Alex is officially five.

We kept him home from school on his birthday, something I hope will become a yearly tradition.

Donuts for breakfast, pizza for lunch, chinese food for dinner, and an ice cream cake for desert. That child knows what he likes, and he got it all that day.

We went to Chuck-E-Cheese, an experience that I expected to take hours and involve a ton of activity, but instead was rather subdued and we were in and out of there in an hour. Twenty bucks worth of coins, and Alex got a few squishy bugs and dinosaurs.

I still can’t believe he’s five. Five. My baby is growing up, and it’s happening so fast.