May 9th Birthday Celebration

May 9th is the twins' actual birthday. And since it was on a Saturday this year, we had a long day of planned birthday activities. And since we're a tad concerned that baby #4 will be arriving very close to Paxton's actual birthday on May 21st, we decided to give Pax his presents on Saturday, too.

After I took some six-year-old photos on the front porch, we got straight to opening presents! Each child got three gifts from us.

Gavin got a Star Wars shirt, a red and yellow dump truck, and a circuit board. He has been playing with his exact circuit board set at the children's museum for the last six months or so and was totally shocked when he opened the box.

Vivian got a letter stamp set with sketch pad, a pink and purple dump truck, and a bow and arrow. Vivi  has been asking us for her very own bow and arrow for the past two years. She was ecstatic when she opened her last gift!

Paxton got two talking trucks (Blaze and Zeg) from his ultimate favorite show, Blaze and the Monster Machines. He was totally shocked when he opened these gifts. Then, we also got Pax a scooter. He's been fighting with Gavin and Vivian just about everyday since Christmas over using their scooters. We're hoping that this ends that argument. 😜

After opening gifts, Gavin immediately ran to the dining room table to set up his circuit board and Vivian ran outside to try out her bow and arrow. We played outside and the twins opened their cards from Auntie Bird.

Then, we went to the Farmer's Market, as per the twins' requests. Vivi and Pax got cookies and Gav got a bag of kettle korn. 

Lunch was spent at Firehouse Subs, where G and V got their free birthday subs!

When we came home, I took all three upstairs to write the "20 Questions" post (see previous post) while Wes got our final gift set up outside.

After they jumped for a while, we took a strawberry shortcake and ice cream break. Then they quickly went back to jumping.

We ended the day ordering pizza for dinner. It was definitely a great day!