How did he get so grown up?
Each day I’m amazed! Rusty is very smart and very sweet. He has enjoyed reading chapter books and plugs away at them until he finishes. He celebrates! He counts down to holidays and especially “Groundhog’s Day” (his way of not saying his birthday). Rusty has a stillness about him that is so different from his brothers – but don’t underestimate him! He’s a super fast runner and drives Billy crazy when he beats him in a race!
Rusty loves legos and following a set of instructions or a manual. He keeps Kevin on track during projects by saying “Now you are on step 7 …” He still loves puzzles and flies through them with ease. He is a chatterbox in the car, especially on one-on-one trips with his Momma! Boy, that boy can talk!
He loves dinosaurs and discovering bones. He wanted a dinosaur shaped cake for his birthday, but I wasn’t feeling that. Instead he got a fossil cake and he was perfectly delighted!
This boy LOVES his birthday! His teacher told me that she hadn’t seen him so smiley all year long as he was on his birthday!
Bobby may have confiscated every single present Rusty opened by saying, “Mine!” and not letting go. Rusty was so patient about it and just waited for Bobby to get tired of the toy before swiping it back!
This is the year of birthday parties (I’m SO not birthday-party-mom! This is a HUGE stretch for me, but I am determined). Since it is too cold to do a backyard party and our house isn’t really designed for a dozen kids, I opted for the old standby – Chuck E. Cheese!
If possible, Rusty was even more excited about his birthday party than his actual birthday! We did it on a Friday night and invited one other family as well as 5 other friends. We had 14 kids and 4 adults in our group!
The boys loved every minute! Pizza! Games! Rides! Friends! Cupcakes! They were all in heaven!
And they all mingled really well! Tommy even got to play with his friend Von – Von’s brother Vance is Rusty’s friend and his whole family came to hang out while we partied, so Von joined in with us! (That’s Vance with Tommy laughing hysterically at this ride/game)
The presents were perfect – dinosaurs, legos, candy – Rusty was truly spoiled!
For not being “birthday party mom,” I think I did alright!
Not everyone made it into this picture with Chuck E. Cheese, but we had Hyrum, Eli, Mason, Lilly, Tucker, Vance, Gage, Landon, Jake, Ricky, Billy, Tommy, Bobby, and Rusty!
Brothers having birthday parties is pretty cool!
Rusty can’t wait to come back to the big Cheese someday!
Happy Birthday, my Rusty! I’m so glad it was a great day – I love seeing you smile!
