Happy 4th Birthday!!!

Four years ago today, the happiest little boy on the block was born! Oh and Brian's feet were really hurting from all the standing he had to do at the hospital. (This is a running joke between us because Brian wore his docksiders hour after hour while Chris took his sweet time coming into the world. I, on the other hand...). We have been celebrating Christopher's 4th birthday today in style. It started out with an early gift opening session before breakfast. Over the weekend, we watched "Happy Feet 2" and Chris absolutely loved it. In fact, we'll be watching it again this afternoon with Grammy! Part of our gift to buds was the little penguin from the movie, who happens to be named "Erik" (spelled incorrectly of course, right Grandpa?). Chris has been impersonating Erik all week and today he got to take his new little friend all over with him! Here was part of the gift opening...

He also received a few other penguin figures from the movie and our big gift to him will be a night at Great Wolf Lodge, which we will be doing in a couple weeks. Chris had camp at Pembroke today and I was actually glad because normally, he won't be in school on his birthday. They sang to him (twice!) and his teacher helped him make the crown you see in the first picture. (I can't tell you enough how awesome this week of camp has been for Chris! I am really impressed, in particular with his teacher.). At the end of the morning, Daddy came with me to pick up Chris and see his classroom. Then we headed to SPIN Pizza, Christopher's restaurant of choice! Here are my boys before their meal...

Whenever we celebrate Christopher's birthday, I like to go back through our old pictures and remember what he looked like as a little baby. Here are a few of my favorites from the early days...

There are thousands to choose from but these just remind me of how little he was. Well, I guess he was never really "little" but relative to now he sure was! Happy birthday to our sweet boy! Look out boy, you just crossed the line into Mommy's area of expertise--age 4!!!