Birthday Celebration at School

Collin did not wake up any more excited today than any other morning.  He lazily walked over to the couch and laid down on it waiting for breakfast.  Once we finally got him dressed and out the door, he was then excited.  On the way there, he looked at all of the pictures on the posters I put together for this morning's celebration.  I did one for each year that has passed.  The pictures or words were to represent the milestones or events that had happened to him that year.  He was really interested in the picture where he had his cast on his leg. He even commented on his red eyes in the picture (the "red eye" on the camera I had before did not work at all).  He was excited about showing these to his friends at school.

We arrive and find out that his teacher is sick.  At first, we did not think he was going to have a celebration.  He knew this and looked a little sad about it.  Ms Arlena put his birthday crown on his head to distract him from Daddy trying to find another teacher that could do the celebration for us.  He found someone.  Thanks Daddy!!!  You are awesome!! 

The celebration started with the teacher talking about each year of his life and what he did during that year.  She used a cheat sheet I made but did great at improvising since she did not know Collin that well.  After she talked about each year, Collin walked around the circle with a globe in his hands to represent that a year had gone by.  After doing this two more times, it was time to sing Happy Birthday to him.  Unlike last year, he was not shy when the class started to sing.  He stood there and listened.  Then he blew his candle out.  Next, he got to pick friends to sit with him to have a birthday snack.  He is supposed to eventually pick everyone in the class.  However, he only picked two people...and girls.  He picked Ellie first and then Mila.  We brought his some of his favorite snacks to share which are Nilla wafers and gummy candy.  The kids seemed to really like the snack and most acted like they had not had these before.

Walking the globe around the room

Smart boy sitting with Mila and Ellie

After snack was over, the kids gathered around the posters to look at them more.  This was hilarious listening to them make comments about the pictures:

• "Why do you have red eyes in that picture?"
• "What is that on your leg?"
• "You have make up on in this picture"  It was the one when he was first born.  They put some shiny stuff around his eyes.  Someone else commented that "babies don't wear make up"
• "Look, you are in the pool"
• "Spiderman!"
• "I like Mickey Mouse too"

The kids were so excited about the poster that they were pushing to get closer and closer which pushed Collin over into the posters a few times.  I could tell on his face that he was done and wanted to get out of the crowd.

Daddy had lunch with him later that day.  Collin was excited about not napping after lunch like he usually does.  Right now, he is not acting as tired as I thought he might be after not taking a nap all day.  Let's see how tonight goes.