Baby Steps Through Motherhood

It seems that is what I am always trying to do. I am not very good at it but I just have to say that it is good enough.

Anyhow, I was looking at my list of things I still needed to blog about and though it is 2 months past I thought I should write about Preston’s 4th birthday for memories sake.
This was the first year he thought he needed a real party and invite friends. We didn’t want to make it a huge deal since he was only turning 4 so we still did our normal family party on a Saturday with a Transformer cake and spaghetti. Josh had convinced he wanted a Transformer party although he has never seen the show or really played with them…so Transformers cake it was. We have nearly 15 kids with just family so it doesn’t leave much room for friends too. He has a nice celebration was very excited about it being his birthday.

I decided to plan a trip to the cider mill and since he wanted a party I told him it was his party. We hadn’t gone there yet this fall so it worked out perfect. I let some of the moms and dad know that we were planning it and calling it his party for his sake and that I would get cider doughnuts for everyone. To our surprise, his friends blessed him with some cards and some gifts so he was super excited. I think he may have the love language of gifts….not real sure but he is constantly wanting to make special pictures for everyone and take them special treats. Anyhow, we all made it to the cider mill, watched a huge dump truck dump a ton of apples, watched them go up the “elevator” and get smooshed into cider. The kids loved going there and it was a perfect day weather wise. We then had doughnuts and I was so excited that they had the still very yummy but day old doughnuts for $3 a dozen. That was a super bonus. So, I bought 2 dozen and let them chow down. Preston would have ate lots but I cute him off at 3 I think. It was his birthday afterall.

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