It's happened! We have two five year olds in our house! (It is weird.) I think this should count as me putting in 10 years of work. Twins are tough, yo. Anywho, they had an AWESOME birthday! They made cool birthday crowns at school, brought home blue playdough, and shot off rockets in class that day. This was obviously a little overwhelming because as soon as I got there to pick them up Nick started crying. Apparently they had said they would play with the playdough and then got too busy (they should know by now that you can't make a promise and not deliver with little kids, they NEVER forget...especially about playdough) and decided not to get it out that day. He was inconsolable until we got home where we gave him a cupcake! Yay! Liam and I made cupcakes and he made them a card. It was adorable.
They just woke up...and they were five!
Nicholas is crying and trying to smile.
That afternoon we went to the duck pond and we had lots of fun and adventures.
They had a check up on Friday. Nick was 44lbs and 45.5 inches tall! (He is a giant.) Eric was 46lbs and 43.5 inches tall. (He is almost a giant!) They had to do some blood tests for school, they couldn't get Nick's vein, but he was a trooper and let them stick him 2 times and didn't cry until after they were already done, Eric totally surprised me and held perfectly still and watched the needle go in and said, "Wow! That didn't even hurt!" For those who know the emotions of that child you know that was like...a miracle.
We had the party on Saturday and we went all out his year with our theme
of Curious George (which was hard to nail down, little kids are very
indecisive) and for the first time in a while we did not make the cake.
The decorations turned out totally cute though and the food was good.
The big gift this year was bikes. FINALLY, I have been wanting to get
them bikes for forever! This afternoon they got a little more practice
in and Eric has especially taken to it. Nick is the more
nervous/cautious of the two and has been having the more difficult
experience. He wrecked today and scraped up his knee, and I was worried
because he dramatically stated, "I don't want to ever ride a bike NEVER
AGAIN!" With big tears rolling down his face. Luckily though, he later
did come back outside and try again for a little bit. Anyway, it was a
good weekend and birthday, yeah!
Uncle Thayne brought his drums with him...it was a pretty big highlight as you might imagine.
I can't believe they are so big! (I know everybody says that, but seriously, I have 5 year olds! Weird!)
