FIVE

Somehow, I blinked, and now I have two five-year-olds!! On November 29 we celebrated Caleb and Logan's fifth birthday.  We hosted a big family party at my parent's house, and I think they loved having cousins from both sides together in one place.  Logan was helping introduce Alyssa and Heidi (they've been together at a couple things before, but it's been awhile), and said something like, "These are my two best girlfriends!"  :)

We had tacos for supper, then Mike had a treasure hunt for the kids up in the hay loft.  After they were finished with that, they came in for cake and ice cream.  Then, finally, it was present time.  :)  Caleb and Logan got LOTS of Legos and they are really enjoying them!  I knew they were each getting a bucket of Legos from Grandma and Grandpa VanBeek, but unknowingly, the aunts and uncles all gave some Legos as well.  :)  At one point when planning the party I had considered doing a Lego theme, I didn't, but I guess it kinda turned out that way anyways!  I have high hopes that the Legos will be something they enjoy for years to come.

The only mishap (that I know of) was when Caleb got his fingers pinched in a door.  Mike was asking Caleb about it at the end of the night and he claims he was the one shutting the door...so, he pinched his own fingers?!  Not quite sure how that happened, I may need to ask him to do a re-enactment.  Anyways, I hear the boys scream all the time, but this was a scream that was different than normal and you knew something was actually wrong.  :(  Wasn't sure what I was going to see when he came in the room, but thankfully there was just some broken skin on one finger and the other had a big dent in it - no bones sticking out and no major amounts of blood.  Good thing we had a doctor in the house, though!  :)  The injury slowed him down for a little bit, but not too bad.

For quite a while now Caleb and Logan have been practicing headstands and handstands and Mike kept telling them he wanted them to do it for their party - Logan seems especially agile with this kind of stuff, Caleb seems more like a Steenwyk...  :)  Anyways, Caleb didn't want to perform, but Logan did and after a few tries he nailed an awesome handstand!  Held it for probably 5 seconds.

Also, afterwards Mike and I noted how well Levi did kind of fending for himself throughout the evening.  :)  I know I saw other people helping him from time to time (thank you!), but he didn't seem to mind that Mike and I were quite preoccupied most of the time.

I am going to try and do an interview with each of the boys soon.  Because, of course, I sit down to write something about them and what they're up to now at 5-years-old and my mind goes blank...