It is hard to seperate a late December birthday from Christmas and all the craziness of the season. I feel bad for Sawyer sometimes, even though he doesn't realize it yet. We chose his birthday to be on the 21st of December (c-section) after much deliberation. I didn't know which would be better, a birthday before Christmas or after. I thought that before would be better because then it wouldn't be an afterthought, something that was just another thing to do. Yet, I think before is just as bad, maybe even worse, because ALL thoughts are on what is left to finish before Christmas and what has been left undone, the wrapping that needs to be completed, etc. We chose the furthest date that we could before Christmas, but I secretly somewhat wish we would have chosen Dec 30th which would have been the furthest after Christmas. Then, all the craziness would be over. The agony of choosing your child's birthdate! If you have not had a planned c-section before, it is a weird thing to choose and know the exact date of your child's birthday. We didn't choose Sydney's day because I went into labor and it ended in a c-section on the 24th of June. I think it must be so much easier to choose a day in any other month than December. Am I making too big a deal of this? We are going to try to make Sawyer's day special, no matter what. When we got together with the Jones side for Christmas, there was a Cars cake for him and we sang happy birthday.
On the day of his birthday the four of us went to the movie theater for the first time together! It was a very fun and special evening. We started by having dinner at McDonalds. This was chosen more for time factor than anything, but Sawyer enjoyed it immensly.
Here we are in the row enjoying the previews and our snacks. Barry and I have never been to the movies with Sydney either! Aunt Laura always took her for the new movies in the theater. Those were the "Aunt Laura" days, until baby emma came along! ;) And it was Sawyer's first movie. As you all can understand, we'd never set foot in a theater with him. It was too scary to do that! But, now that he's three, we figured he could handle sitting there.
We watched the movie "Bolt". It was funny and the kids really liked it.
We have had his birthday party in January every year. We are a little late this year, since his party will be in two weeks. It is nice to have it seperated and have something fun happening in January. His party theme will be Tonka trucks. He loves Tonka trucks and has quite a collection going. I don't know why, but it took me a long time to think of a theme. Finally it hit me! He's going to love it.
