mikey’s birthday bash

we held mikey’s birthday party at adventureplex a few days later on a tuesday morning.  we chose to go with a mid-week day since most of mikey’s friends are also in preschool and would be able to attend, phil had that day off, and we figured it would be way less crowded on a weekday.  turns out it was a great day to have the party since there were only a few other people there and we almost had the place to ourselves. 

mikey requested to have his party at this “playground with the roof over it”.

i’m diving in!

i am a happy boy!

and i am a happy girl!

some of my lovely mommy friends.  (stinkin’ batteries were dying in my speedlight and i forgot to bring extras!)

“look mommy, we’re way up here!”

thankful for friends who looked after lauren and kept her entertained.

sweaty-headed boys.

peek-a-boo!

these little guys wanted to take a break from the action and spent a few moments quietly coloring. 🙂

phil had disappeared and look where he turned up. understandablethough, since he was the only daddy there.

lauren trying out the ball pit.

sweet little girls.

going in to mikey’s party room for lunch.

mikey wanted a star wars theme and adventureplex did a GREAT jobputting everything together. the ONLY thing i had to do was show up onthe day of the party. thank goodness for that because we weren’t evenable to show up on time!

party food (we also had pizza for the kids, but they were already munching away at it before i got a picture– they were all super hungry from all the running around they did!).

party fruit.

party cake!

kids happily eating and chatting away.

mikey checking out his star wars cake.

my girlie sitting next to her friend, kar kar.

ahh, such a cutie pie!

blowing out five candles.

“hey, look at my blue tongue!”

“you wanna see it too?”

family of five celebrating five years of parenting. and still smiling! 🙂  (though i don’t love how they’re all looking in different directions, this is the only shot we got of the whole family so what can you do, right?  ).

happy birthday, my boy!  we love you soooo much and hope you had a GREAT time turning five!