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Kai is 5!


Kai-guy turned 5 today! I honestly was not planning on posting anything tonight. I don’t have a lot of words to share and only a few snaps that we took on my phone. But i just couldn’t go to bed without jotting down a few words about Kai because I am just feeling an overwhelming love and thankfulness for him tonight.

 
The past few days (well, if we’re being honest here—it would be months) have been super hard. The internet can be a deceiving place. I don’t like to get on the internet and complain. I like the pictures that I post to show the happy times. Who honestly wants to see pictures of my kids disobeying or me lying down on the couch multiple times a day? Fatigue and stomach pain have really interfered with my life lately. And over the past few days, I haven’t been able to do much more than take care of our basic needs and try to keep the house somewhat picked up. 
 
That can be discouraging. Add in a million other things and I start to feel like a failure of a wife and a mother. Today, when I got out of bed, I so badly wanted to feel well and be able to smile REAL smiles at my little birthday boy. I prayed that I would be able to feel joy and be able to express how much I love him through my words and my actions. And really, I didn’t get off to much of a good start. 
 
The clock was ticking down and I had yet to feel like I was making this birthday special for him. I was feeling like my “cool mom points” were rapidly being taken away. But throughout the day, Kai would just giggle with excitement because it was his birthday, and he would always follow up those giggles with a big hug for me and a big “I love you, mommy!” 
 
The more hugs I got, the more joy I felt. This continued on through the night as we took him to (the oh so fancy) McDonald’s for his special birthday meal. (You can get away with simple stuff like that when you don’t ever go out to eat. A Happy Meal to my kids is like you’re buying them an iPad–haha) By the end of the night, all I could think about was how he was the one giving the gift instead of receiving it. He was making it a special day for me instead of me making it special for him. He fills me with so much thankfulness. My heart was seriously aching with love for him as I replayed each smile and hug throughout the night.
 
I know it probably doesn’t sound like much to anyone else, but God answered my prayer for joy this morning through our sweet 5 year old. And I am blessed to have a child (well, 4 of them so far) who don’t expect anything grand for their birthdays. Just showing them our love is all that they desire. 
 
So, anyway, that was kind of rambling and I have no clue if it made sense. But my heart was just pouring with the love I have for my son and I just wanted to share so I can look back to this post and be reminded how blessed I am by all 4 of my children. 
 
mom and birthday boy

 

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dad and son
So Happy Birthday Kai! We love you to the Death Star and back 🙂
 
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they say it’s your birthday


Our little Kai guy turned 4 last week! We did a little celebrating last Monday with our Tuckahoe friends. Kai requested an ice cream cake and Star Wars cake. The cake was anything but fancy. I just stuck some of their Star Wars toys (I washed them, don’t worry) into the cake. Pretty lame. But this kid was so giggly and excited for his special cake!
 
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We had plans to go to Culver’s to celebrate on his actual birthday. But to make this birthday more memorable, he and I got strep throat instead. I debated all day whether or not we should go get tested. The only reason I even went was because Don had just had it. So we headed to Walgreens and were both diagnosed with strep throat. Bummer! Then we went to Target to get some ibuprofen for my poor little guy. As we were about to head inside, the tornado sirens started going off. I knew I would rather be inside Target than driving around in the dark with tornadoes, so we ran inside and hung out until the sirens were done. Let’s just say that I probably won’t forget his 4th birthday…at least for a few years.
 
Thankfully, once we had the antibiotics in our system, we started feeling better pretty quickly. I had gotten Kai a happy meal during our night out, but he fell asleep before he even got to eat it. I’m pretty sure this was the first happy meal he’s ever gotten. It made his day when he got to have it the next day for lunch.
 
birthday meal
 
If I had to describe Kai, I would use words like: silly, random, giggly, cheerful, crazy, lovable, sweet, hyper. He is always saying and doing silly things. And has the craziest dance moves. He’s been a dancer since he was a baby.
I did a little interview with him like I did last year. Quite a few answers were the same this year.
 
Age: 4
Favorite color: Blue
Favorite animal: pig
Favorite song: Amazing Grace
Favorite toy: his new Iron Man toy
Favorite game: Mystery Mansion
Favorite food: chicken and hot dogs
Favorite drink: milk
Favorite dessert: Star Wars cake
Favorite thing to do with mommy: play with Miss
Favorite thing to do with daddy: play Sonic
Favorite thing to do with Liam: play Toejam and Earl
Favorite thing to do with Kingston: watch him be good
Favorite thing to do with Evangeline: cuddle
Best friend: Evangeline
What he wants for birthday dinner: Stromboli
Favorite movie: Star Wars
Favorite restaurant: “Starvation Army” (Me: “Kai, that’s not a place to eat. And it’s called ‘SALVATION army.'”) Kai: “Oh. Then Culver’s.”
Favorite instrument: guitar
What do you want to do when you grow up: “I wanna be a pillow.” He also answered: gardener
Favorite superheroes: Superman
 
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little boy playing with toys

 

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little friends

 

boy eating ice cream

I love to look back and see the ways he’s changed over the past year. The interview questions may not be that exciting to anyone else, but posts like this make me thankful that I started blogging. It’s special to me to be able to watch them grow through this blog.
Kai is so special to us! We sure do love him!

P.S. We made up for our cancelled trip to Culver’s. 

P.P.S. Salted caramel is an amazing topping. I could probably eat spoonfuls of it.