Sam's birthday started out with Grandma Mum's tradition of chocolate iced donuts, with sprinkles and balloons being delivered in time for breakfast. This tradition is something the children always, always look forward too!
Knowing we'd have a 5 day old baby at home on his birthday, we've had lots and lots of conversations about what he wanted to do to celebrate. Typically the fifth birthday is celebrated at home with just our family, but last year his birthday fell on a Sunday, and we didn't do a friends birthday party, and so we decided to allow a small "low key" friends birthday party this year, which we'll do next weekend.
So tonight we celebrated as a family. Sam requested pancakes for dinner. GR asked if he wanted to go to IHOP for pancakes, and he said no, he wanted Grandma Mutti to make them because she makes the best pancakes. So we pulled out all the stops and made a full course breakfast for his birthday dinner again this year.
Sam also requested a red ice cream cake. So we made our first red velvet cake (not so hard now that Duncan Hines has a red velvet cake mix I could easily doctor up), cut the 10" cake in half to make 2 layers, added a thick layer of vanilla ice cream, and then covered the whole thing in a simple icing of powdered sugar, cream cheese and cool whip. It turned out perfectly!
ETA: He's really excited about all his gifts and has gone non-stop since Tuesday night making the rounds with each and every gift he's opened. Mom made the comment that everyone nailed their gifts so perfectly this year that we'll be hard pressed to live up to it again next year. That's the great thing we're learning about boys at this age ... you simply can't go wrong with anything that winds up, shoots, flies, or has a remote control - and that pretty much sums up everything he got this year.
We have just about a week and half before we repeat this all over again with Alex ... and given how he's taken to following Sam around wanting to do exactly what Sam's doing with each of his gifts, he'd be extremely happy if we really did repeat Sam's birthday.
4 comments:
I'm glad that things went well. Pancakes and ice cream cake--who could dask for more!
Happy Birthday. I remember when we first got to Kansas, you were very pregnant with Sam. Very handsome boy. This will definitely always be a busy time for birthdays for you guys.
Fun to catch up on your posts. Such cute pictures of baby Anna. Sam's birthday sounded fun. Sounds like you have a lot of birthdays all together. We are heading into that mode in August :)
What a great celebration you had for Sam -- even with brand-new baby Anna! I am impressed.
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