Happy 4th Birthday Fletcher!

Our sweet Fletcher turned 4 yesterday!

He's been counting down the days until his real birthday all month long.  Remember we celebrated at the beginning of the month with all of our family??  We did it based on convenience at the time, but now I'm so thankful to have gotten the chance to celebrate early with all the current COVID-19 restrictions in place.

We started a birthday countdown and he's been coloring in the boxes in every morning.  He woke up yesterday to presents, requested a day full of all of his favorite things and picked the menu.  He has very little clue that the whole country has hit pause on life and I'm thrilled for that.  He knows that things are germy out and about right now so we are staying home and staying healthy.  He's adjusted easily to this new norm and is pumped to have everyone home to play with.  It's good to be 4!

Our 4 Favorite Things about Fletcher:

Mom:
1. He's a foodie.  He enjoys eating, baking, grocery shopping and all things food so much.

2. Fletcher is generous with compliments.  He is always telling me my food is the best, I'm the best mom he could ever dream of or that his day was the best day ever.

3. He loves people.  He talks to everyone when we are out and about.  He's very friendly, loving and is so social.  I think he's going to LOVE school in the Fall.

4. Fletcher is really easy going.  He's positive, flexible and is usually just happy to be along for the ride.


Dad:
1. Fletcher comes up with the sweetest sayings - You're the best Dad I could ever dream of. 

2. He's a hugger!

3. He loves to talk, share his feelings, his loves, his thoughts, what he wants to do and loves to tell us random things.

4. Fletcher has a great imagination - he acts like Superman, becomes a Biker Bird on bike rides, etc.


Olive:
1. He has funny voices.  My favorite is his O-ba-doe voice.

2. Fletcher is SO silly.

3. My favorite thing to play with him is Barbies.

4. I love to play basketball with him and biker birds.


 Here are the highlights of his birthday yesterday:

Olive wrote Fletcher a monster truck book.  It was so cute!!

He woke up ready to open gifts!

The fire/police station was a big hit.

 A lunch of FOURS for the four year old.

We played outside and rode bikes.

He's mastered showing that he's FOUR.

He got this monster truck arena with kinetic sand.  They had the best time playing with it outside.

This part makes me feel all the feels right now...

Fletcher requested his favorite - cheeseburgers - for his birthday dinner.  He wanted Kevin to grill for him.  He had no clue that hamburger meat has been hard to find in stores and people are going to great lengths to find it.  We have plenty of meal options, plenty to eat, but hamburger, toilet paper and cleaning supplies have been hard to find.  I said several prayers this week that we'd be able to pull off a special birthday at home and that he wouldn't feel like he missed anything.

Kevin did a grocery store run this week and found two packages of hamburger meat!  This was after multiple trips over the last few weeks without finding any.  It was such a sweet reminder to us that God cares about the little things in our lives that are important to us.  Fletcher didn't realize that hamburgers felt like a bit of a luxury right now, but Kevin and I knew that this was a blessing for sure!

Fletcher loved all the birthday festivities.  He requested chocolate cupcakes and we did two different icing flavors for fun - chocolate and Oreo.  Both were delicious!

We are So thankful for this sweet boy!!  I can't wait to see what is in store for him this year.

And I'll wrap up with a throwback to sweet baby Fletcher.  Seems like just yesterday :)