Easton was officially 7 years old on Monday.
He spent his last [conscious] 6 year old moments playing a little bonus Wii with Dad on Sunday.
He loves to play with Jason but they just don't get the chance all too often. And Jason had plans for the BCS National Championship game on Easton's birthday so they had to get it in ahead of time.
He was up later than normal and we actually had to wake him up on his birthday! We opened his door and made noise and that didn't work. We turned off the humidifier and sound machine and sang happy birthday and eventually he wandered in clutching the "Happy 7th birthday, Easton!" balloon I'd stuck to the wall by his head:
I'd also decorated Jason's and my bed with 7 blue balloons:
He hopped up for some birthday wishes and then Jason suprised him with his first gift which was a remote control helicopter. He hid it on the side of the bed and just made it fly right up. Here's Easton trying to figure out what the noise was:
It was a hit!
The battery only lasts about 5-7 minutes of flying so then he was like, "I wonder what's next?" and ran down to grab himself a gift off the table. Stinker:
It was Battleship. We like games around here.
Then he got dressed for school. He had wanted to wear a "handsome shirt" for the occasion. I had him pose outside his room which I had also decorated a bit:
The kitchen table of gifts minus the helicopter and Battleship:
He wanted to open the gift from Dalton. Dalton had very carefully selected a book about dinosaurs for his big bro who is currently planning to become a paleontologist. He also found a T-rex shirt on clearance that he wanted to get so we stuck that in there too:
Then it was on to his birthday doughnuts he'd requested:
Dalton and Jason headed off at that point to pre-K and work and not too much later it was 8:08, his exact time of birth so I had him stop putting on his shoes:
Then Autumn and I took him to school. It made me sad. This is the first time he had school on his birthday. Last year it was on a Sunday and the two years before that he didn't have school every day so he just happened to miss having school on his birthday. But not this year. :( It was the first time I didn't spend his whole birthday with him.
I take that back.
On his actual birth day I saw him for a minute before they took him away to the NICU:
And for a few minutes when my employee friends broke the rules and snuck him over to see me because they felt so bad for me:
I was the sick one on his birth day, remember? He was doing just fine (for the circumstances) that first day:
So I guess I didn't spend that birthday with him either. But I was hardly conscious of the fact that I had become a mother and was instead more concerned about the Broncos playoff game and mad that Jason was drinking a Vanilla Coke in front of me when I could only have ice chips. :) Anyhoo....
Instead of spending the day with him (and therefore, Jason didn't take off work like he normally does for the kids' birthdays) Autumn and I went thrifting with Z's mom and sister. It was a good time and I got lots of deals. She's got a talent for that sort of thing. She helped me find all sorts of stuff I didn't know I needed. :) I left in the nick of time to pick up Dalton and our neighbor Emery from school and got them home to pick up the cupcakes I'd made:
And I got to use the cupcake feature of my cake transporter for the first time:
Do you, perchance, remember when this happened?
Well, Jessica and Janna made sure to get me a super cool cake carrier that I just love:
I use it a lot but that was the first time I'd needed to carry cupcakes anywhere since getting it. We took it and some McDonald's up to E's school to join him for lunch:
I think he felt pretty special, so many kids wanted to sit with him but the table was already pretty full of us plus 3 other boys from E's class:
Easton didn't eat much of his requested lunch. His appetite has been strange lately. It's actually got me a smidge concerned because he never has eaten much to begin with, ya know? But anyway...because it was his birthday he still got a cupcake. But not before he wore the foolish headband:
And was serenaded by his classmates:
They have a class rule where no one else can touch their cupcake until the birthday kid has taken the first bite:
Which is why I waited to even put a cupcake in front of Autumn:
Rascal!
Kaelan just loves Autumn. Autumn loves Kaelan too but in this picture it appears she loves her cupcake more:
Easton was loving having his best brother there with him:
In fact, as we were leaving Easton looked on the verge of tears. When I asked him about it, he said he didn't want Dalton to go.
But before that...lunch turns into quiet time. They eat in their classrooms at this school and so they have to clean up before they move on to quiet time. The kids are supposed to clean up after themselves but there was still chocolate crumbs all over the floor so I started sweeping up. Autumn was laying on a bean bag with a stuffed mouse pretending to nap and Easton and Dalton were together. I finished up and Autumn was no longer on her bean bag. She wasn't with Kaelan (the other likely possibility) I couldn't see any short people running around the room. Before I was able to panic I spotted her two tables away at a table full of girls just coloring away:
She carried her drawing out of the school and was all, "I made this. I had a good day at school" like her brothers do. Goob.
The little two and I left and ran some errands until it was time to get Easton again. We hung a few balloons out the window to make him feel like the special birthday boy he was when we pulled up in the car line:
I had wanted to write on the windows like "Just Married"s do but didn't have time to get that kind of paint. Oh well.
We drove home where Jason was already waiting for us after leaving work a little early. Easton wanted to dig into some more gifts, so that's what he did:
A skateboard!
He was pretty excited about that one:
It was a hit with the other kids too:
His Clone Wars Wii game was another big hit:
A couple more gifts:
And then it was tough to decide, "What should I check out first? Hmmmm"
After checking out some stuff and playing his new Wii game with Dalton, we eventually headed over to Joe's Crab Shack because my crazy child wanted shrimp and crab for dinner--again, his lack of appetite lately, he didn't eat too much but he was happy.
We came home for some cake:
The little two went off to bed and J had told Easton he could stay up as late as he wanted watching football with him that night. So E was up for the entire sad shutout. :( Then our biggest boy headed off to bed.
I think he had a great day turning 7.
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