Peanut's Birthday

Little Peanut has been pretty excited about here birthday. And here it is. Princess themed. Tangled themed really.

Here's the birthday girl:


And the new coat from Nanny that got opened a little early:

Rye's Frist Birthday

Little Rye turned one and we had a little party. He loved the helium balloons


Although he loved the cupcake just as much! Gimmme gimme gimme


Stage 1


Stage 2


Mission Complete! What a mess

Happy 7th Birthday

BigE is the big 7 today. He awoke to find an obviously wrapped composite hockey stick from us. However there still seems to be nothing like unwrapping stuff.

as we headed downstairs BigE found the Playmobil police station he'd been eyeing

Several police accessory sets

And the RC helicopter. It was a big hit once it got opened.

Peanut's First Birthday

Last week it was Peanut's First Birthday. We had a little party for her. She was missing her only friend around her age. But I think the cake made up for it in the end. Here's the birthday girl with her party dress on

We opened the gifts. She had lots of help


Then it was on to the pizza which she promptly ate. No problem getting Peanut to eat. She might have had as much as her brother. Then came the Birthday cake

and boy was it good!
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By 6:30 most of the kids were having a melt down and bid everyone goodnight.

The Birthday Party

BigE turned 5, almost, with his Birthday party today. He's been excited over the party for days. The kids were over to dress up as pirates. They had a good time with the pirate entertainers for about an hour. A couple of the kids were scared by the pirate.

Most loved the pirate dress up.


Then it was time to wolf down some pirate party cake.


Followed up an enormous pile of gifts. Sadly nobody took Dada's suggestion that BigE needed a Wii, new laptop, or Lexus seriously. He did get a kiddie laptop (something like this) but no Dell Mini. Oh well there is always Santa!

Pirate Ship

Here is BigE's Pirate birthday cake. It took some work and the creative inspiration of four people but we got it sailing, sort 'o speak.

Two 9x13" pans of chocolate cake, a couple of tubes of chocolate icing, a tub of white icing (for the ocean), some PlayMobil Pirate guys, and two packs of small crispy crunch bars that were on sale for 67 cents each.

Some notes:
- That is a real piece of wood coming out of the bow of the ship (Sailing readers what the heck is that called?). I sanded it down smooth and wrapped the cake end in saran wrap that was mostly hidden by icing.
- The Playmobil pieces are mostly from a Pirate accessory kit that looks like this (amazon.com) but I don't think was a 1/3 of that price.
- The masts are skewers
- The crows nest is the bottom half of an ice cream cone
- The plank is a cadbury thin chocolate bar
- The guns where some kind of round waffer that had chocolate on one end.