Happy Hayes Family: Andrew Turns Four!

Thursday, March 13, 2008

Andrew Turns Four!

Today is Andrew's fourth birthday. I am amazed that the last four years have flown by so fast. Can it really be true?

We celebrated tonight with a meal of one of Andrew's favorite foods: hot dogs! At least we grilled them and ate them on buns (as opposed to microwaved and cut up into little wheels). My cousins, Travis and Tyler, are staying with us for a few days while their parents are in Russia. My dad was working on a project at church, but my mom was able to have dinner with us as well. I made chocolate chip cookies for Andrew to take as birthday treats to school, so we had those for our birthday dessert. Andrew wanted to skip the singing of "Happy Birthday" and go straight to presents, but we "wowed" him with our singing anyway.

Speaking of the chocolate chip cookies - I had sent them to school in a plastic tub in Andrew's backpack. They didn't eat them all at snack time, so his teacher sent home the leftovers. His backpack was stuffed pretty full, so he was carrying the plastic tub. When Monica (Andrew's bus driver) stopped in front of our house, he was actually still sitting in his seat (usually he is standing and she is holding him back from falling as she pulls to a stop). So what was he doing? Eating cookies. That little rascal!

Happy 4th Birthday, Andrew. We love you!

Tyler, Ryan, Travis
Andrew, and Steven

We had to find a new stuffed animal with
which to take Andrew's annual rocking chair picture.
We had to throw away the big Snoopy that we
had been taking the annual picture with, because
he sprung a leak. He was leaking tiny styrofoam
pellets everywhere. I think he was a little old
and worn out. He was a hand-me-down after all.