This year's birthday was a lot of fun. Chris's parents and my mom came to his school to watch him celebrate the Montessori way. He walked on a big ellipse around a candle (the "sun") three times, once for every year he's been on Earth. The kids sang a song celebrating Lucas's life and the teacher told stories and showed pictures about what he did in each of those three years. Then Lucas presented a gift for the classroom which is what they encourage us to do. He chose a book titled "The Life Cycle of a Turtle" and though he had never actually opened it before presenting it, he declared the picture inside with eggs to be his favorite and paraded around the ellipse an extra time to show it to the class.
When we came home, Lucas was awestruck and elated with the balloons and decorations. He got many great gifts (cars of course, Candyland, an abacus, books on CD and a keyboard among other things) and took it all in stride.
It was cute to see the look on his face when I brought out the cake and we sang happy birthday. He was so surprised and pleased. He felt special from morning until night and it brought us so much joy. Our little baby boy!
I love the photo of him running up to you with the cake and the huge grin on his face. What kind of cake is that? And I love that he is drinking out of a fancy glass.
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