The birthday festivities

This handsome guy turned five, and he's not shy about admitting it.  Grocery clerks, construction workers down the street, lifeguards at the swimming pool---Seb lets them all know that he had a birthday and we went camping and there was a stream there and he chose orange juice cake with fresh mint leaves for his birthday cake and so on and so on and so on. 

Dirty face from helping plant flowers---he loves to help with "grown-up work"

Awhile ago he fell off his back and knocked out his two front teeth. Well, he knocked them backwards, and the dentist took them out a few weeks later at his checkup. Seb screamed and cried during the pulling, but he quickly recovered his aplomb, and was soon telling everyone (grocery clerks . . . construction workers . . . lifeguards . . . ), "Look at my gums! Soon the teeth will grow back in, in one or two years."  He's still very handsome.

He for some reason started holding up his fingers whenever he tells someone he's five, which would be fine except he's never done that for any age before, so he doesn't really know how, and he always ends up with four or three fingers up and then stares at his hand awkwardly until he finally figures out how to get it right.

Seb still loves sprinklers and carwashes.  He got another sprinkler for his birthday---this one has five coverage patterns it can rotate through.  He also got a set of straws which can be put together in various configurations to do funny things like drinking from several cups at once or looping around your arm.  He makes tiny "water parks" with them too. 

This straw was letting them drink water and hot cocoa at the same time.  "How is it?"  "Kind of watery."

(Abe benefits from Seb's presents as well)

Sebby is clever and surprising and funny and inquisitive and adventurous.  He gets more fun every year and we're so glad we have him!!