Benjamin is 4

Okay he's not officially four yet, his real birthday is on Easter this year.  This is the first year that his birthday has fallen on Easter.  It's going to be a pretty special day for him.  I was just looking at photo's of him as a baby.  I can remember what a good natured baby he was.  He was the most friendly little guy.  He would smile at everyone.  I can remember he would pick out one person in a crowd, or at church, or at a restaurant.  He would sit and smile at them until they would finally acknowledged him and smile back.  We decided to Celebrate his birthday today.  We started out with taking cupcakes into his preschool class and I was able to do a spotlight on him.  It was really fun to be able to see him in his class.  After preschool we had a huge pirate birthday party for the little sunbeams in his church class, and also a couple of his cousins.  It turned out great.  I reused all of the decorations from Kirk's pirate party which he had when he turned four.  It's strange because it seemed like I had just barely hung up all the pirate pictures and the other decorations.  Crazy how a few years feel like just a few weeks.    Here

 Jence loved the kiddie pool.

are some pictures.  Some of the highlights of the party were when the kids "Walked the plank".  They jumped off of our ottoman into a kiddie pool full of balloons, surprisingly the balloons didn't pop.  Dan's father came at the end dressed as a pirate. Ben was scared to take a picture with him.  After we took some photo's with the "pirate", he took them all on a treasure hunt.  I buried a treasure chest in the rubber mulch in the back yard.  Inside the treasure chest were the little take home treat bags.  We also made a couple of crafts, and played pass the seashell, and played a crocodile ring toss.  We still have more celebrating to do on Easter.  I'm going to make him some kind of Easter birthday cake.  For now Happy Birthday Buddy!