Birthdays

Today was Thomas and Spenser's birthday. I always feel kind of bad for Spenser because I know that for the past 7 years he's had to share his special day. Well, I guess that he gets to understand a little about the way I feel since my birthday and Mother's day are just days apart and then my special days are over for the year (I'm not bitter I promise). 

Spenser left early for work. He didn't get breakfast, but I got up and made muffins for Thomas! Cinnamon muffins were the flavor of choice and I proudly showed them to him only to tell me that he had asked for either banana muffins or cinnamon rolls, not the muffins that I had heard. To be honest I'm not entirely sure who was wrong, but he graciously ate them anyway. He then spent a little while trying to wake Olivia up because he knew that he couldn't open presents until everyone was awake. His sister didn't kindly oblige and went back to sleep for a while, but she finally managed to make it down the stairs. He was allowed to open his cards and a couple of presents, since I had got into trouble from Spenser last year when Thomas opened everything at breakfast which made Spense feel a little uninvolved. 

The balloons and presents

Birthday breakfast

Money from Brad and Deidre - a big hit thanks

guys. He is very into money at the moment.

Olivia with the Star Wars toy we got for Thomas

and Grandma Elaine's Clone Trooper clothes

The kids played really well together while I made cupcakes and lunch to take to the park. We decided that we would meet Spenser for lunch at the park near his office and open the rest of the presents. Thomas was of course pretty down with that idea. Unfortunately, when we got to the office we had a dentist who was having some issues with a root canal which upset our plans a little. We just headed out to the park and Spenser joined us when he had finished up. We didn't get as much time with him as we would have liked, but it was still nice to see him. After a little park time we went home and got changed to go to the pool where we spent the rest of the afternoon. 

Waiting for dad to arrive

Making apple teeth

Dad finally arrived to enjoy his Quizno's sub

Olivis was of course very happy to help him open 

presents. Here is his new Razor scooter

Silly boy!

He loves to slide

Olivia didn't have the most sensible climbing footwear

and he kept getting bark on her feet too

The monkey bars can really make you puff

For dinner, Thomas had requested that we go to Pellegrino's Italian kitchen. He likes their pizza I guess. We had a nice meal, but just lately I feel like I have to spend the whole time preventing Zach from spilling his drink over himself. We always get a soda for him to enjoy, but for some reason he always wants to put his floaties in mine too. We managed to make it through the meal with only some minor spillage. 

The boys at Pellegrino's

Olivia helped Thomas with his ice cream!

When we came home we of course had to get the scooter out to try. Our neighbor Ryan was very interested in his new present and I think that he even rode it for more of the night than Thomas. Olivia was a mess and was begging to be put to bed so I did that before we had cupcakes. Being the cupcake lover that she is I was highly surprised when she said that she was just too tired to make it until then, but she did say that she would have one in the morning. 

The new ride

Zach took this out of our neighbors garage

so that he could join in the fun

Thomas isn't a huge fan of cake and ice cream (and Spense shouldn't eat them!) so I went simple with a few cupcakes this year. I made them each a star because they really shining stars to me. 

Star cupcake

Spenser excited about his birthday

Thomas ready for us to sing

I hope that they both had a fun birthday. We sure love having them in our family.