Joey turns 4

Yes, we're a little delayed on the blog posts--chalk it up to busy days at work, a trip to California (we'll blog on this soon), and all of us taking turns puking our guts out for the past week or so.

But, before all of that happened, Joseph turned four years old on November 8th. We had a small family party and he got a few gifts that he really enjoys. He got a bowling set that he and Charles like to play with, but it has quickly become a game of "set up the pins and hurry and roll the ball before the monster (Tori) speed-crawls over to the pins to knock them down."

He also loves his new DVD's about fighter pilots and aircraft carriers. He is convinced that he is going to be a pilot when he is older because, as he told me confidently one night, "Daddys know how to fly fighter jets." He was delighted to get some more jets from Grandma and Grandpa Martineau and Uncle James. Every morning he lines up all of his planes for an air show and flies them around the house.

Liz began to ask him what kind of cake he wanted a week or so before his birthday. The first time she asked, he thought about it for a second and then said, "I want a bumblebee cake with a stinger." She asked him a few more times in the days leading up to his birthday and every time he would answer, "I want a bumblebee cake with a stinger." So, being the good mom she is, Liz made him a bumblebee cake with a stinger, even if it was totally random and off-the-wall (she's just happy she got out of making him a fighter jet cake).

Here are some pictures:

Very proud of his bumblebee cake with a stinger. Liz must have gotten it right.
Carefully opening a present. Predictably, he started with the largest one.