and this is my baby?!

Last night we celebrated Jace's 5th birthday. The official day is tomorrow...so he will get some more partying on the real deal. Jace's birthday has kind of evolved into a feast of sorts along with presents. Ya know all those little holiday dips, breads, rolled-up-things-with-toothpicks, etc that you only make for the holidays? I make them all in one night. I grated 3 pounds of mozzarella between the dips and the manicotti and used up 3 tubs of cream cheese...yummy! If you ask Jace about the night he would absolutely say "it was the best birthday ever!" And how could it not be...spiderman costume, light savers, dart gun, spy watch, walkie-talkies, and an erector set (only took me 45 minutes to help him build the "easy" dune buggy).

feeling a little old now....how is it possible that my baby is 5?

we walkied and talkied all day long!

ya know what he is thinking..."ahhhh yeah!"

"you can call me muscles"

"yes ladies, I can save the day!"

Jace had the spidey costume on by 7:00 this morning. By 7:30 he was decked out in all his spy gear, along with two swords, a light saver, and a back pack with other supplies. The day continued with the changing of characters:

9:00 spiderman

10:30 spy guy

11:30 just Jace (didn't want to get lunch on his cool stuff)

11:45 super spy who can kill all bad guys

1:00 spidey with a light saver

This pattern continued until he was finally in pj's...and of course, the pj's were gone by the time he actually went to bed. I sure do love that boy! We are having so much fun just being home (well, we're not really home...we're everywhere else) together every day. Poor kid has never gotten much one on one with me, so these last few months have been so good for both of us. Happy #5 Jace!