Early Birthday Party

I was trying to be ahead of the game this year. Well that doesn't always go as planned now does it. If you recall I was also pregnant on Caden's 4th birthday and I didn't want him to get the short end of the stick again. So I thought I was being smart and planned a party for him and his friends a couple of weeks early. I didn't plan a ton of stuff because I knew I would be too big to do too much. Little did I know, I would spend the day in the hospital (see Crosby's 8 month post) and have to rely on Cory to get the cupcakes ready, friends to bring the pizza, and not really even decorate much.

But Caden being the trooper he is, didn't really know any better and had a great time! He thinks he is official 6 years old now and that is all that matters! We hope to have a small family party for both he and Cole on their actual birthday, but again nothing big.

Here are a few pics of his evening...

He always gets bashful when the singing starts

I apparently didn't have the plate of cupcakes close enough so he had to stand up to blow the candle out.
Here is Caden with his good buddy Sam and his Buzz Light Year lego set! This kid loves his legos!

After dinner, cupcakes, and presents we loaded up all the boys and took them to the water park for a couple of hours of splash time! They had a blast!

The next morning as soon as breakfast was finished we had to begin putting together Buzz Light Year. As soon as we finished that, we started on his second Lego gift, some kind of bucket truck...I slept through most of this one :)

Carter of course tried to get in on the action, but in typical Carter fashion he just took the head of Buzz Light Year and an alien and had his own conversation with his characters :) Wish I had a tape recorder so you could hear his voice, but this is how it went...

alien: "I am going to get you Buzz"

Buzz: "you can get me alien, I am bigger than you"

alien: "no you are not, you only have a head!"

Buzz: "but when I get my body, I will put you down!"

Not really sure where Carter comes up with this stuff! He is so funny and imaginative! A fun time was had by all!!!