Buy Me Some Peanuts And Cracker Dax

The day has come and gone and at this point I'm glad. He's four and now it just is... I swear I struggled in a bad way with D turning 4. I took him on a date the day before his birthday and while waiting for "Rio" to start, I looked over at him with his big 3D glasses and literally started to cry. HE LOOKED SO GROWN UP!
I've since spoken to a few friends and the consensus seems to be that it's mainly with the oldest that these emotions kill us... I don't know, but I won't get into all of the physiological jumbo that probably goes along with the craziness of my feelings....

We (Dax and I ) kept going back and forth on what the theme of this birthday would be... at first it was a fishing theme, then it was a camp theme, then plane and then baseball and then Hawk (as in the bird) theme... then we settled on baseball since he's been looking forward to the Tball season... I showed him cakes and let him choose.... contrary to popular belief, he really did like the Boston Red Sox cakes better than the Yankees.... It was a pretty well kept secret till one night I over heard Dax talking to Kev about his birthday and Dax said "What's that called again, Dad?" Kev said "A birthday cake?" "No, no, no, Dad it's a Boston Red Sox cake" to which Kevin responded " I think I need to have a talk with your Mother"...... but up until that point Kev only knew it was a baseball theme.

It was a great party and probably would have been better enjoyed by Dax himself had I not let him take a nap up until our family started showing up... Oh well...

I dragged all three boys to this shoot at 10:00 ON his birthday... he did shockingly well which to me, proved that his mood was great and the nap ruined it all. He loved that it was his day... and quite frankly, at the shoot, I think he loved the attention on him being four.


His impromptu pose...


the invite...


Before the festivities began...




The amazing cake...


The Boston M&M's... seriously so fun!


and the Dax M&M's... LOVED them, even though for the price, Kev wanted me to charge a $5.00 fee for each handful taken...


All the colors of the Dax batch... I though white was easier to see...

What's a baseball party without cracker Jacks?










He came out of the house and said "What........the heck....... is this?!" He was so glad to get to ride it somewhere other than in the store... He wanted a Hawk bike so bad... the only kind we could find close to that request was a Tony HAWK bike... so we figured Eh, that works... he seemed pleased.






This part was just embarrassing. D didn't want to let anyone else hit the pinata because he wanted to win... not in the Charly Sheen sense of the meaning, but in the get all the candy so nobody else can enjoy it way...






Dax and Miss Soph playing their game that they just LAUGH doing...




Bennett! Love this kid!

Apparently Dax was all pictured out and took off on his bike so I couldn't get a picture of him with his friends....


Happy #4 D!!! Here's to hoping #5 takes a lot longer to get here ;)