My kindergar-nerd is 5.
It’s been a big week with his first full week of school EVER and the birthday celebration.

Ivan is Fivin’ like a pro.

This is his birthday cake. It’s green and decorated with Mario figures. He says we should do 3 cakes – A Pokemon one, a Spongebob one and a Mario one. We’ll see what happens. Since they could be small and just decorated with existing small plastic toys, it’s possible I’ll make/buy 2 more small cakes over the next week or so.

Ezri declared that Ivan’s birthday, “Smells like Hanukkah.” We don’t light candles or matches very often. I like that for her a lit match’s smell reminds her of the Hanukkah.

Ezri wanted to be in a photo too. It’s hard when it’s your little brother’s birthday. Though she does get to play with some of his presents. She took him around the school yard in the morning pointing out to anyone who’d listen that it was her brother’s birthday. She physically picked him up and carried him around for some of this.