Finding the Forseters: Finley Turns 4

November 16, 2009 to November 2013 - Finley is four!

Thank you, Aunt Caitlin, for collaging these photos of Finley from the past four years on or near his birthday.

We kicked off Finley's train themed party with some wonderful outside time since it was surprisingly decent out for November in New England. Finley greeted his guests and everyone had fun bounding around outside. We invited some family friends, a few friends from his first Acton preschool, and his classmates at his current school. All in all, about 22 kids and 25+ adults, yikes! Good thing we could be outside to start!

After about 30 or 40 minutes, we headed inside to the basement to have music with a former colleague of mine who teaches music in Newton. Finley was excited and sat right down with his pals.

Here's a close up of the cute shirt I had made on Etsy.

Dagny woke up just in time and GG brought her outside right as we were heading inside, she loved the music as much as the big kids.

Finley took being the center of attention better than I had anticipated, though he remained modest :)

Paula brought instruments, too, and the drums were a bit hit (literally and figuratively).

The music fun ended with a traditional "Happy Birthday."

The cake was perfect and totally allergy safe since I had it made by a woman who makes cakes out of her peanut-sesame-etc. free kitchen. Thanks to Gabi and Dave for picking it up before the party!!

The marble cake was moist and yummy and I even let the birthday boy have seconds. After everyone had cake, the kids had a blast playing around in our basement and upstairs playroom.

We were so proud of how Finley handled all the attention and managed to completely enjoy himself throughout such an overstimulating experience! After saying goodbye to all his friends, opening a couple of gifts, and eating dinner - Finley asked for some much needed downtime and GG happily obliged with some truck videos on youtube.

We snapped a few other shots right before bed as Finley donned his new Bruins jersey from my brother's family - he LOVES this jersey and wore it all day Sunday and even requested putting it back on over his PJs after getting out of the bath!