Today was Shen’s 5th Birthday and he had a Great Day! Actually he has had a couple great days since we celebrated as a family yesterday. Still he received many greetings of the day today as well and enjoyed all of it thoroughly!
In many ways this seemed like his first birthday. While we celebrated his 4th last year, he had been home such a short time with us that I’m not sure how much he really comprehended what was going on. This year however he was quite into it. Shen still is quite concerned about “stuff” and is very competitive with Kai for control of toys. Since most of the toys in the house are common shared property, we were happy about having an opportunity to give Shen a few more things that are exclusively his. We worried a bit about how Kai would handle the event as we work so hard to keep everything equal and this was clearly Shen’s Day and was the only one receiving gifts. As we anticipated, Kai did have a little trouble with this and got a bit pouty. But Shen handled things beautifully, while he was thrilled to open presents, he was amazingly gracious about sharing everything with Kai even without being asked to!
We didn’t go overboard on the gifts. We gave him a new outfit, a big truck that carries Hot Wheel cars, a fanny-pack that has a stuffed animal of the Disney character Stitch attached to it, a few Hot Wheels and the traditional Birthday Card with 5 one dollar bills in it (one for each year). Kai gave him a nice little VW MicroBus toy, Ben gave him a great little motorcycle with a rider, and Cam and Brittni gave him the DVD of Kung Fu Panda. Kung Fu Panda was a huge hit around here! Everybody was Kung Fu Fighting for quite a while after we watched that! It was actually quite sweet to see how excited Shen was when Cam and Brittni arrived. We had just seen them for Thanksgiving, but it’s still a big thing for him and Kai whenever they come over.
The other thing I really enjoyed about Shen and his birthday this year was that whenever anyone told him “Happy Birthday” he always said “Happy Birthday” back to them, and he said it with such joy and sincerity that I couldn’t help but smile every time this happened.
I saw a list of questions for a child on their birthday on another blog and thought it would be really fun to start asking them these questions each year. Here is Shen’s list...
My favorite color is Blue.
My favorite animal is a Pony.
My favorite food is oranges.
My favorite place is the Park.
When I grow up I want to be Big.
My favorite thing to do is go outside.
If I had one wish it would be A motorcycle for me on my birthday!
Happy 5th Birthday Shen, I’m so happy we are able to celebrate it with you!
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