My FIVE Year Old

Makoy turned five on the 13th of February. His actual Birthday was a total downer. He was throwing up and I was flat in bed, so there was no celebrating. He opened the presents we got him and then we all laid in bed. Exciting, I know. His Birthday party was rescheduled for the following weekend, the 19th. We had a ton of fun with family and friends. He wanted a fireman themed party. He had a fire truck pinata and other fireman decor. He had a lot of fun and made up for his lousy actual Birthday. I can't believe my little boy is FIVE years old! The time has honestly gone by so incredibly fast. He amazes me every day with how smart he is. He showed me what unconditional love is and made me a mom. We have had five fantastic years with him and I am so grateful for him. I wanted to remember some of the things he is doing at this age and things he likes to do. Warning...there is a lot of reading and pictures. I get a little camera happy sometimes.

He loves to dance. He can stand on his head like this forever, spin around, do all sorts of stuff. He says he wants to be a break dancer when he grows up.


He loves to cook


He did these by himself


He loves to take pictures, mainly of himself as seen below =)


He loves his sister


He loves to clean. Gross picture with the garbage but oh well. He's glaring but really does love it


He loves preschool. This is a robot he made there-so cute.


Here are some other things about my sweet boy

-He loves to be read to. We try to read books every night, but it doesn't always happen.
-He loves to tell knock knock jokes. He tells them all day sometimes. He doesn't quite get the concept of them which is even funnier. Here's one of my faves he tells. "Knock knock...who's there? Banana....banana who? Banana sandwich. Silly kid.
-He loves music. He can sing on key and remember a song after hearing it once or twice. That is how he has learned a lot of his school stuff, putting it to music. He also loves to make up songs.
-His favorite color is blue and red, it's a tie.
-His favorite food is string cheese. Does that count as a food?
-He weighs 37 lbs and is 42 inches tall.
-He is so smart! He can write and recognize all letters in the alphabet. He can write his first and last name. If you tell him a word, he can tell you what it starts with. He can count to 70 or 80 depending on what he feels like that day.....sometimes 100
-He can be very shy and has my curse....blushing. Poor kid

Here he is on his Birthday, poor boy.


Opening presents in bed


His favorite gift, the old school Nintendo. He is already hooked.


Birthday decor


This was my second cake. Apparently the fireman cake pan was more of a decoration. It stuck no matter what we did.


The improvised cake. I ran to the store 2 hrs before the party and he just had a regular, plain ole shaped cake. He was happy though since it was rainbow chip frosting. Plus he loved the candles.


Birthday boy


Makoy and his besty, Livvie. He adores her and she is such a sweetie.


More of Makoy and Livvie


Opening gifts


I get this face a lot- he was sick of posing for me.


Emma and Livvie checking out the gifts


I'm not sure what Emma and Makoy were so bummed about


My mom started a food fight with our friend Isaac. He put frosting in her hair-he won.


This pinata said it was a pull string when I bought it- lies. The kids all took a turn kicking it or whatever they felt. Are we redneck? Maybe so =) We had to improvise


Pinata waterfall


Catching the goodies