Preston's party at Parkettes was Iron Man themed, and when he came downstairs on the morning of his birthday he found his Birthday Balloons waiting for him! He wanted to go to Dunkin Donuts, but I think we ended up staying home and having eggs for breakfast. It was a little simpler. And then John and Preston decorated the double header train cake together while Luke helped me to do some chores around the house.
I think Preston had an awesome birthday!
I went a little overboard on the photo gallery, but there are few more photos I didn't post here that you can find on the full album HERE.
As I mentioned, Luke also thinks he is 5. He wants to do everything that his big brother can do, and is successful most of the time. He hasn't gotten himself into too much trouble, yet, but he's getting to the point where he needs more constant supervision.
His vocabulary is really exploding. He's starting to deliberately and thoughtfully put together 2-3 word sentences like "Daddy go outside" "I drop napkin" "Where's Preston" and of course the old standards "I DID IT!" and "I love you" and "Bless you." It's all very adorable.
He also now says "Preston" and his own name sounds like "Yukey." He's working on colors, but his favorite so far seems to be "Blue."
His train vocab is also coming along. He used "Diesel" correctly the other day, which is exciting news, because we are branching out from just "choo-choos" into the world of pistons and smokestacks, cabooses and hopper cars, johnson bars, cylinders... there is a lot to learn there.
One of the other adorable things about Luke is that he loves to sing! Sometimes he makes it up, sometimes he sings things that are somewhat recognizable, and sometimes he requests things for me to sing.
At bedtime I get a lot of strange requests for songs like:
Luke - "Blue"
Me - "Blue what?"
Luke - "Sheep"
Me - "You mean Bah Bah Blue Sheep"
Luke - "Yesh" (Because he says Yes with an "sh" and it's adorable - for now"
I also get some random requests, and I think he just asks for them to see if I can come up with a song like: Piggy, Froggy, and Snowman - I do my best.
We got the bassinet from Gigi and Grandpa and it lives in Luke's room for now (until he finally vacates that room so baby girl can actually move in, but it seems like we are nowhere closer to getting him into a big boy bed. All in due time). He loves to show it to me and say "baby's bed."
Baby Girl Updates:
I had an appointment last week and the doctor couldn't tell if the baby was head down or breech. They scheduled an ultrasound for this week so that we could know for sure what her position is and then "make some decisions." So last week I had something to focus on for this baby. I diligently did my cat and cow yoga poses to better position my uterus. I had John set up a board for me at a 25 degree angle so that I could lay with my feet in the air to encourage her to flip, and apparently it paid off, because today at my appointment she was perfectly positioned. Now I have nothing left to focus on! She measured in at 5lbs 11ozs which is 49th percentile for 36 weeks gestation (perfectly average), and everything else looked great. John came to my appointment with me because we knew there would be an ultrasound, and then he ratted me out to the doctor because I've been trying to pump some supplementary milk ahead of time in case I have another dramatic few days of a starving baby like I did with Luke. I'm not allowed to do it anymore because it could put me into labor (bummer). He also ratted me out about my water intake. I think I'm doing pretty well with that. The midwife at least found him funny *winks.* Oh, and she's still a girl. They double checked.