Happy Birthday to Will

Will had a great birthday. When he woke up he saw his dinosaur shirt hanging on his closet door. The first thing he said was..."Is it June 3? Is it my dinosaur party day?" I asked him what he wanted for breakfast....

"cake"....uhm, this is not Bill Cosby's house...try again.

"cheese eggs"....that's more like it. I usually make it with cheddar cheese, but he really LOVES it the way Mike makes it with Velveeta. So since he was king for the day, I made it that way. As I was tearing some to put on the top, they were shaped like little triangles, so I told him they were dinosaur teeth. He got a kick out of that and couldn't believe that there were "real" dinosaur teeth on his Daddy-cheese-eggs.

His cake turned out very cute. Though I did notice when I picked it up I failed to tell them to put "Happy Birthday Will"....but as you can see, there really wasn't any room. Those little plastic dinosaurs roar. This is a cupcake cake from Walmart. We discovered these cakes a few birthday party's ago. I love it, you simply pull a cupcake off....no messing cutting. I was really impressed with how much detail there was.

These are the foofoo cute cookies. They are from Weddingcookie.com Laura Poland, the owner was great to work with. I emailed a copy of his invitation, and she customized the colors. They come already wrapped in clear cellophane and a matching ribbon! I simply put these in a little dinosaur tin bucket with a balloon tied to them for the favor. The cookies are amazingly good! I will definitely be ordering some in October for the Princess birthday I am sure Livi will want.

Mike sent Will a video of him singing Will happy birthday. He wanted to see his "daddy birthday song" while everyone was there. He knows how to manipulate the laptop to play it over and over.

The party went very well. We had a bouncey house that a neighbor owns. She offered to let us use it Saturday morning. I am glad I took her up on it, it wore the kids out! The dinosaur dig was a big hit, but very messy. The sand dried out, so it is now spread all over the porch. Oh well....it all in good fun and a bithday I am sure Will will remember.

Once the party was almost over, there were still a few friends from his school here. I knew one present from his Aunt Mary and Uncle Anselmo was this (this is the picture from the PBK website)....so he opened it and they played with it for almost an hour. I was hoping to burn off some of that sugar they had consumed all day!

It worked on Will, he was exhausted and went right to sleep. Livi on the other hand, didn't go to sleep until almost 9:30.....these are my kids who are usually in bed asleep by 7:30!

Note to self: After action report:

* The only thing I would do differently is move the sand activity off the porch.

*Also, a big thanks to nice neighbor J who I asked to take pictures. She loved playing with my new camera. I was thankful to be able to run the party and not worry about pictures. This deployment has shown me that I need to ask for help when I need it.