birthday celebration.

cole's birthday celebration was low key this year.

we had some family over for dinner and made it a causal affair.  i really am glad that i did not try to throw a party, it would have been too much with everything going on.  but we had fun today celebrating with cole.  i am a firm believer that you should be able to do pretty much whatever you want on your birthday.  within reason, of course.  and so that is kind of what we let cole do.  he got to pick whatever he wanted to eat and play/do whatever he wanted to.  therefore, our day was filled with strawberries, oranges, cupcakes, cheese puffs, french fries, elmo, trains, and driving.  these are some of cole's favorite things.  

he was able to blow out his candles by himself!

 enjoying his 2nd cupcake of the day.

 yum!

brenner's cousins bought cole a new basketball goal!

 aunt jenna and uncle adam got him elmo!

about 4 months ago i found cole a batman/superman cape.  he doesn't know who they are yet but he loved wearing it! 

 not as crazy about the eyemask

 waiting for the basketball hoop to be assembled.

 cole wanted to play with all of his new toys at once so he wore his cape while dunking elmo!

 uh-oh.

he still has some more presents in store, as we didn't open all of them at once.  

i also think a birthday celebration is spread out over the course of a week.  

the husband thinks this is a great idea for cole so he doesn't go into system overload with all the toys at once.  i have not sold him on the fact that mine also needs to continue for a whole week.  

i am working on it.