Happy Happy Birthday, from all of us to you...

... we wish it was our birthday so we could party too! HEY!

A week ago today Wade turned 4. He's growing up so fast, particularly in the last couple of months since the boys have been out of school. He's taken to reciting youtube videos and Shrek 3 scenes constantly. We hear no end to "Chance, you be the Shrek. Conner, you be the Artie. Payton, you be the Donkey, and I'll be the Merlin." He has a great brain and is amazing at memorizing things. It blows my mind that he could potentially start kindergarten next year! I don't know why, but for some reason I group Bella in with the older kids but Wade is one of the babies. Wade's my buddy, he often tells me, "Mom, you're my girl." and we get into plenty of fights that go like this:

Wade: "Mom, I so much love you."
Me: "No no no, Wade, I so much love YOU!"
Wade" "No no no, Mommy, I so much LOVE YOU!"

and we just continue this on and on until we're yelling ourselves hoarse. Wade loves being the boss, long bubble baths, pizza and popcorn, broccoli (which he calls trees), computer games, play-dough, and books. He hates getting his haircut, having to get dressed when he's not ready to, and gets mad when he tries to talk but everyone else is talking too loudly. He's been known to yell "BE QUIET!" and when the room is properly hushed, usually within seconds, "Mom, can I have a drink?"

Wade, you're truly my sunshine.

And now for the pictures!

Grandma and Grandpa got Wade a remote-control Wubbzy. There aren't pictures of him driving it because I didn't have any AAA batteries, but Grandpa and Grandma remedied that quite quickly.

See the glee on his face? That's because he's just learned he can squirt this water gun at his brothers all he wants.

It was another "How To Train Your Dragon" birthday. Wade wanted to see it again, so we made an entire event out of it.

You may have thought this was a picture of Hiccup, but it's actually Wade.

This was approximately 2.720 seconds before Wade started whacking Chance with the axe.

Wade voluntarily sharing his armor with Bella. Awww!

And then he proceeded to beat her down with his sword. Notice how she is wearing the armor, but she's the one running.

Wade, you're my boy. Happy Birthday!