Jacob celebrated his 9th birthday on March 1st! Per usual, there was no shortage of celebrating going on in our house. We had lots of fun gatherings with our friends and family to celebrate, but I think the highlight of Jacob's birthday was his sleepover birthday party. Stealing the idea from his sister, he thought it was simply a fabulous plan to have his buddies over for the evening.
Anticipating the high energy level of boys, we let him invite half of the amount of people that Jenna had at her party. And let me tell ya, what a brilliant idea that was! 5 boys = 10 girls. It came as no surprise to us that these boys came over ready to party. My hopes of them eventually falling asleep were immediately dashed the second they set foot in the house. No explanation necessary. They're boys. Here are the party animals....Jacob, Neel, Jacob W., Logan, Connor, and Dylan....oh, and Nicholas! Jacob was really nice and let his baby brother participate in all the fun. Nicholas thought he was so cool hanging with the big boys all night.
Jacob was so excited when we found this Star Wars birthday cake! It came with Darth Vader and Luke Skywalker figures complete with illuminated light sabers. For those of you who don't know, Jacob has become quite the Star Wars fan. Stay tuned to the blog for an upcoming post about this new obsession of his.
After eating pizza and cake the boys played "Star Wars" and ran around battling each other with light sabers. Dylan was nice enough to bring foam balls (thank you, Dylan) to make the battle even more fun. It was entertaining to say the least. I'm still amazed at the crazy sound effects that boys can make. Girls just can't do it.
Jacob was so excited to get some new Star Wars stuff and DS games for his new Nintendo DS (which he saved up for and bought with his own money!). He loved all of his gifts and is very thankful. We gave him a scooter (his old one has seen better days) and the Stars Wars Trilogy. He's now the proud owner of all of the Star Wars movies. :)
The boys settled down to long enough to watch Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith and part of Toy Story III. Here they are eating popcorn and kicking back together. We left them on their own at around 10pm and headed up to bed. Unlike the modest giggling and laughing that took place with Jenna's slumber party, it sounded like a tackle football game was taking place downstairs. I later found out that they were having sack races with their sleeping bags! They did finally crash around 2:30am after I came downstairs to find all of them all wide awake and wrestling with their shirts off, the pantry raided, every possible light we own on, and SpongeBob Squarepants on the T.V. After suggesting that they entertain the idea of sleep they reluctantly crawled into their sleeping bags and fell asleep. (By this point, Nicholas had ditched the boys for his own bed.)
Jacob still sleeps with his Froggy every night...doesn't matter who's there. The boys were all up at 6:30am the next morning and ready to eat. Jacob requested a very special treat for breakfast: Fruit Loops! My kids have never had them (don't make fun of me) so my little ones didn't even know what they were. All the fun ended around 9am when parents started coming. Jacob had a great time with his friends and was really happy with his party. :)At his 9-year checkup we found that Jacob is now 74 lbs. and 4' 6" tall (75% for weight and height). He was not happy to find out that he still needs to be in a booster seat (he's three inches too short). It'll be at least a year or two big guy! He still loves sports and is looking forward to starting competitive baseball this spring. His recent interests include Star Wars, Mighty Beans, and his new DS. He likes school, has lots of friends, and is doing fantastic in his academics. All that said, I'm mostly so proud of the wonderful person that Jacob is growing up to be.
Happy Birthday, Jacob!
