I Can Spell Lennon

Lennon will be three this week. His real birthday is Wednesday, but he is having a party on Saturday. Sounds like quite an ordeal with about thirty people total! I've never been here for one of his parties, but I understand that there are two parents for every child or two, so that is how it mounts up.

I found a spider man sit and spin that I am wrapping in an Incredible Hulk bath poncho and tying with orange ribbon for the party. He loves super heroes and orange and green. He also loves to spin around and become Super Lennon. Of course I need to do this also when I become Super Gramma! (Believe me I am a pretty amazing Super Gramma!) I even found an orange fish to write the birthday wish on and hang from the poncho.

I had more fun with his regular birthday. I chose one thing he will outgrow, one he will grow into and one he can grow himself. I put it all into a bag and cut out his name in one long card on orange paper. He can spell his name with the Mickey Mouse Song. Len--non--I can spell Lennon. Ang--ell--I can spell Angell. Lennon Angell...... He can do his address to the Superman Song and it is very dramatic! 164-New- found- street. Canton! North Carolina!! USA..... When my daughter was young I discovered if you can sing, you can learn anything at any age!

I found a shirt and pants set that say, Conserve water, drink chocolate milk. He will actually think that is as funny as I do. He calls his chocolate milk coffee and likes his with a touch of whip cream and a bit of caramel drizzled over it. This is what he will out grow.
I bought him an amaryllis to grow himself. He will love watering it and watching it grow and they grow pretty fast and are pretty spectacular.

And I bought him a book he will grow into over time. Right now he will appreciate it, but later on, I expect it will be even more interesting for him. It is a book on Barack Obama by Jonah Winter, with beautiful pictures and a simple straightforward biography. He, like his Gramma, loved Barack Obama from the first time he saw him and then when Obama had his picture taken in Metropolis, Illinois with the Superman statue, he was totally sold. (Hey, I know adults who have voted for people based on less knowledge than this.)

Lennon went with his Daddy and I to vote this year and he pushed the buttons that chose Obama. He was so proud of himself that he had to tell everyone, even before we left the polls. "I voted for Barack Obama! Yes We Can!" His little fist rising into the air with all the enthusiasm of one of Hitler's little boy scouts, but this time on the side of goodness and light. He will love the Obama book. It talks about what makes a man strong.

Children give us a chance to be the best we can be, to make every moment count because they do. Everything is important to a two year old and I am looking forward to the important things in a three year old's world next.