Four!

Over the weekend, Quentin turned 4. FOUR! I cannot believe it. I feel like it was yesterday that I brought home my tiny little preemie. He’s turned into quite the little character. We love you so much Quentin, Happy 4th Birthday buddy!

Quentin’s 3rd Birthday

  

Quentin turned 3 on Saturday and we threw him a party on his actual birthday. I can’t believe my baby is 3 already. Time surely flies by way too quickly. He had a fun party and got spoiled by family & friends. What a lucky 3 year old!

SIX

Sean the day he was born, December 28th, 2006.
He was born at 4:44 am, 5 lbs 5 oz.

On his first birthday, in 2007.

His 2nd birthday, in 2008.

His 3rd birthday in 2009.

His 4th birthday in 2010.

On his 5th birthday in 2011.

Last week at his Kindergarten Holiday PJ Party. I volunteered at the party and got to go to his school in my pjs too. It was a lot of fun. SIX! I can’t believe he’s 6 already. I hope he has a fantastic birthday and all his dreams come true.

TWO

Time escaped from me this past month. I have been meaning to post this, and then realized that someone else’s birthday was coming up (tomorrow) and I thought now would be a good time to recap Quentin’s 2nd birthday, as I do with my boys.

Quentin was born a month early, surprising us at the end of November 2010.

Here’s Quentin on his 1st birthday.

On his 2nd birthday.

My silly Quentin. He’s so funny. He knows he’s funny. He brightens our life even though he tornadoes any room he passes through. But he’s so cute, you can’t get mad at him. Ahhh, the age of 2. Hopefully we’ll pass quickly pass through the terrible two’s quickly. This picture is one of my new favourites. 

Quentin’s Second

On Friday, my baby turned 2. TWO! He’s no longer a baby and that saddens me a bit, the fact that the baby stage is over.

Over the weekend we threw a party for him and invited some family and some of his daycare friends came too. It was a lot of fun.

Quentin may not say a lot (his vocabulary consists of 16 words), but he’s got quite the personality and he seems to get what he wants. He has me wrapped around his little finger and he’s my baby, so I don’t mind that one bit.

Birthday weekend

Mackenzie and I celebrated our birthdays this weekend. On Saturday, I turned 31 and today, Mackenzie turned 4. The weekend was filled with soccer (for Mack), baseball (for Sean), a bridal shower (I attended), the boys all slept out last night (Sean & Mack at a friends house, and Quentin slept at my parents house), and Jamie took me out for dinner. This morning we picked up the boys, had lunch at my in-laws house, spent the afternoon in my parents pool & had dinner at my parents house tonight. A non-stop fun filled weekend. We both had a fantastic birthday. I can’t believe my Mackenzie is 4! I feel like he was just born yesterday, breaking my water on my 27th birthday. Hope you had a fantastic birthday Mackenzie, we love you!

ps - Happy Father's Day to all the daddies out there!

Five

Sean the day he was born, December 28th, 2006.
He was born at 4:44 am, 5 lbs 5 oz.

On his first birthday, in 2007.

His 2nd birthday, in 2008.

His 3rd birthday in 2009.

His 4th birthday in 2010.

And this morning on his 5th birthday.

He got spoiled with some puzzles (3d Spongebob, a Star Wars & a Transformers puzzle that each came with an action figure too), 3 different sets of Thomas the Train Tracks (which we spent all morning putting together an entire huge track in my bedroom (will post about that soon, it was quite awesome!) and a Martin Brodeur Team Canada goalie figurine (which is his fave part of his present he says).

I cannot believe my first born is five today. FIVE! Such a big number. I still feel like I just brought him home from the hospital yesterday. (Let alone 2 more boys after him). He had a party with some friends a few weeks back, and a handful of those friends actually slept over. He had a blast! Sean is a smart, energetic, amazing person, and I am so glad that he is my son. Mommy & daddy love you! xo

Quentin’s 1st Birthday

Quentin is one today.
He was born a year ago, at 10:27 am.
Boy, does time fly. I feel like just yesterday he was born.

Quentin's had a fab day. Morning music class, visiting a friend with a new baby, lunch with his 2 best buddies, and an afternoon nap. Not sure what this evening holds, but it'll be a quiet dinner with just us.

Over the weekend we had a party for him with all of his friends. We had a lot of fun.

I can't believe my baby is one. My last baby. It's so upsetting, really, while it's amazing to watch him grow at the same time. No more first birthdays in our house. While I am glad that the whole party planning is over for now (besides Sean's small birthday party next month with a few of his friends), it's just all bittersweet.

HAPPY 1st BIRTHDAY QUENTIN! We love you!! xoxo

Party Number 1

Sunday we had the first celebration for Quentin's birthday. We celebrated with family. We celebrated early, because my grandmother goes to Florida for the winter. Normally she'd be gone already, but agreed to stay a few more days if Quentin's birthday party was early. So that she could be there, we made it 2 (and a bit) weeks early. (Quentin sported the same vest Sean did for his 1st birthday! Mack's birthday is in June, and it was way too hot for him to wear the same thing to his birthday, and Mackenzie was still in 9 month clothing at his 1st birthday, where this vest is 12-18 month size). It was a bit big, but worked nonetheless.

Quentin had a great time!

As did his brothers & cousin.

I changed Quentin before cake. Especially since my step-mother-in-law made him his very own cake (for him to dig into).

(I love this picture!) (And unfortunately we didn't get a single picture of the 5 of us that came out. We'll have to try again at party #2, with friends, which is coming up later this month).

Quentin actually tried to grab the flame! He was so fascinated by it!

And then got to dig into his very own chocolate cake.

Oh, he had a field day!

I think we have another chocoholic on our hands.

Quentin got spoiled by his family.
He is truly blessed (as are all my boys).

The look on his face when opening gifts, was truly priceless.

How We Spent Father’s Day

It's been super busy around here, not stopping for a second! I am trying to catch up on what's been going on around here, so this is how we spent father's day:

After a Bris in the morning, we picked up the kids who slept over at my parent house the night before, a nice birthday gift if I do say so myself. I brought the kids back home and they gave Jamie their gifts:

Quentin got daddy some new polo shirts, Mack got him new mugs to take coffee to work and Sean got him some Star Wars Figurines. Jamie was very pleased.

Then we headed to the convenience store around the corner for some slushies.

And we stopped at the park on the way home for a bit.

After the park & slushies Jamie wanted to relax on the couch & watch golf, so I took the kids (on the beautiful Sunday afternoon) to my parents house to go for a dip in the pool. Mackenzie received this awesome Cars Pool toy for his birthday and wouldn't get off of it in the pool the entire time he was in.

Sean showed us he has been working on his front float.

And Quentin vegged in the pool in his float. He likes the water & had an entire conversation with his new duck friends.

Sean is seriously my brave, fearless little fish. He was jumping off the diving board with no floats, and then swam across the deep end to whomever was waiting for him (my brother, father or myself). I couldn't believe it. Fearless! So proud of him. He even let my dad throw him up into the air a few times.

Before dinner, Jamie arrived and so did my in-laws. We all had dinner, and then I was surprised with my birthday gift from my family. It's from Jamie & the kids, as well as my parents and my siblings. Jamie had given me a card on my actual birthday telling me that my present was in 3. First was a gift card to the book store (one of these) and then he said the 2nd part was a surprise (see below) and the 3rd part, he wanted to get me a piece of jewelry, but didn't know what to get me, so he was leaving it up to me. I think I want to design a ring with all 3 of the kids birthstones (Sean December, Mack June and Quentin November) which would include Jamie and I too, as I am June and Jamie's birthday is in December like Sean). Just need to find somewhere to design it and hope that those 3 birthstones don't look hideous together.

So to throw me off, I was given about 10 wrapped gifts. Maybe there is one or two hiding here, I have no idea. There was a lot of useless unwrapping, let me tell you.

The looks on my face are priceless. Yes, my mother wrapped a halloween flashlight that she's probably had since the early 90's and bubbles that were bought for my wedding (for the guests to blow bubbles after we were married as we walked back down the aisle, but forgotten about).

And then there was the 2nd part of the gift, which was in box after box. They had me. I wasn't so amused. Though, when I got the end of the boxes, there was a picture of an eye on a pad. Get it? Eye-Pad? I wanted an iPad for my birthday. I've been longing over it for weeks, months even.

I was told that my iPad 2 was ordered and it's estimated ship date is June 30th, 2011 with an estimated arrival of July 5th/6th. I am so excited. I did get email confirmation that it's left apple, and will be here sooner than that. I've already started looking at ipad cozies (to knit) on Ravelry, but I fear that the iPad 2 is a lot smaller than the original iPad, so maybe the cozy will be too big? Does anyone have an iPad 2 and have you knit it a cozy? I keep eying this pattern, but again, fear it'll be too big? I won't start anything until I actually have my new (engraved!) iPad in my hands. BEST BIRTHDAY GIFT EVER! Thank you, thank you!

We ended the evening wit ice cream & cake.

Of course, Mack (hiding in his hands) did not want to be sung happy birthday to, again. I am really starting to think he is not a fan of birthdays. He has on a few occasions now said he doesn't like it and started to cry. Poor guy.

Yet, 2 minutes later, he's silly Mack again.

Hope you all had a great Father's Day. Hope it treated you well & you spoiled the daddies in your life (husbands, your own father, etc).

Stay tuned, still editing photos from our crazy busy week - more posts to come!