happy 5th Ivan!

Ivan decided that since he doesn't want to share birthdays anymore that he is going to always have his on the 18th from now on. He will still turn ages on the 20th, but the 18th is his day. Fine with me, I didn't know if I liked sharing all that much either! ha, ha. The party was fun. We were trying to do it smaller, so we just invited 6 of his friends, with their siblings and parents which made it huge. Usually only half of the people we invite make it, but this time everyone did. So we were very pleased when the day turned out so pretty and the kids could terrorize the backyard. We would have never fit in the house. Ivan got way too many gifts, but was a perfect birthday boy during his party, very thankful and agreeable, so that was nice.

He had a bat theme and we made a volcano cake with bats flying around it and a batman coming out of it. It was half chocolate, half strawberry with choc. and strawberry icing (box cakes!). No pinata this year!!! Too much work and money. We got cheap pizza and it was so much better on our stress level than trying to grill for everyone. I'm trying to convince Ivan to wear his I'm 5 hand shirt that we made with all his little guests at the party. 3 friends didn't want to do their hand print, which was probably good since we ran out of room. We have all been having a blast playing with Ivan's toys. Two of them we haven't gotten to try yet because they involve rocket like blasting outside and it has been very windy today.


Nana is also here and took us out to a wonderful birthday dinner. I think she is also going to keep the kids so that Brian and I can go out tomorrow for MY birthday ;) Ivan won't be totally left out. He has his last speech therapy lesson tomorrow, after which we will bequest his special requested for lunch at McDonalds.