He's been talking about this birthday FOREVER and was always inviting kids to his birthday party. I had to tell someone in November that Joels birthday wasn't for a long long time.
I always knew if he had a good time playing with someone because he would tell me later that "so and so was invited to my birthday party" He would also uninvite us when he was upset at us. Colin told him once he couldn't uninvite mom to his birthday party because mom was the one who planned it! but that didn't stop Joel from trying to uninvite me at times.
He has also been counting down for weeks. 20 days, then 15 days then 8 days then it was "6 days because 2 days ago it was 8 days mommy" and so on. Each morning he would wake up and first say how many days left until his birthday. And he was always right.
Sarah spent the 4th of July weekend with us so my parents came over for dinner one night and we celebrated Joel.
This morning we tried to take him out for breakfast but he just wanted me to make him eggs and to play with his new toys. He's not a big breakfast person.
You would think for the boy who had been talking about his birthday party for months that we would be more on top of planning his birthday party but it all came together last minute. I tried to talk him into the Kona Ice Truck again but he wanted a pool party like Colin and when your birthday is in July a pool party it is. And to me it was the perfect pool party weather.
Brent was in high demand today. I'm pretty sure he had more fun than the kids!
Happy Birthday Joel! We love you and cant imagine life without you.
You try so hard to keep up with Colin and for the most part you do in every way. Its hard to imagine you are only just turning 5 sometimes because you act much older.
You don't like big crowds and get nervous in new situations. You rub my pretty ear less and less and that makes me sad a little bit. But once you conquer your fear you are unstoppable. You were so afraid of the deep end that even in the shallow end for swim practice you'd rub your coach's pretty ear sometimes. Then after you jumped in the deep end once you now spend most of the pool time in the deep end where you can't touch. Its fun to watch you and Colin swim around and play together in the pool. Same thing with VBS this week - you didnt want to go in at all but once you realized it wasn't so bad you've loved it. And I hope the same thing happens with school this year.
You are still so strong willed and determined which makes life hard at times but I hope that you never lose that and use those for good as you grow up.
You are our snuggliest kid still and we are just soaking it up since Colin doesn't snuggle very often with us. You like to have a snuggle buddy to fall asleep next to and it starts out with daddy putting you to bed and then somehow you end up in our bed every night RIGHT NeXT to me. You don't understand personal space when it comes to being snuggle buddies.
You still love to make us laugh and its fun to watch you and Colin interact. You and Colin are best friends but its Norah who is your little shadow. You are usually very patient with norah who tries to boss you around.
You dont like writing but love to sound out words. Especially figure out the silly ones. Like BUTTER - "mom did you know that butter has the word BUTT in it!" things that I never knew or though of before.
You still can't poop and had us really worried a few weeks ago when you went 2 weeks without popping and no amount of medicine or suppositories were working. We are still working on that.
You are very thoughtful and even today after getting some birthday money was planning on using it to buy a friend some legos. Another friend has a feather collection so you've been collecting feathers to help him add to it.
We have VBS every night this week and I told our pastor it was Joel's birthday so somehow he spread the word and they sang Joel happy birthday everywhere he went. He doesn't like attention on him but he had the cutest expression on his face when my class sang to him. He told me in the car that "they sang me happy birthday 4 times and I didn't like it!" But it made his birthday special and Colin told him that he never had that many happy birthdays sung to him in a day and Joel then thought it was pretty cool.
We love you Joel and I hope this day is everything you've been wanting it to be for the past few months.
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