Birthday number 4 for Cooper Murphy!  What a day it will be.  We are starting off with breakfast of his choice, one chocolate pop tart and one brown sugar and cinnamon pop tart, looks oddly like what'd he'd eat every day.  Then to school with cake that looks like ice cream and a button that says birthday boy.  We will scooch on over to the McDonalds with his two best buddies, his sister and his fave aunts.  Then the icing on his birthday cake is his first baseball practice this afternoon!  I think his head may explode.

He has informed me of three things...

#1 He is choosing to skip today because that's what 4 year olds do.

#2 I was instructed to call him Birthday Boy, not Cooper, Coop, Cooper Thomas, Cooper Bear or anything that would come out that doesn't sound like Birthday Boy.

#3 He is excited for his surprise party.  This is the party he has planned and been planning on for weeks and when I tell him it won't be a surprise if he already knows about it, he tells me that it will since he won't know the exact moment when we yell surprise.  Touche Birthday Boy.