Happy Birthday Matthew!!

 Matthew turned 5 years old on Tuesday and had a fun birthday.  Last week he had a friend party at Chuck E. Cheese which was a lot of fun.  Today at school he got to bring a birthday snack and the kids sang "Happy Birthday" to him.  He was excited 'cause he got to wear a crown at school.  Here's our big birthday boy!

He got to pick our dinner and he choose hot dogs, or "yumblats" as we sometimes call them.  That's what Martian Mickey calls hot dogs on The Mickey Mouse Clubhouse tv show that Matthew likes.  Here we are eating our yumblats.  Scott and I had chili dogs.  Matthew ate his plain and Anna just stared at hers and ate potato chips.

 She did add cheese to hers though.

 Matthew told me he would eat three and nearly made it.  I think the crown helped.

 Grant eating some Corn Chex, one of his current favorite things.

 Here is Matthew's Mickey Mouse cake that I made.  :) 
This is about as fancy as I get in the cake department.  :)

 Singing Happy Birthday...

 ...and blowing out the candles.

And here's Matthew going on his treasure hunt for presents.  I've done this for him several years and now he expects it.  I was thinking of doing something else this year, but all day he's been saying he can't wait to go on a treasure hunt for his presents, so I couldn't disappoint him.

 Anna is his treasure hunt helper of course.

 More presents.

Grant waited patiently for the treasure hunters to return.  He found a balloon that was floating by, which was exciting for him.

And here's Matthew opening some presents.  Dinosaur Legos.

Star Wars Legos.  We've already built this one by the way.  

He liked building it and said, "Legos are so fun!"

And the piece de resistance, the Finn McMissile (from Cars 2) that talks and shoots missiles.  Matthew was very excited about this one and took it up to bed with him...after shooting a few missiles at things.

He also got some little Star Wars figurines, but Anna was much more interested in them than Matthew was.  She took Jar Jar Binks and Anakin with her to bed and has been playing with them (and some of the other ones we got Matthew) ever since.

Here she is playing with them.  :)  It was a busy and exciting birthday.  I'm glad I was able to get everything ready in time.  Happy Birthday Matthew!