Blake is 4!!!!

My "baby" is now 4!  He is so proud of being 4.  "I'm big now because I'm 4!"  "I can dress myself now because I'm 4."  etc etc.  

It's all good.  :-)  

Blake's birthday party was at Arctic Gymnastics.  Imagine 16 kids running around with crazed excitement.  It was really hard to get good pictures and I was using the fast setting on the camera.  This first picture captures the mood of the day perfectly.  See the first blur...that's Blake.  LOL Running on the trampoline "path". Video of the trampoline "path": Foam pit wars.  The older kids ended up here the whole time.  The kids wore the parents out.  Mission accomplished.  LOL

Cedric "burried" in foam.  

One of Blake's friends testing out his "climb the rope" skills.  Well, he perfected the "hang on the rope" technique.   Same friend also perfecting his balance beam routine.   And another friend tested out his bouncing and jumping skills on the ever popular trampoline.  Bounce bounce bounce...

We played a few parachute games to settle the kids down right before cake time.  

Blake was shy and didn't want to play parachute.  The teachers at Arctic Gymnastics did a great job to get him into it.  They let him play "shark" where he went under the parachute and touched someone's leg bringing them under the parachute, then both of them become sharks and so on until everyone is under the parachute.  Fun fun fun.   Video of the shark game: Ah yes...cake time!  Jumping, running, and climbing is fun; but this is what it's all about.  

Grandma Pat thought it would be a good idea to put groups of 4 candles all around the cake since it was such a big cake.  As you can see in the next picture, Blake needed some help to blow all those candles out.  

Everyone had a great time.  Blake is 4.  Next stop 6, so he can be just like his brother.  :-)