!  Here is the 'hypercity'

anxiously awaiting my chocolate chip cookie cake

Happy 5th Birthday, Gray-bear!

Here's a few from the birthday party:

on our way to the party

"this is like christmas!"  the kids are catching on that I pose them in front of the fireplace!  :)

Little ladies man.  You should have seen the stir this picture caused on facebook!

Mmmm.  A hamburger cake!  The children were so baffled.  "Is that REAL???"

Matthew and Reilly cheering Gray on

got all of Daddy's gaming DNA.  He's pretty good at video games!