Birthday #4...and #5?

Well, I told myself I would really be in trouble if I tried to do AJ's 6th birthday post having not yet done David's from December.  Both birthdays have one thing in common this year...I could not get my act together on either to get the parties planned and invites out in time to have the friend celebrations on or near their actual birthdays, so Davey's was a month late in January and AJ's was a month late in July.  I kept trying to explain to them the brilliance of getting to milk the birthday celebration longer by spreading things out, but they found it pretty hard to understand why their parties were not on their birthdays and even harder to wait for the party to arrive.

Davey wanted to have his 4th birthday be exactly like AJ's 5th birthday...same venue, same pinata, same decorations, etc.  The main difference was that Davey was very excited to have a robot-themed birthday, and specifically a "WALL-E Party!" in honor of his favorite Disney movie.  I thought it would be a piece of cake (wink, wink) to find cups, plates, etc. in a Disney movie theme, but apparently this one is old enough now that they do not stock it anywhere.  The only things I could find were balloons and cake toppers, and I had to order them from somewhere in the UK.  Good thing I had that extra month to wait for those guys to arrive in the overseas mail.  I guess they still like WALL-E over in Britain.

My favorite part of the party was the craft where the kids made little robots out of paper lunch bags.  I think Davey's favorite part was probably the pinata.  That kid loves to have permission to whack at something with a bat while indoors.  After looking back at the party pictures, I would have to amend that statement to say his favorite part of the party was the Tavern pizza.  He ate no fewer than five slices and stayed at the table eating long after his friends had all run back to the swingsets to play.  Davey's love for pizza has only grown through the year, and he is a huge fan of thin-crust sausage pizza in particular.  I think he would choose sausage pizza over dessert any day.  I guess that's the Italian blood kicking in.

Davey was very sweet to his party guests and excited that they came to celebrate.  He also became a little shy and self-conscious when it was time to sing to him.  If he knew the phrase "aw, shucks, guys!" I am pretty sure it is what he would have said based on the look on his face.

The last thing I want to remember about Davey at this age is that he is so excited to be four, mainly because it brings him another birthday closer to AJ.  He did his thing again where he was insisting to AJ around the time of his birthday that he was going to catch up to AJ in age, and it predictably made AJ, Mr. Logical, blow a gasket again.  This time it was the two birthday parties (one with family, and then the friend party a month later) that Davey used to make his case.  "AJ, guess what!?!  I am going to turn 4 in December and then I will have another birthday in January and I will turn 5 like you!!  And we will be five together!"  I thought AJ's head would explode.