Jonah's 4th Birthday Party

Jonah's birthday party this year was great. Since he has been having some social anxiety issues these past couple of months, we decided to keep his party much smaller than the usual crowd to keep him from getting overwhelmed. When people started arriving, Jonah didnt want to come out of his room. I figured it would be another year where we were opening his gifts, but alas he surprised us all by slowly inching out of his room (with a little help from Dad) to say hello to his birthday guests. He quickly got happy and the party began. It was great! I was so excited to see Jonah opening his own presents, and even understanding that he needed to blow out his birthday candles. He put forth an awesome effort. Unfortuantely, he doesnt know how to blow, but he can suck air in. So as he was perched in front of that little candles flame sucking the air in with all his might, the other kids helped blow the candles out. Jonah's favorite book is Dr Seuss' Fox in Socks, so he was pretty excited to see Mr Fox on his birthday cake (yes, i made the cake--can i brag about that? hehe) Jonah loved all of his presents. He was happy to be able to open a present under his new lightning mcqueen towel, stand on his new scooter, and show everyone his little wooden horse. But the "biggest hit" gift of the night had to be Jonahs new goldfish, who's name happens to be Dorothy. Anyone who knows Jonah knows that he loves Elmo's pet fish Dorothy. Thank heavens Uncle Shaggy (Skyler) was cool enough to use this knowledge wisely and purchase an exact look alike Dorothy for Jonah's birthday. And yes, the fish is still alive. Each day Jonah gives Dorothy (well, the fishbowl) a kiss. Pretty darn cute.
Happy Birthday Jonah--In a week (since his real birthday isnt until April 9th)! And thank you everyone for coming and making it a great birthday for our squishy!

...and for those of you who are going to ask me why we celebrated Jonah's bday so early; it was so Aunt Allison, Uncle Scott, and cousins Abe, and Henry could be there. They are sadly moving to Seattle in a couple of days. We will miss them so.