Happy birthday to our John John! This kid makes us laugh SO hard! He basically never wears shoes anywhere (clothes are optional) and his raspy voice and buck teeth (from sucking on his blankees) go perfectly with his spunky humor and pure
awesomeness. It's so fun to be his mama! He's so easy to please -- even though we were in complete move transition during his birthday and living in the Novotel, he declared, "This is the best birthday I've ever had!" when he woke up to something as simple as balloons on his hotel room floor. Oh, how we LOVE you, John Thomas!
Rob and I were tying up move related details until late at night, but we wanted John to be able to bring Dunkin Donuts (his request) to his class on his celebration day, so Rob crossed the border to Belgium at 9pm to pick them up for our early morning.
Come Saturday -- our last day in Luxembourg -- we opened John's family gifts in our hotel room, and then headed over to ZigZag, a Luxembourgish indoor playground that specializes in birthday parties. It blew sweet little John away. He invited all his friends from around the world, specifically Cecaelia, his German bestie. It was a
blast to watch him feel so special and celebrated!
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| John, Cecaelia and daddy! |
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| John's last day at the International School of Luxembourg |
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| John, Zade and Tyler |
Later that night, just as we were zipping the final suitcase in preparation for our early morning transatlantic flight, poor Johnny stuck his fingers in the hinged-side of a heavy hotel door as it swung shut. We heard a terrible crunch and knew he needed to go straight to the hospital. An ambulance raced John and me to the Luxembourgish ER, where they determined his middle finger was broken and put him in a cast. He was so tough -- what a STUD!! He left with quite a souvenir of Lux, and never complained all six weeks while he couldn't jump in the swimming pool with his siblings.
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| Our little ladies man! |
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| The pilot signing his cast on the jumbo jet from London to Chicago |
