Reflections on Edgewater: Brandon Turned 4!!

What fun turning 4!! Brandon had a busy weekend filled with all kinds of special activities and treats. He ate hot dogs for three meals (Brandon heaven), went flying with Bumpa (Grandpa) who did a whole bunch of negative and positive G's and Brandon loved every minute of it, had his dream Thomas cake become reality, got to open lots and lots of presents, got to skype with Grandpa and Grandma Horling, and had two straight days of daddy-time. Let's just say, he's just a wee bit exhausted. :)

Brandon has been asking for a Thomas cake for a while so last week I found six cake pictures on the Internet and let him pick which one he wanted me to make. He chose a 3-D Thomas, the one I was the most leery of making. I think it turned out pretty well, despite taking twice as long as I thought it would to make.

Brandon watched most of the process to make it and just didn't think it would actually turn in to a Thomas cake. "Mom, is that my cake?" "Mommy, it's not blue." "That doesn't look like a train." Then he went flying and was gone for about three hours. When he walked in the door with Bumpa he was all ready to tell me about his flight when he turned around, stopped mid sentence, his eyes went wide and he said, "It's Thomas!"

By the time I was finished decorating it, the back was starting to sag from the weight, but that's as far as it sunk, so not so bad.

We ate outside since it was such a beautiful day. Gramps and GG are building a new house
so they gave us their patio set. We are so excited to have something sturdy outside to use.

And then it was time for Brandon to open his presents. The moment he had been anticipating with VERY eager excitement for days on end. He wasn't disappointed!

He woke up the next morning (Sunday) and said to me, "Mommy, I will go fishing with Daddy and Bumpa."
Me: "Yup, you will some day."
Brandon: "Are Micah and you going to stay at my house?"
Me: "Probably"
Brandon: "Yup, cause me and daddy and Bumpa are going to be boys."

Airplane from CARS 2. The cars fit inside.

Uncle Andrew and Auntie Cheryl gave him cones and a soccer ball. At first he wasn't sure what they were for,
so he went with what he knew and made them into the hotel for his cars from the CARS movie.

Sunday, his actual birthday, he got to talk to Grandpa and Grandma Horlings over skype. We had saved a couple of his presents so he could open some on his birthday and one of them was from this set of grandparents. It was fun to have them "in" our house and watch Brandon open his present from them. They got to see his eager excitement over FINALLY getting James for his Thomas and Friends set.

Later on we also gave him Rocky, who is a crane for his track. Brandon has this boy thing going on where everything crashes so we got him a crane to help fix all the crashes. ;) He really got into it.

And books. Oh how this boy loves his Thomas books!

After nap time Bryan taught Brandon the real use for the cones and his soccer ball. It will be good to work on his feet coordination. Sometimes he got ahead of the ball and sometimes the ball got way ahead of him, but we're pretty sure he's going to catch on to it sooner rather than later.