4 YEARS OLD!

What a great day for our big 4 year old boy! It started out with Krispy Kreme donuts and then it was off to school for him. He was so excited to go! At the end of class Emma and I showed up with cupcakes for the class and we got to sing Happy Birthday to him and even got to sing the Goodbye song with him - Emma remembered it from when she went there 4 years ago! (After Eli was born we would go and take Emma to school and hang out there with Shelby and Eli would sleep on Ms. Nikkii's bed - man the kid has grown since then!!)After school we took the family over to Joe's Farm Grill for lunch. It was perfect weather and the boys all had a great time running around outside!When we came home Eli's friend Logan came over and they played together in the afternoon and then we took Eli out for his birthday dinner. We asked him, "Eli, where do you want to go eat dinner?" He responded with, "cars and animals!" Which means he wants cars and animals for his birthday! After explaining to him what we meant he said, "chick-ol-lay" so we headed out to Chick-fil-a for dinner. They had a face painter there so Eli wanted to get his face painted like all the other kids there and they were all getting pirate faces so he wanted to be a pirate too. After dinner we came home and had dessert and presents with the grandparents. Grandma Jensen got him his spiderman costume he wanted and a spiderman toy and Grandma and Grandpa Rodgers got him his "white robot" which is all we have heard about for weeks - phew! he got it!Because Grandma Rodgers' birthday is the next day, Grandpa brought over the traditional Coldstone birthday cake for everyone plus the ice cream cupcakes and giant ice cream Oreo cookies. We told Eli the cake said, "Happy Birthday Bubbas" even though it really said "Happy Birthday Barbara!"The next day, Eli had his very first friend birthday party. We had it at Bounce-U (Thank you Kristi for the fantastic idea!) and he got to invite 10 little friends. He had such a great time!

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AvaAshlee and MaddyBoAllieLoganBryleeRoyce and JadEmmaEli loved getting to blow candles out 3 separate times and getting to open so many great presents - he really enjoyed all of his new "octopus-primes" (Optimus-prime from Transformers) he got! (from now on, maybe his friends can buy him 3 of everything so that when we come home the twins and Eli don't fight over everything! ha ha)Eli is such a sweet boy and brings us so much joy and happiness. I love how he wants everyone to be his best friend, how if the twins get upset he is the first one to run over there and try to make them feel better, he shares pretty dang good with them and how he is just so squishy and yummy! We love you buddy!!

wt: 39.8 pounds - 75 - 90%
ht: 40.25 inches - 50%
bmi: 17.3 - 90-95%