Despite Adam and I begging him to stay 3 1/2, Cooper went ahead and turned 4 last week...
We started the day with his traditional pancake breakfast. It was even more special because Dad took the day off work to spend with us!
It was time to add a finger!
We surprised him with a visit to Chuck E. Cheese. He has seen commercials for it on TV and asked several times to go. When we pulled up he said, "Is this Chuck E. Cheese? No, they aren't in Texas. Oh wait, this IS Chuck E. Cheese!!!!!!" It was a great reaction.
She didn't know what they were for, but she wasn't letting go.
We wouldn't recommend taking an almost 2 year old to Chuck E. Cheese...kind of a waste. She just wanted to run and run and steal balls from the skee ball machine.
4 is a great age for Chuck E. Cheese, can you tell??
The Skee Ball swiper.
This was my all time favorite game from when I was a kid and that hasn't changed. I was often persuading Coop to come play with me in the 2 hours we were there.
She wanted to tandem ride everything with Coop.
She did love sitting here and loving on Barney.
The birthday boy got to choose lunch, no surprise here. He and the greeter hit it off right away and chatted about his birthday while we ordered.
Well, that sweet man not only brought him out an ice cream sundae, he also sweet talked the table of high school girls next to us to sing along Happy Birthday! Coop was in awe, it was the sweetest ;).
After lunch and naps, the afternoon was full of opening presents and Skype/Facetime calls with family. I was pretty proud of myself, this is all Coop got from Adam and I...well, besides his birthday party. He was pretty happy about it! The rest of his family spoil him ridiculously!
Facetiming with Mamaw and Papaw to open his gifts from them. The kid is officially in Super Hero heaven thanks to his Grandparents and Aunts/Uncles/Cousins. Yep, officially spoiled.
We had birthday party leftovers for dinner and went to see Cars. Cooper was so excited! This pic is the only one I have from the movies, actually I have several that look like this, thanks Laney Faith!
We came home, changed into PJ's, put Sis to bed, wrapped up our Facetime calls for the day and had one last hurrah. Adam and I sat at the table with him for dessert and sang Happy Birthday to our sweet 4 year old.
His reaction was priceless.
We had such a fun day, Coop thought it was pretty great that he got to make important decisions about it and do his favorite things!
Happy 4th Cooper William Jones, we love you to the moon and back! Or as he has told me the last couple nights, he loves me to Robin's house and back ;).
Love his reaction and smiles!!! Looks like he had a really special day!
ReplyDeleteYou have a happy 4 year old!!
Where does the time go?