Jaggar's 4th Birthday

Jaggar asked every day after his zoo trip when his birthday was.  He would say, "UGH!  But it's SO hard to wait!"  Every day, we'd count down another day to when his birthday was.  Truth is, I wanted it to be here too, because I wanted him to get what he wanted.  Oh, one of the reasons we did his zoo trip a week before his birthday is that Travis went out of town on a 6 day shoot for MTV and wouldn't return until the day before Jaggar's birthday.  May was SO busy.  AND Jaggar's birthday was field day at Sage's school, AND I had a meeting at 7:30 in the morning for Sage being in the gifted program.  So he woke up and I had to leave!  I think he was like, "I've waited this long, and I'm still having to wait?"  I hated to leave him, but field day was over by 10:30, and I checked Sage out after that.  We went and picked up some balloons and his beloved Toy Story cake from Publix and had plans to eat lunch at Chick-Fil-A and play on the playground with Sage and Paisley.  Travis had come home to help Mom with the baby, as I could not take him to field day, so we decided to go ahead and do some presents, as this boy had waited long enough.  He didn't even care about the balloons once we mentioned presents.

Isn't he beautiful?

This was from us, and it was his "big present."

I don't know how he even knows who Spiderman is, but he does, and he loves him.  Spiderman climbs up the wall and then flips up to stand on the roof.  I wish I would have known that was going to happen so that I could have gotten Jaggar's expression.  It was awesome.

He got new blocks from Mema so he can build things on his work bench.  He loves that thing.

And then came the bag of Octonaut goodies from Nonni.

This was a MAJOR Fave.  Kwazzi and the shark Gup.  That came to Chick Fil A with us.  It was so hot outside, and normally I can't get Jaggar to leave.  But when I asked him if he was ready to go home, he left in a heartbeat to get back to his presents that we'd left behind as soon as he opened them.

And THEN...oh, what could this be?

Isn't that wonderful?!  He was so excited.  And he's so sweet.  When we got home, Sage, of course, wanted to play with it...and actually set it up her way.  And he let her!  She'd ask to play with all of his new things, and he let her!  I'd never have let my brother do that.

Behold, the Octonaut house.

One Present

Our precious Jaggar turned FOUR this month, and I have a lot of pictures to share from that but not enough energy to do it tonight, so I wanted to post this one day.  We celebrated him for a good week.  I didn't do a huge party because I'm pretty tapped out on that this year, but we did do something he loved, which I'll get to eventually.  Anyway, I have a soft spot for all of my kids, but there's something about that Jaggar.  It could be a mother/son bond.  Or it could be that face.  I don't know, but I found myself wanting to give him all of his presents before his birthday, and I'm so not like that.  But what I did for his birthday was actually a week before his actual birthday, and I didn't give him all of his presents on that day.  I just gave one to show him that was the day we were celebrating him.  But he was confused a bit and concerned that he really didn't seem to get many presents.

  So, I don't know...I caved and gave him one little present in addition to the one present I'd already given him.  Jaggar is crazy about the show on Disney called Octonauts.  It's actually a show more geared towards boys (GASP), and he is obsessed with it.  They just released a line of toys of them at Toys R Us, and he had two already....but he wanted all of them.  What he wanted MOST was the "octonaut house" and a daily concern of his for months (since he saw it at Toys R Us) was how he was going to get it.  He'd say he was saving his money for it, but then he'd be sad and say that he was never going to get it.  It has been quite a problem for months.  So anyway, on this day of one little present, he got another Octonaut.  The first thing he said was, "How do I play with it?  I don't have an octonaut house."  :)  But he did manage to play with it and couldn't wait to to tell Sage he'd gotten an early present.

Here's a video.



And here's that beautiful boy.

Present Time

After cake and ice cream, it was time for presents. I actually had to kind of force Jaggar to sit to open them because he was so busy playing.

Just a little bit of the craziness.

Nick the family man

And here we go. I loved the outfit from the Mundy family. Jaggar was...you know...ready to move on.

He loves Paisley.

Paisley got him a bag of water toys for the beach, where we are going for a week in July.

Each of Chrissie's kids picked out a toy for him.

He's slightly afraid of this spider man mask.

Okay, this was from Parker. It was called Sticky Baff, and I immediately asked if it was messy. Rhenda said there was no way that she'd do that to me. You basically take the powder inside and mix it with water. It turns the water to goo and then you mix another powder in it that turns it back to water. Chrissie even said it was awesome. So I wanted to test it in bowls in the kitchen before I filled a tub with it.

I included pics from the next morning of them playing in it here. I don't know if I did something wrong, or if my kids are just much wilder than Chrissie's and Rhenda's, but this stuff was INSANE. Granted, they ended up THROWING it at each other, and it was EVERYWHERE. The walls, the table, the floor, underneath the chairs, the blinds....I just kept finding it.

And I obviously couldn't mix the other stuff that was supposed to dissolve it on the floor and all those other mentioned places. It was even in my silverware drawer where Sage went to get a spoon without washing her hands. I had to get a shop vac to vacuum it up. IF they ever get to play with it again, it will be outside. And with the memory so fresh of how messy it was, that's a big if right now.

Back to the party, we got him a Thomas pillow pet.

And he loved that, of course.

This was one of his favorites.

And I love how the older kids are trying to peek inside his unopened present here.

Dinosaur train! HE LOVES this thing. It's a show on PBS kids, and he has many dinosaurs from it.

Cars

Okay, this was something that he talked about regularly, too. Jaggar loves Rudolph, as I've said. And he has many characters in the stuffed form from that show. I'm always looking on ebay because they made a ton of the stuffed animals in '98, and I saw one huge set for $12 at the time. It ended up going up to $30 with shipping, and I didn't want to pay that much, but Jaggar saw "Charlie in the Box animal" in the group and zoned in on it. From then on out, he kept saying, "Can I get Charlie in the box animal at my Thomas birthday?" So it became my job to find that one on ebay. I found it (with Clarice) for a very reasonable price and won the bid. His face was adorable. He said, "I got Charlie in the box animal! Can I put this in my bed?" Everyone laughed because it is so random.

He wouldn't put them down.

If you remember my after Christmas sales, one of the things I got was an Olivia house. This is a show on Nick Jr, and at the time, I thought the house would be cute for Paisley's birthday. Earlier in the year at Sage's book fair, Jaggar RAN and grabbed an Olivia book and said, "It's my fav-rit Olivia book! This is mine!" So that's what I got him, and he will go get that Olivia book all the time. Nearing his birthday, I thought of that house and thought how much he would love it...even if it is geared more towards girls. Well, when I took it down, I saw it actually turns into a pirate ship as well, so that was cool. His face when he opened it...o my gosh, he screamed, "OLIVIA! Get her out!" It was so cute.

My mom got him this dump truck that talks and shoots balls across the room. It moves and sings. SAGE actually loves that.

I immediately tried to get all the toys in one spot so that nothing was lost. We did lose Olivia, which was slightly traumatic, but Travis, who is always the one to find our misplaced things, found her.

Travis' dad and step-mom

Jaggar and Paisley. Notice he is still holding onto his Charlie in The Box. He also has Clarice and Olivia.

After presents, some people left, but most went back outside to play.

Notice my biggest kid at the top.

After everyone left, Travis fell asleep for a bit before taking Nick's slide back, but I could not sit down. I knew if I did that I would not get up, and I wanted to clean up somewhat. By the time I did, I realized I never even took a picture with the birthday boy.

He was SO grateful for his party. He told me, "This was the best day ever!" How sweet!!!! And when Travis was rocking him, I could hear Jaggar talking away on the monitor. I asked Travis, "He had a lot to say, didn't he?" Travis said that Jaggar thanked him for every individual thing on his birthday. "Thank you for my Thomas birthday. Thank you for my Thomas cake. Thank you for my Thomas balloons. Thank you for my present." That alone made every bit of it worth it. What a sweet boy we are blessed to have celebrated.

**Make sure to hit older posts at the bottom of the page because all of the birthday party posts wouldn't fit on one page. I finished up the party posts today!