Happy Birthday Ian...just a little late

I'm a little late with this post but I do have good excuse for my laziness in the blogging world. I've been putting my nursing skills to the test lately while caring for my sick kiddos and hubby. Poor Ian has had a stubborn case of Strep that we might finally have gotten rid of. It only took 2 different antibiotics and about 3 weeks! Now Trevor and Donovan are sick but luckily no sign of strep from them...just wearing me out!
February 15th marked my baby's 7th birthday! That's right...Ian is now officially 7!! I can't believe how fast the time has gone by. It seems like only yesterday he was my little baby that needed me for everything. Now he's just my big baby that needs me occasionally...but I'll take what I can get! Ian has been such a blessing to our lives and I can't imagine my life without him. I often say to myself and to Donovan "What did we ever do with our lives before we had him?' He makes me smile every day and I'm always wondering what is he going to do or say next! Ian is my little storyteller and boy can he weave some yarn! lol He is a wonderful big brother to Trevor and Nicholas, a delight to his Grandparents, and the light of our lives.
We celebrated Ian's birthday over the course of several days in fact. Friday 13th was his party at school (we just combined birthday with Valentine's), Saturday we all got together at his favorite Mexican restaurant, El Charros, for dinner, and then celebrated with everyone again on Sunday the 15th. Ian wasn't too sure what to think at El Charros. When it's your birthday they all come out and put a big sombrero on your head and sing to you in Spanish (which he got a kick out of) and then they like to try to smash your face into a big whipped cream topped treat. He liked the singing but wasn't sure whether to be mad or not over the whipped cream in his face (they got him pretty good too!). He finally realized it was all in good fun and from then on had a blast with the big hat and attention. Sunday was actually his birthday and we headed to Aunt Alice's for cake and ice cream. Not just any cake either....but a Darth Vader cake! That's all he wanted for me to make him this year...just Darth Vader. So that's what I did and he loved it!
Just to warn you...there are alot of pictures to follow but I had a lot to choose from and many more I could have posted. (I'm really going to have to figure out the slideshow on here sometime)
He really really wanted to take home the sombrero :-)
Mmmmm, you have to lick the candles ya know!
Ian and his Auntie Alices model their hats for us..
yay!! more cool stuff!
Trying to open gifts with his constant little helper, Trevor
Nicholas was just waiting for cake!
Trevor loved the "gooey" egg...he tried to feed it to everyone!
Bailey even had to play with the gooey egg....it looked and felt like a real raw egg...yuk!
One specially made Darth Vader cake for my boy
Cheese!!!!
Oh boy...ripping and tearing presents is great!
He loved the bottoms of his new Spiderman sandals and sneakers
He has since this almost used up all his Martian goo
The highlight of his day....his new Red Rider BB gun! And yes I did tell him not to shoot his eye out too! lol
Trevor was my icing taster while decorating....love those black teeth and purple lips!