Birthday Month

Birthdays are a BIG deal in my house and always have been. That was something my mom and dad did for all of us. I liked it - who wouldn't. Doesn't everyone like being made feel special for at least one day out of the year. It was a tradition that I definitely wanted to keep when I got married. I am not sure that Jamison understood it at first, but he has gone with my make a fuss over everyone on their birthday and let me run with it.

When Robin married into our family, I knew she was meant to be a Crockett as she instituted the birthday week. Every day of your birthday week, you get to choose the activity. I liked the idea! She can stay! (Note: Robin is a way cool person anyway, this is just one of the thousands of reasons that I am glad she is part of the Crockett Clan).

However, Grayson has taken our birthday tradition to a whole new level. He managed to make it a birthday month. Granted, Ike kept pushing one of his parties out, but that is beside the point....the child blew out 4 separate sets of candles! The original plan was to have a little kids party and invite the grandparents. Sounded good - only the rest of the family wasn't up for that idea. So, I compromised since my cousin Kelley and her twins were going to be in town, we would have a small family party the weekend after his birthday. Being the mom that I am, I could not let the actual birthday pass without singing to him - really, all we were going to do was have sweet rolls and sing to him.

Lets recap how it all went down:
Sept 1:
Birthday Celebration 1 - breakfast and presents with mom and dad


Birthday Celebration 2 - steak dinner (How did he pull that off?) and cupcakes at Mimi and Pop's


Sept 6:
Birthday Celebration 3 - COOKIE MONSTER! italian dinner and cake with the family





Sept 28:
Birthday Celebration 4 - TRUCKS! pb&j and cake with friends