Mr. Tate's Birthday

Tate turned 4 yesterday! It's amazing to me that it's been that long since his birth, because it seems like only yesterday.

We decorated his bedroom door see Family Tradition HERE), so this is what he woke up to.

It definately started the day off right for him...

My Mom invited us over for lunch and then both her and my sister surprised Tate with a party. They invited one friend, Allyssa (my cousin). They wanted to keep it small in ways of friends but to at least have one kid there. It worked out perfect for Tate! He was happy to have Allyssa there, and happy to get a ton of attention from the other adults (Grandpa, Grandma, Christina, and Thomas)

Christina went to the dollar store and bought Tate a bunch of little toys and wrapped them all so that he had a million presents. Here are some of them...


My parents gave Tate a microscope.
He is totally into science things so this is perfect for him. Then my Dad sat down with him and taught him how it worked.

When Bryan got home later that day, we had another little family party for him with cake and more presents from us. We gave him some more science related gifts. A bug vacuum and habitat (He immediately found a cricket for it),

and a rock tumbler (he's been wanting this forever).

Then Bryan spent the rest of the evening with him helping to start the rock tumbling process.