Elijah, my now four year old, was running around the house today singing happy birthday to himself. It is really understandable that he thinks that his birthday hasn't ended yet considering how many celebrations he has had.
Before we left for Florida we had a celebration with family and a few friends. Elijah has always been a train fan... and like all birthday celebrations in the Grooms' home we have a tradtional theme verse for the celebration. To my surprise "train" is in the Bible so a train party it was.
We had train cookies for party favors... notice our theme verse.
We had a Train Birthday Cookie cake.
We had Train decorations.
We even celebrated with a picnic at a local park where trains drive by throughout the day and there is a big red caboose to climb on.
Also in our family tradition we had a special time of prayer over Elijah. And recorded in his book some of the things people prayed for him. So sweet.
All of that fun was on the 9th... but we left for FL that day, on the 10th he went to a church in Jacksonville who just so happened to be celebrating everyone's birthday so there were cupcakes, a bucket, and sidewalk chalk for everyone.
On the 12th, his actual birthday, he woke up to this.....
Played hard at the beach all day....
cuddled with daddy....
and woke up from his afternoon nap to this...
saw God's "birthday" rainbow on the beach for him...
and even witnessed some late night "birthday" fireworks!
Also later that week at Rick and Rasha's we sang the song again and had cupcakes and he played all day in his new pool...
Elijah is a curious 4 year old. Who currently loves to tie up any type of ribbon, string, or rope to about anything... i am constantly walking in a room and finding something tied together that shouldn't be. He is smart, brave, and creative.
He still talks about his "office"... where everything thing is somehow better. He loves crafts, projects, reading books, playing outside, the water hose, and still notices every "bob, bob" (form of heavy machinery). He is excited about His new brother or sister and i think still thinks that he or she may come out brown since we had been talking about our little Africa baby for so long. He has actually mentioned several times he wants "too many" sister's and brothers. :)
My prayer for Elijah is 1 Timothy 4:7 that he would not listen to silly thoughts or argue over silly things but instead train himself to think like God and be like God. Most of all i pray that he sees Jesus for who He really is at a young age and falls madly in love with Him!
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