My sisters hate blog posts with no pictures. So, I'll apologize right now, because there will be no pictures.

So Drake just celebrated his 4th birthday! Can you believe that!!? I'm sure you can because you don't live with the kid, however, CJ and I are still in shock about it.
I will post pictures as soon as I remember to.
He had a ton of fun with all of his family there! We now have a huge back yard that we get to enjoy so it was lots and lots of fun.
He also had his 4 yr check up at the Dr.'s and it went great! He's 98% for weight and 92% for height. Nice work kid!

His loves right now include:
Dinosaurs (and lots of them)
Apples (he eats one EVERY day)
National Geographic channel
The show Finding Bigfoot (he's obsessed)
Puzzles.



Quick funny story: (I say funny but it may not be funny to you and that's ok) We (CJ and I) say prayers every night with Drake and we kneel next to his bed. Well for a couple weeks he's been fighting us a little. He just says things like "Will you help me?" or we'll all fold our arms waiting for Drake to start the prayer and he'll tell us that he has to stretch first. Well, one night we got Drake all ready for bed and in his PJ's and he just hopped right into bed without kneeling bedside with us. CJ told him to get down and "reminded" him that we kneel next to our bed to say our bedtime prayers and Drake's response was "oh, (snicker) I didn't even realize". It took all CJ and I had not to bust up laughing at him. He is too young to be using words like "realize" and he didn't even finish his sentence correctly which made it that much more adorable. He was trying to act so smooth and grown up and it totally didn't work!

Then Easter rolled around and it was pretty much ruined because of my cheapness. Don't judge. Here is goes......
My sister Jessica lives in California and she was at a dollar store out there and saw a cute camo Easter basket. She called me to see if I wanted it and I of course said "YES!" It was camo..... and only a buck! Well, she came into town and gave me the basket when Drake was not in the room, so there is no way he could have seen it. Also, because Drake's b-day is so close to Easter some people will give him Easter eggs for his b-day. Anyway, I keep them, I also have kept the one's that my parents or CJ's parents have given Drake in his Easters baskets throughout the year. I just use the same eggs each year and it's no big deal, I mean the kid see's them once a year and then they get taken away and I put them in my Easter bin downstairs. Well during Drake's Easter egg hunt he finds his basket and makes the comment "That's from Jess." He was so matter of fact about it that I thought I was going to die. I acted all confused and tried to just ignore him, lol!!! I think I said "Why would you think that?" ha! And he just kept saying "That's from Jess." I have no idea how he would have thought or figured that out but I'm going to have to be ten times more sneaky next year. Then..... When we were inside going though his eggs he picked up a particular egg and said "Hey! This is from my birthday last year!" He seemed excited about it, but again, CJ and I about DIED!!! How does this kid remember things that small from his Birthday a year ago???!
Lesson learned. Even though I have the storage room for a small bag of free Easter eggs; I need to go buy brand new ones every year!!!!! And I'll have to buy an Easter basket late Saturday night after the kid goes to sleep.