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Tina's BlogToday/Yesterday (Tuesday) was Will's birthday. We really didn't plan much of a celebration–first, his party was supposed to be last week, but has been postponed until after Labor Day weekend. Second, we had agreed to host this evening a get together with for our Kenya Missions Team. But I still wanted to make his actual birthday a little special, so we did do a few things for him.
We started off by giving him his birthday gift from us. We set it up the night before and had it out for when he got up in the morning.

It's from Fisher Price and called a GeoTrack. This is a plastic train track/road system with remote controlled trains. It's an older version then you can find in stores now (for those who might be in the know about these toys), but it doesn't matter to Will and that's what counts. We actually got the whole set (the main part and several extensions) from some friends cleaning out their basement. It looks brand new, just not in the box–that's why we wanted to set it up the night before!

He was thrilled with the surprise–I was not surprised he noticed it right away.

He was nice and shared it with his brother. The boys played with this ALL day. I made them go outside for a few hours after nap/rest time, but then they were back in and playing with it after supper. Alex started to play with other toys but Will was still enjoying the trains. It was wonderful, it gave me plenty of time to clean the house and make the meal for tonight. They even played with it most of the time during our meeting.

When Mommy is busy doing laundry & cleaning up a house after being gone for a week, she goes the easy way for a cake. I didn't want to make a large cake becase we'll be doing that for his party and I knew people would be bringing desserts for our meeting tonight. But I wanted a cake just for Will, so we found one at the store today, added the special candle Grandma Harbin gave him and a quick decoration by me. (Yes, I'll take the blame fro the blob of a 5…I'll do better on his next cake, I promise!)

He didn't seem to mind. It'll probably be the only store bought cake he gets (I'm a bit embarassed to admit it was on the marked down shelf, but that's the only way I could justify it!).
He did ask me around supper time why no one came over for his birthday today. I reminded him when his party will be and told him people would be coming over then. He's so smart about some things, I forget that he doesn't "get" some of these things right away! Anyway, that made me glad we'd planned a few things for him. So, now we have a 5 year old!