Happy Birthday Drew!

Well, it's party time again.  Turning 4 is a big deal.  First of all we welcomed the day watching the snow fall.  Drew loves the snow and it looks so beautiful, especially from inside a cozy home.  Then we had a lazy morning getting ready for the day.  Mark and I were going to take Drew out for lunch and then do a little birthday shopping, but since the snow was coming down hard, we decided to leave a little earlier and do the shopping first.

Drew is in the tractor club at John Deere, which entitled him to an $8.00 gift certificate there for his birthday.  He got very excited and walked away with a trailer (for a semi) and a dump truck!  Then we went to a dollar store.  No birthday would be complete without hellium balloons!  :)  He got one with a loader on it, that he had checked out a couple of weeks ago!  Then we headed out to Swiss Chalet.  He is also in their birthday Club and so he got a gift certificate for one meal.  Mark and I had a nice meal.  As it turns out, Drew was too excited to eat his meal so didn't eat much at all!  Good thing his meal was free!  

Then we headed home.  A little later we let Drew open his gift from us and one from his Nana and Grandpa.  His Nana and Grandpa are on holidays now, but sent his gift a little early.  He opened his gift from us first, a motorized Thomas The Train set.  He loves it!  Jackpot!  The gift from Nana and Grandpa was a fish tank kit.  He loved it too!  We set it up today, so it has time to normalize before we get the fish.  Friday is Fish Day!  We had to write it on his calender, so he new the plan.  At 4, waiting can be hard!  Since then we've had some interesting conversations:  we need to leave the fish IN the fish tank, we need to leave the fish tank where it is and not move it from room to room, even if we want to show the fish some of our toys, this is not a fish for Drew and Daddy to fish with the fishing rod; it is a pet like Bailey.  Having a fish could be an interesting experience!  

For supper we had waffles, which he enjoyed and ate nicely.  A treat for us!  The rest of the evening he was content to play with his new train set, taking a quick break every once in a while to check out the fish tank :)

Now he can't wait for his party with the family.  We also had to write it down on his calendar.  I think the next couple of days will be very "exkiting"!  Stay tuned for . . . the rest of the story!