Fiveorama!

Spencer celebrated his 5th birthday with his friends and classmates last Sunday at Westgate Lanes. Daddy designed the invitation and as always did a great job!

Between his best friends, seven classmates, grandparents, the kids' parents and a few siblings thrown in, there were probably 40 people there. The kids had a blast and I think the adults enjoyed it, too. You can see some good pictures over at Steffani's blog, too.

Funny story about the cake. Since I baked a cake on his actual birthday, we decided to buy a cake for the party instead of doing one of our classic creations. We took some pictures of bowling themed cakes to the HEB bakery and were expecting to have a couple of bowling pins drawn on the cake. We were quite surprised to see the crazy 3D cake! The kids were all begging for the bowling pins (they were definitely better to look at!).

At the end of the party the bowling alley presented Spencer with a real bowling pin and all the kids signed it. Then Spencer handed out cute bowling pin cookies and thanked his friends for coming.

 

We had a small family gathering at our house afterwards and Spencer opened his gifts. I think it's interesting that kids don't usually open gifts at their party these days. It definitely makes things easier on many levels, but aren't the kids missing out a little on seeing their friend open the gift they picked out? And learning that it's okay to watch another person open gifts? But I digress...

And let me tell ya, if you need a gift idea for a 5-yr-old boy, a good old fashioned Whoopie Cushion is the way to go. Spencer got one from Piper and Beckett and I would give anything to have a video of the first time he sat on it. It made me think of this classic for some reason. But after the initial "what?!" he laughed and laughed and laughed all evening as he got various guests to plop down on it. "Mommy, isn't this so funny? Mommy I love this Whoopie Cushion. Isn't it funny Mama?" Comedy gold right there!

It was a fun day and we were reminded once again of how blessed our little guy is to have so many people who love him.

Spencer Turns 3

We had a great time celebrating Spencer's 3rd birthday today. First, we had Day 3 of preschool. It was not an easy drop-off again (this time Daddy took him), but the teachers said he had a really good day. We made pumpkin muffins this morning to share with his classmates and they did some sort of birthday ritual where they lit three candles and talked about how the earth has circled the sun three times since he was born. When we arrived, he was sitting on a little bench with two girls his age and they were singing a song with the teacher. It was pretty darn cute.

We told Spencer that we had a surprise planned for him after school. He kept guessing all sorts of things on the way there. When we arrived at Westgate Lanes and he realized we were going bowling, he giggled and acted very excited. He has mentioned a few times lately that he wants to try bowling, so we figured this would be a fun memory. It was no surprise that he took a few minutes to warm up to the idea, but once he did he had a blast.

 

 

   

After bowling, we came home and much to Spencer's delight he had two more birthday presents waiting for him. We gave him a bright green scooter and a pop-up book. Daddy can't wait to take him to the park tomorrow to practice on the scooter.

We went to Red's Porch for dinner, then got back in time to take our traditional self-portrait at 6:28 PM to commemorate the time of his birth. Happy birthday, Spencer. You are a gift to us!