Zach's 4th Birthday

Well, my baby turned 4... it sure doesn't feel like 4 years has passed since he was born, but I have to say every year I am more and more grateful that it is this year rather than the day he was born. He has come such a long way from those early scary days, and with every passing day I think i forget a little more and a little more just how scary it was, and only remember how great he is now. He is the best little boy any parents could ask for. So loving, and happy, and genuinely worried for people when they are sad. He is a good listener, so fun & outgoing, and becoming quite a funny person. He has the cutest personality and now that he is talking so much you can really see it coming out, and he says just the funniest things. He brings such a joy to our lives, and I just cant even begin to think of what our lives would be like without him.

Enjoying a yummy birthday breakfast of French Toast & Banana's

Opening up his birthday card's from great grandma grandpa trout & great great grandma herran!

For his Birthday day we made some cupcakes and took them to our favorite nurses at the NICU!! I am so mad I didn't get any pictures while we were there! But they were SO excited to see us, especially Zach and see how great he looked, how well he is talking and just generally how healthy he is now!! We are so grateful for these nurses and doctors... not a holiday, birthday or general milestone Zach achieves goes by without me thinking of them... without them Zach wouldn't be here today.

Afterwards we went to go see Despicable Me... Zach has been asking and asking and asking to see this since he first saw the previews, and it was SUCH a cute movie!! Then we went out to Brick Oven for some yummy dinner! Zach enjoyed his yummy pizza and they even sang Happy Birthday to him, and brought him a ice cream sundae with a sucker in it!

Then on the way home we stopped by Toys R Us so he could pick out something fun with his birthday money he got from Great Grandma & Great Grandpa Trout and Great Great Grandma Herran! He picked out this Iron Man 3 pack he has had his eye on the last few times we've stopped by.. he was in HEAVEN!