Yes, it's true. Virg is 4 for the 4th this year. Technically he was born on the 5th of July, but he was well on his way by the time the fireworks were going off on Independence Day, so we are counting it. Virg is becoming more explicit about how he wants things to go this year, and the word was: no singing the Happy Birthday song. We may say it, we may write it, but absolutely, unequivocally, no song. Everyone was able to acquiesce to that request, and therefore, things went relatively smoothly. That is until brother Emmett got going on the red cupcake frosting. It was pretty gruesome, but it stayed on the splat mat so all ended well.
Virg gets both Thomas the Train and Thomas the Friend for this birthday party.
Virg is learning the "open-the-card-first" rule. Who came up with that one?!
Grandpa Michael and Virg setting up his new horse race track. Virg is betting on number 9.
Emmett is really getting into the birthday cake thing - literally.
(Daddy would probably caption this photo with some sort of zombie reference, but Mommy respectfully declines.)
