Lo is the fantastic FIVE!

 Overnight, our baby turned 5...FIVE!  Seems like only yesterday we were driving through a Christmas blizzard to welcome our final and 5th baby...and now he's celebrating his 5th bday!  Yikes!  Well, it wasn't a warm, FL bday as planned...and there was no Mickey shaking our hand at the gates of Disney....but we made the best of it from start to finish.  He woke up before daddy and I....but he waited to eat his yummy bfast...his fav...white donuts...5 of them...with 5 candles and some big smiles while 5 of his paw patrols cheered him on (slightly unnerving if you ask me ) :)

 In the middle of the night, the bday fairy hung 5 balloons over his bed with 5 paw patrol lights and a 5 made out of streamers, which he promptly tore down bc that's the destructive 5 year old he is! :)

 He picked a nice easy Marshall Paw Patrol cake for mama to make...I didn't think it turned out all that bad, but Ash laughed at it and told me it was the "best I could do".  Is that a compliment? And Lo told me after I finished it, that he wanted Chase (blue paw patrol dog) instead.  Nice. 

 A house full of crazy dogs! :)

 If you squint really hard and think warm thoughts you can almost picture this being at the beach in FL instead of the snow of Bloomy :)

 His one request of the day was going to Jumpin' Joeys. Not quite on par with Disney, but it allowed him to run off his energy on a day where the temps were below zero.  They had fun!

There was lots of fun in between all this too (many, many bdaytexts from friends and fam, facetime with the FL fam, Mother Bear's pizza, cake, ice cream sundaes, Charlie Brown movie time, lots of gifts and play time)...but when I kissed him goodnight and asked what his fav. part of the day was, he whispered "opening my gifts...and my favorite was the boat from Sue Sue".  Thanks, Sue Sue for making his day complete!

It was a good day...a subzero cold day...but a good day.  Love this spunky, happy 5 year old.  Who always takes me by surprise with his smart, cute ways.  Tonight when I asked him if he could put together his new lego set he said, "Duh, mom!" in his most dramatic voice.  He's gonna be a lot like his funny/fun brother.  Love you, Logan Thomas.  You are such a light in our lives!