Jakey's big day

We spent the day as our Young Master Birthday Overlord demanded, namely, playing trains until our eyes bled and our fingers were numb.



While Isaac was in preschool, Jakey demanded that he and I spend time coloring together, and so we did. When he expressed an interest in listening to "Woody Songs," I bought the Toy Story soundtrack on iTunes and burned it to a CD so we could listen to it all day in the car. When it was naptime, I whipped out a new book to read, one featuring his brand-new Chocolate Percy train. I'll have you know that Chocolate Percy and his package cohorts were hand-picked by Isaac to give to his brother on this auspicious occasion. This means we now have 5 Percys. Because we need them.

Both the UPS and FedEx men delivered presents during nap. I wrapped as much as I could, but I ran out of paper. Behold the artfully arranged towers of unopened toys.



After nap we took Jacob for a traditional O'Neal boy birthday dinner at Red Robin. Lucky for Jake that his birthday is on a Tuesday, AKA a day when some dude in a Red Robin costume walks around from table to table and shakes his booty in the aisle. This gave King Birthday and his sidekick much amusement.



Birthday Boy also enjoyed being sung to by the entire waitstaff, though his brother was being a right old turd by that point. Isaac flatly refused to even sniff his dinner, yet he was happy to help with Jacob's birthday sundae. Imagine that. Jacob's impressive sharing skillz are shown here, where he not only tolerated but even encouraged such injustice.



Then we came home for birthday cake and presents. Here is the Jake sporting a small fraction of his swag, namely this Mater chair from Mamaw and Dadaw and some killer blue dinosaur rainboots from us.



Out of the several dozen times he heard it today, here are two renditions of "Happy Birthday to Jacob". The first was performed at Red Robin after dinner tonight; the second was performed at our house immediately following. I will warn you that he himself sings along for the whole song at home, because he is really that awesome.