One Whole Hand

Connor turned the big 0-5 on October 4th!  He was very excited to turn five right up until a couple days before when he started declaring that he didn't want to turn five.  I told him that five was cool because he was one whole hand old!  When people asked how old he was, all he had to do was hold up his hand!  That seemed to work, and he's been celebrating five ever since.

In case you are all wondering why you weren't invited to a party, don't fret - Connor didn't want a big birthday party.  I think he gets very overwhelmed at birthday parties, especially those for him, and asked for just grandparents, Auntie, and Paige to come down.  He also asked for a "Pigmy" cake from the "Pocket God" app on my phone.  Since my last few attempts at creating such cakes hasn't been great, I decided to just print out a photo and bring it to the Stop & Shop bakery.  Easy peasy!  We weren't allowed to sing "Happy Birthday" because he really hates it, so there was no singing.  So if we're ever at your child's birthday party, don't take offense if he doesn't sing!

Connor has never really shown interest in actually opening presents before.  He always liked what was inside the wrapping paper, but never had the urge to rip the paper off like most kids do.  This year, it was different.  We brought out his presents from Grammy and Grampy and he couldn't wait to open them!  Hopefully he'll still be this excited about opening gifts at Christmas!

At his "party", Connor got a GIANT dart gun from Mimi and Papa.  It can shoot up to twenty darts in just a few seconds.  Needless to say Mom deemed this an outside toy.  And for good reason:
                  (disclaimer:  no babies were hurt in the making of this blog post)

Connor was very excited to eat his cake.  But he needed to blow out his candle first.  Apparently when he said he didn't want a candle, he meant it.  So the "wind" may have blown out the candle.

The cake was a big hit, but very messy.  That was some bright frosting!