Kevin's Fifth Birthday!!

It was really hard accepting that our baby boy Kevin is turning five!  I think this hit us harder as parents than having our oldest turn seven.  Something about turning five just seems old.  Like he's really a kid now rather than a toddler or preschooler.

Kevin could absolutely not wait for his birthday.  He wanted a Minecraft birthday cake with lots of spiders and bad guys.  This is a video game that he plays with Tyler on the Xbox.  He just loves making buildings or other things and then filling those buildings with spiders or bad guys to do karate on them.  So, for his birthday, this is what we attempted.

Adam was in Arizona for a work conference so Grandma Thimmesch came out to help keep us company and have some fun. She was also a lifesaver when it came to designing his cake and helping me get a bunch of craft projects done for various school events coming up.

The day he turned five, we took a few quick pictures.  He wanted pictures of lots of different faces.  So, we took a lot of pictures and he made all the faces he could.  Here are a few that we took.

He really had a rough day as much as I didn't want him to, but he was tired and exhausted from a couple of late nights and early mornings.  We started off with chocolate chip pancakes in the shapes of "K" and "5" and Grandma found some candles so we could all sing him happy birthday.

Around lunch time we all headed out to the airport to go get daddy. Kevin was melting at this point, so he earned a special walk with me into the airport so we could talk about behavior.  That time alone seemed to help him a lot, and the excitement of getting to see daddy come down the escalators was great.  Especially when he realized that they matched with red sweaters!

Everyone was hungry and tired, so daddy took us out to lunch before heading home for naps and quiet time.  We went to Red Robin because Kevin's lunch request was french fries and ice cream.  Since it was his birthday, we figured why not and off we went.  His brothers were pretty excited because they scored some ice cream too since it was Kevin's requested lunch.  

His present requests this year cracked me up.  He really wanted a roll of easel paper, 72 pencils from Office Depot that he saw a couple of weeks before, and some crayons.  For weeks all I heard about was whether I had already purchased or would be purchasing his pencils.  I really thought this kid was losing it but we got him the pencils he kept asking for.  It turns out that they are his new best toy.  Every day he plays with them like they are action figures and refuses to let us sharpen them.  

He hasn't done much with the easel paper as he keeps unrolling and then rerolling it, but he tells me he is just thinking up his plan. So time will tell what he comes up with.  But for now, he is thrilled with his pencils and it was such an oddball request I thought I would write about it.

For dinner we had pizza and cake!  He didn't have a party per se this year but we did invite two of his friends over so they could play.  It had been ages since we had seen them and he really wanted to play with them.  All of us adults were just exhausted but thankfully the kids were able to entertain themselves for the most part.  All five of them just play so well together!

And now pictures of his cake lighting and his cake.  He loved it and I am glad he got the theme he wanted.  And lots of creepy spiders.  :)