Antonio turns 5.

Wait, what?

FIVE?!?!

I've never been good at math, in fact I usually passed my math classes with a "C", "C+" if I was lucky. So I could be wrong here but I'm pretty sure he really is 5.

I'm not really sure how it happened but here we are at 5. I took the day off for Antonio's birthday with it in mind that we would have an "Antonio day" where he got to pick where we went and what we did. Turns out I had some party prep to finish up so I felt bad, like he got a little jipped on his day. We did get up and got out for a donut for breakfast. He got to pick out which one he wanted, he picked a chocolate bar and ate it right up. He then proceeded to ask if he could have a bit of my apple fritter. After the errands we did, he chose to go to the new spray park in town. It was hot so I was good with that. We spent a couple hours there and came home just in time for lunch and a snooze. He got to pick what we had for dinner, he picked pizza of course. After we ate we called Albert's family to FaceTime for cake and presents. It was great. Singing happy birthday with two other people on two separate FaceTime calls is hilarious. Regardless, Antonio loved it. He was happy. He said, " I am so happy Mama."

Can't beat that.

 The audience 

 Thinking of a good wish

Then Elise sang, "Everything is Awesome".

Today was his birthday party day; he had requested a purple party. He was up at 6:30 ready to go. After breakfast he asked, "Are my friends going to be here soon?", he was a bit excited. :)  Finally 11am came along and everyone started to show up for the party, Antonio could hardly believe it was finally time. I chose to have a smaller, immediate family party this year instead of the friends/family party and I think I prefer it. It was nice to be able to "enjoy' the party more. Antonio was hoping to have some of his friends too but by the time his cousins showed up he forgot all about it. We were lucky enough to have Ms. Rosemary come by for long enough to finish watching Antonio open gifts and have a cupcake. Antonio was happy to see her; he loves her as do we.

The kids had fun. Everyone (kids) got a water shooter to take home and within 10m, they were squirting each other with water. The kids were wet but happy. Poor Grassy came trotting over to the fence and got a rude awakening; 4 boys and a girl all shooting her with water through the fence slats.

Even Grandpa joined in the fun.

We had hot dogs, watermelon, red grapes, chips and salsa, and grape juice. Finished off with a purple #5 cupcake cake.

Antonio got so many great gifts for his birthday. After each one he said, "Its just what I wanted!" and indeed, he had said he wanted it. Happily, the heat wasn't to bad and us adults were able to stay in the shade while the kids stayed cool enough by soaking each other. Once the last people left Antonio was very sad. He told me, "I don't want them to go..."; he's never been good with goodbye's. After helping us clean up, he went through all his gifts again, opening each one to finally get a better look. He was still content. We even played a very quick round of golf in the living room, something that will later be an outside toy only. 

Antonio is the best little boy I could ask for. I am one lucky Mama and he is one lucky kid to have so many people who love him. Technically five years in the book for him (& us). We are looking forward to what his 6th year brings. New friends, Kindergarten and more.