We're Thankful For... Jet

"When you're a Jet, you're a Jet all the way From your first bassinet to your last dying day."

 

Just like Jet's birthday last year, we chose food he'd like for his birthday. However, he got hold of one of Nichole's stuffed animals before dinner and that's all he wanted. We tried to convince him to make the chicken "fly" over to the couch (toss it) for while we ate dinner but then he got the idea to flap the chicken's wings over and over and over... and over and over and over... and over and over and over... Who needs food when you can make the chicken's wings flap a lot?

Everyone else had eaten plenty by the time Jr. was able to convince Jet to let him take the chicken to "eat" its own food. Then Jet ate. Phew. I wasn't going to give him cake and ice cream until he ate decent food.

Here's what we ate:

Jet likes pasta and cheese so we had one-pot cheeseburger pasta. He likes to eat eat eat apples and bananas. I had to hide the bananas after I brought them home from the store because I knew they wouldn't last until his birthday dinner otherwise. He also likes carrots I cook in the instant pot (not so hard as raw carrots, yay). Jet also has a habit of tearing into my fresh bread before it sits long enough for me to put it away. Here's an example:

This was a text conversation with Jeremy one day-

Later that day after Jeremy got home-

Three. He pulled chunks off of three loaves of French bread. So for his birthday dinner we had bread that we could pull chunks off of.

He ate enough dinner so we had cake and ice cream (Jr. made the cake and frosted it for Jet. Thanks, Jr.).

We thought since Jet did such a good job of blowing out Jr. Jr.'s candles when it was his birthday last month, Jet would have no problem for his own birthday. Nope. It took him so long to blow out his own candles and their were less candles than he blew out on Jr. Jr.'s cake. Ha Ha Ha Ha. We sang "Happy Birthday" to Jet then waited for him to blow out his candles but he couldn't get it, so Jet started singing "Happy Birthday" to himself so we all joined in. Then he couldn't get the candles blown out so he started singing "Happy Birthday" to himself again and we all joined in. This cycle happened several times. We laughed a lot.

After cake and ice cream (Brookie ice cream since Jet likes both brownies and cookies), he opened presents and a card from grandparents.

CoComelon presents! I didn't get good pictures.

 

There was a lot of laughing for Jet's birthday. Fun family time.

Happy Thanksgiving!