Noah's Birthday (Again) & 4th of July Weekend

So we celebrated the big boy turning 5 for the last time this past weekend.  We went to Chili's for dinner and at the end he was very insistent that he should get some ice cream and be sung to.  "Pleaseeee...I'm the birthday boy".  So of course the waitress was happy to oblige.  One scoop of vanilla ice cream or "frosting" as Noah likes to call it....and she rounded up every waiter/waitress in the place to sing.  Shy boy tucked his head with a big grin and they were all commenting how cute he was.  Then the bartender comes over with a wine glass full of "champagne" for him (ginger ale).  As you can see in the pics he was loving it:

Saturday he had karate on his birthday which Master D let him choose whatever he wanted to do in class.  Played on the water slide when we got home and had some yummy dinner that night with Nana :o).  Mom and I had to sneak out to see Eclipse...which was great!  Sunday more water slide and then off to see OVO (Cirque du Soleil)  It was awesome!  I think KA that we saw in Vegas might have been a little better, but mainly because of the different stage options that were available to them.  Grabbed some dinner on the way to fireworks in Waterbury and then home to sleep.  Monday was a nice day off from work.  Kylie went to play at a friends house while Noah conned me into going on the water slide with him.  Lots of fun!  He had karate that night and ended up with a private lesson as no one else in his class showed up.  He thought it was pretty funny when Master D had me join Noah in class at the end for nun-chuck drills.  The couple parents that showed up for the next class thought it was pretty funny too....hahaha.  Oh well....back to reality!!