Jonah's Birthday Parties

Jonah's birthday is actually this Friday, but it worked out better to do his party stuff this last weekend. On Friday, we had some friends over for a Lego birthday party. (He heard Eli and Tori planning their parties and wanted one.) The decorations were orange and light green like the Lego Power Miners. I had a heck of a time decorating the cake, even though I went with something quite simple in the end. The frosting kept coming out in spurts when I tried to do the lettering. (I'm not one to swear, but this brought me to the brink.) The Legos on top are candies that you can actually build with. Eli kept telling me what a cool cake it was, so I figure by the time they are old enough to realize what actually constitutes a good cake, I will have had enough practice to produce one.

Here are some of the kids during our Lego tower competition:

I painted the kids' faces. I'm not too bad, unless the kids wiggle. For the age group, it went surprisingly well. After Jonah blew out his "3" candle, he took a bite without our noticing and then threw up the bit of wax immediately. That can put a damper on a party. My faithful readers might recall that he ate some of Tori's Tinkerbell candle before her party last year. Hopefully next year he'll remember.


On Sunday evening, we had a cousin party for all of the family members with May birthdays. Here are some pictures of Jonah blowing out his candle and then Penny and Jonah eating their birthday cupcakes.

After the party, Jonah said to me in a slow voice as the idea occured to him: "Hey, those persons didn't bring me none presents." (There are way too many in the family to start giving gifts each birthday.) He actually enjoys opening presents more than having them, I think.


I'll just add this picture of Eli's 1st grade dinosaur program. It was extremely cute. We couldn't see Eli, since the place was so packed, so John stood at the side and recorded him and we went home and had sundaes and watched the video of it.