Davis Turns 4

After two months of trying so, so hard to have a birthday, it was finally his turn! On March 4th Davis turned 4! He's the last birthday in "birthday season" at our house, and at this age it was a little agonizing to him. His big day came along and it did not disappoint!

The day before he got his special birthday date with Papa Ray and Grandma. This is such a fun tradition and the first time he's gotten to do this- he was ecstatic. I was in the middle of zoom parent teacher conferences when they came to get him, which was no problem. He bolted right out the door as soon as they pulled into the driveway. They took him to Target to pick out his own presents- which is possibly one of the best things that's ever happened to him. (And now I'm slightly nervous to take him back to Target...)

His birthday morning I had strung up some red crepe paper and wrapped all his presents in red. Also, not coincidentally, all his presents were actually red themselves. He got a new Spider-Man costume, which he mostly liked, and then went back to wearing his super worn out one. He spent the whole day playing with his new toys. Nana, Papa and Heidi came later that night to give him presents and it was basically the best day he could ever have imagined.

The night of his birthday was actually Chase's basketball tournament, but Davis didn't really care that we waited until the next night to do his cake. Lindsay really outdid herself on this one- I asked her if she could make it look like Bei Bei and it turned out so cute! As soon as Davis saw it he yelled "It's Bei Bei! Win-see! Did you make that for me?" He kept admiring it, talking about how it was Bei Bei and saying over and over "Win-see made that for Davis!" He talked about this cake for days and told everyone we saw about it. Hickman's stayed to sing and eat cake with us (it was delicious- it was a cookie dough cake with boiled milk frosting) and Davis loved running around with his brothers and buddy Will.

 At 4 years old:

• 41 inches (70th percentile) 35 pounds (50th percentile) 
• Knows his shapes, letters, colors and can count up to 20...then skips to 100
• He's super into avengers stuff and was so happy to get some new costumes for his birthday. Spider-man is his favorite.
• He picks three books that are his favorite for a few weeks at a time...they slowly rotate and morph into different books but we read the same books over and over again. He's got the current ones completely memorized.
• He loves to play with other kids. Every morning we go outside and he sees if Will or Ollie can play (most of the time we are watching Ollie, which has been so fun). He also loves to play with Mark and James Bacciocco. He's super social.
• He has the funniest, deep little voice. It's kind of raspy and so endearing.
• He's a champ at wearing masks- not that he wears it totally appropriately all the time, but he doesn't complain about it and puts it right on like it's no big deal.
• He asks for pizza for dinner every night. And sometimes yells/sobs that WE ARE HAVING PIZZA, even though we are not. He just really loves pizza.
• Totes Bei Bei around a lot. Sleeps with him every single night and nap. Refers to him as a member of the family. Bei Bei is looking pretty worn out at this point, but Davis doesn't mind one bit. We love that panda!