Jalen turns 4!

I can't believe my littlest one is already 4! Although he is a "big boy" in many ways...the baby in him comes out every once in awhile (like every night when he sleeps between us!, or when he wants "uppy...code word for pick me up and carry me, or when he is riding in the car getting sleepy and says "i love you mommy", or the fact that he loves to cuddle as much as I do!) I know most of these things he will grow out of, but I hope he stays the "mama's boy" that he is for awhile longer! This year we celebrated his birthday by going to JJ Jump with his friend Brody from pre-school, going out to lunch with Daddy, then Grandma and Papa took him to see the movie Rio since Jamie and I both had to be at the grand opening of the Tualatin Yogurt Shack. We had a little party at Papa and Nana's (the Snook's) the next day and had pizza and a dinosaur cake. The theme this year was dinosaurs...Dino Dan is one of his favorite cartoons so we got him a hat, and some shorts like Dino Dan wears and he got plenty of different play dinosaurs to play with. That was at the top of his list as well as a magical sword, and fake gun (aka nerf gun and water blaster), fake knife, fake wood (we still don't know what he meant by that!). And Jamie and I surprised him with his own DS and a Mario game so he didn't have to carry around the girls old pink one anymore! I think it was a successful couple of days...we had a very happy birthday boy...and lots of toys cluttering up the house to show for it!