FOUR!

 

This little monkey turned four yesterday.

These are the faces I get when I ask him to smile for the camera.

I took these pictures on Friday when we were enjoying the mid-70 weather.

For his birthday, we woke up to snow.

Since it was conference Sunday we got to all be home and have a lazy morning.

Perfect!

Kimi helped me make birthday muffins.

We discovered that Ian has a hard time blowing out candles.

It went out in the end.

He also took advantage of not for the evening when Daddy usually gets home to open all his presents.

His comments while unwrapping were the best part for me.

Upon unwrapping a frisbee:

“A Frisbee! If I ever get a dog I’m going to name him Chewy!”

He’s been wearing a little plaid fishing hat to be Indiana Jones lately so I was excited to buy him a “real” Indy hat.

Upon unwrapping his hat:

“Now I have two Indiana Jones hats!”

It was also a perfect day for a birthday because we got to go spend lots of time at Grandma and Grandpa C.’s house.

When Ian went to give his Great Grandpa a hug he did his limp noodle pose, which is hard to hug, believe me.

Then Ian said, “That was a great hug.”

 

The cake had a few more than four candles on it so I think he may have been getting nervous.

Luckily, he had two aunts with April birthdays to help him out.

I forgot to actually take the picture while he was blowing out the candles, so we did a little re-enactment.

If sheer will could just put out the fire, it would have gone right out.

 

So that’s the story of Ian turning four.

I declare that he may now stop growing up, because I want to keep this little boy forever.