Jacob turned 5 on our trip to Florida. I was a little torn about what little about we actually did to celebrate Jacob's birthday a year ago. He doesn't talk about things like kids his age do. We can only assume that most kids are probably really excited as their birthday gets closer, and start talking about what they will get for presents, their birthday cake, etc., Jacob doesn't do any of that. That isn't to say that he doesn't get excited about birthdays, it's just that we don't know just how much he understands about birthdays and he doesn't communicate his expectations to us.
I kind of took advantage of Jacob's inability to communicate any of his expectations or wants for his birthday last year by not doing much. We took a present with us to give him on his actual birthday and we left a present at home to give him once we got back because it was a little bulky to take with us. We didn't worry about a birthday cake or anything like that because Jacob doesn't like to eat those types of things.
But the night of his birthday I felt a little guilty that we hadn't done anything for him and he was really interested in a candle that was burning when we went to dinner at Justin's brother's place in Orlando. So we sang happy birthday to him and let him blow out the candle a couple times. He loves to blow out candles.
After we got back home from our vacation I took his annual birthday picture with the blue elephant.
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