Happy Birthday, Spencer!

I'm only *checks calendar* 3 days late posting this. I feel like a hamster on one of those wheels, running and running but not going anywhere!

Anyway, my sweet guy is now 5! And even better than being 5 is the fact that, in about the last month or so, he's gained 3-4 pounds. This is an especially big deal as I think he's been 32-33 pounds consistently over the last year. He hopped on the scale at the vet's office on Monday (which is a whole other post, ugh) and it said 37 pounds. I thought it was calibrated wrong. I stuck him on our scale at home and it said the same thing. Awesome! I hope the weight hangs on; he certainly needs it.

We held his party on the 15th at our local youth center. He attended a party there in January and had such a great time that he decided he wanted his party there too. They blow up those huge inflatables (a slide and a bounce house, in our case) and do 98% of the clean up, so it was really great.

We invited everyone in his class plus a few of his buddies that aren't in his class. I think we ended up with between 15 and 20 kids in attendance and it was so much fun. I don't think I sat down once for the entire two hours, but it was great.

Party table:


I bought 30 capri suns, 12 cokes (and by cokes I'm speaking southern, I mean "soda"), and 12 bottles of water. I also made a batch of lemon squares, brownies, and 2 dozen cupcakes. At the end of the day, I had a few Diet Cokes, 2 cupcakes, and 2 lemon squares left. Successful menu planning! I was scared I was going to have way too much food.


Spencer requested a Thomas the Tank Engine ice cream cake from Dairy Queen. I had no idea it was actually ALL ice cream. I'm used to ice cream cakes being half ice cream, half cake, which is why I was perplexed as to why the cake seemed to be melting all over.

I can't remember a time when he's ever liked to have the birthday song sung to him.


For kicks, I made him pose with a diaper that they sent me home with from the NICU (for his baby book, they said). This size diaper was actually a bit too big for him in the beginning.