Presents!

When you have 16+ friends invited to your birthday party, there are a few presents that need to be open.  We did not open the gifts at Monkey Joe's but waited to open them when we got home.  As with when he turned 3, he opened the gifts throughout the weekend.  So, when we got home, he opened 4 gifts (wonder how we arrived at that number) so he could enjoy those presents before opening more.  It works out really well, because he does get involved with the new toy and is not interested in opening the rest of the gifts.  Sunday, he opened another 4 more and then the rest of the gifts later in the afternoon.  He got a lot of cars which he really liked.  He also got some different building type toys which I know I look forward to building with him.  We and Grandma H gave him some books.  He also got a lot of Spider Man themed toys because that was the theme of his party this year:  motorcycle, night light, flash light with changeable lenses, towel, pillow case and bubbles.  I like the A, B, Cs and drawing pad that Alex and Ellie gave him because he really needs to work on these this year.  His big present from us was a play table we put in the playroom.  We will enjoy it too because it will be MUCH easier on us to play with him at the table instead of on the floor.  I know he will like that. 

He had his friends Alex and Ellie come over to play with his new toys...which did cause a few arguments because Alex wanted to take home one of his new toys and Collin was upset because he had not even had a chance to play with it.  Glad I am good at distracting and redirecting their attention.  Ryan and Yoko came over later to bring a gift and show how big baby Aka has gotten.  He is already two months old.  They gave Collin a Cars themed chair which he really likes and even fell asleep in later that evening.  Must have been really comfortable. 

I think Collin had a fantastic birthday and weekend.  Hope he is ready for school this week and no naps.  I hope we are too.....for at least the no nap part.  :)

Check out all of these presents and the happy birthday boy waiting to open them

Great that there was a lot of tissue paper because it was faster for him to open and get to the "prize".  He actually needed help opening a wrapped present.  My things have changed!

Poor kid did not even have a chance to turn off his new flashlight before he passed out in his new chair on his new pillow case.