Saku's Fantastic Fourth Birthday

Our week started out nicely as we celebrated Saku's 4th birthday. It was fitting to start the birthday celebration early in the morning since he arrived into our family right before 8 am on June 17th. 

Somehow he had ended up in our bed during the night. This happens very rarely nowadays. When he climbed into our bed around 4 am, he whispered "there are some spiderman ABCs in the stairs". We had hung a spiderman themed "Happy Birthday" banner on the stairs. 

We made a simple breakfast of Finnish style sandwiches and orange juice to take to our birthday boy. We wanted to keep the tradition of breakfast in bed, but figured that he wasn't going to eat much as the presents would get him so excited.

He was fast asleep as we walked into the room singing "paljon onnea vaan". It took him a while to wake up but he woke up with a smile on his face. He knew exactly what was going on.

Birthday presents included a batman t shirt and spiderman water bottle that he had asked for six months ago. I told him that I would buy it but he had to wait until his birthday. And we did just that. He got a Cars book and Transformers work book. A BYU sweatshirt from ukki and mummi.

Our big present was legos. We thought that he would love being creative and building things. We bought mostly generic legos and one set of Ironman 3 legos. Since the generic legos came from Craig's list, we ended up with a dragon castle as well. Troy spent two hours putting it together and Saku and James destroyed it, as part of their playing, in five minutes. We will not be building it again like that. Sadly I did not take picture of Troy's master piece.

Orange juice is a bit of a treat in our family so he was happy to wake up to it.

I asked Saku if he wanted to have a birthday party or just spend time as a family. He decided against a party, which did not break my heart. 

We did invite James and the girls over for a play date so Saku could play with his best friend. Saku has had two life long friends, all of his four years; James and Cameron. Cameron moved so we are even more grateful for James' friendship. 

James and Saku play well together and have a great time so I knew that James' presence would make Saku very happy. James surprised Saku with a Superman cape and a Superman water bottle.

These boys play SO well together. I think it safe to say that Heather and I are both very grateful that they have each other as a friend. 

Saku's birthday dinner request was "bread, cheese and ham" so we had sandwiches and corn on the cob for dinner. This boy was so easy to please on his birthday!

When isi got home, we enjoyed a brownie cake and some sparklers.

We ended the night with a movie night of videos of Saku. He did not enjoy the very first video of him crying at the hospital just minutes after his birth, but liked watching himself on the big screen. It sure made me miss that little baby Saku and brought all those memories of learning to be a mother. 

Just before bedtime, we found a box that was delivered in front of our front door from grandma! Saku got two new Mickey Mouse Club House movies and two Mickey shirts. They were a hit!

Saku, you are amazing! Pretty much each night, isi and I go to bed and say something along the lines "man he is just amazing/awesome/funny" "he is so big now"  and "i love him so much".