THE BOY TURNS 5!!!

I can't believe we have a five year old!! This kid has been looking forward to turning 5 for about 5 years now. He thinks he's so grown up and big now! When we walked in to get him in the morning on his birthday he started jumping up and down on his bed saying, "LOOK!! I can jump higher now!!!" He then jumped off his bed and ran across the apartment yelling, "LOOK!! I CAN EVEN RUN FASTER NOW!!"




Knowing he couldn't wait until cake later on in the day, we let him open his presents from us in the morning. He was SO excited to see everything decorated for him! Oh, and his breakfast of choice for his birthday? A poptart! Simple yet delicious. From us he got a few lego sets, some soccer things, a movie and some other little things he'd been asking for.





We then headed out to Pelly's for some miniature golf (including Danielle who spent the day with us, too). The kids had never been and were VERY excited to play!! I'm pretty sure they had no idea what it was but that it did involve golf balls and golf clubs. We tried the first few holes to play for real, but it just kind of ended up being a free-for-all with Max running ahead and whacking his ball everywhere and Lia running after everyone else's ball after they hit it once and dropping it in the hole for them.



They all had fun though which was the most important!






And Max was the only one to score a legit hole-in-one!! GO Max!!



We then headed to Wahoo's for lunch for the adults. The kids got Happy Meals from McDonald's -- Max's choice. He wanted some kind of lunch with a "really cool toy!"

After that we dropped Lia and Tyler off at home for naps and Danielle and I surprised Max by taking him to see the new Smurfs movie at the theater. He was SOOO excited!! Although, he ended up not really enjoying the movie all that much. He thought it was kind of "weird and funny looking." Oh well! I have to agree that it was kind of lame. I think the MASSIVE amounts of popcorn he ate made up for it.

After the movie we came back for some birthday cake and a few more presents. Max picked out this delicious oreo cookie ice cream cake.





My mom got him a seriously cute, um, I mean awesome (yes, I got yelled at by said 5 year old for saying it was cute) Batman backpack from PBKids. And Danielle got him some Transformers gear for school, too. Grammie and Papa got Max a super cool soccer ball and also paid for his soccer registration so that he can play on a REAL soccer team this fall!! He's beyond excited. Grandpa and Margaret got him some soccer cleats and socks and some soccer shorts, too. He's totally set now!






Max kept saying it was the best birthday ever. I tried really hard to make it fun for him! We are so loving our 5 year old Max. He's the BEST!!