Our Hero Turns Four

It's official.  Our Hero is four.  It really does seem like no time at all has passed since he arrived.  The other night, Julie and Ted were remembering how they would bring him into the big bed and with him in between them, sing Joe Joe Joe Your Boat to the tune of Row Row Row Your Boat.  This would be in those months when Julie at least really thought that we would just never sleep a full night through again, and that this was just something parents didn't talk about, but was assumed all the same.  What did we know?  Certainly not that those days would be a blip, gone in blink, just like all the days that have followed since Joe flung open the door to our hearts and came on in to stay forever.

Joe got to wear the super cool NYC subway shirt with the four on it that Ted got for him on a business trip to NYC.

He grew like two inches in five months!

Mr. 40 Inches-40 Pounds-and 4 Years Old is now rockin' the booster seat.  This means that his sister is trippin' over his old car seat which has a cup holder.  OMG.

The crown came home from school.  The hand is blocking any assistance offered by Clara.

He blew the candle out all by himself. It's the first year he's been able to do that.