Carson's Birthday!

My baby is 5 years old! I can hardly believe it... He is such a little man and he just loves everything about being 5! We were having lunch and he asked for some ranch but said "I can do my own because I'm 5" and he did... he didn't cover his plate with it, he did just enough... He also thought he didn't have to go to preschool any more... "I'm 5 mom, I'm too old for preschool." We assured him that he would still get to go to kindergarten after he got done with preschool. He has been talking about being 5 for months and now that it is here he usually starts his sentences with"because I'm 5 I can do..."

We had a great time with his birthday. It was the first real birthday party that we have thrown for him. We had a nice family one last Sunday and a friend one on Monday. At first I didn't want to have 2 separate parties... just one big one with family and friends but we just wouldn't have the room and I was afraid that with all those people Carson would get shy and just mope about. So we split them and it turned out great! Thanks everyone for making the trip to spend a few hours with us, Carson just loved every second of the attention (which I was relieved about).

His first little friend party went great and everyone had fun, even me. He wanted a spider-man birthday party so that is what we did. We invited 5 kids, mostly from his primary class, and we played pin the spider on the spiderweb, then had a cake walk, let the kids play out side (it was a nice day!), opened presents and had cupcakes. All the kids were so great... I was so impressed with how well everyone got along! The party only lasted a little over an hour which was the perfect amount of time for everyone, I thought.
Thanks to everyone for the presents they were all very thoughtful and Carson has been having a blast with them!