Matt's Birthday

I've been waiting to blog about Matt's birthday until it was over. Now, a week later, I think it's over. Whew! It's been a whirlwind, so here goes!

On Tuesday, Nov. 18th Matthew turned 4... What a cutey - we celebrated at home with muffins. We don't have pictures of him blowing out his candles ON his birthday (he hid everytime we sang Happy Birthday to him all week) but this was one of his birthday presents - a play dough caddy...

Then on Saturday was his "friends" birthday party where we were all pirates! It was a lot of fun (if it was a bit crazy - I am not used to boy birthday parties with boy energy!). We had the kids decorate individual pirate chest cakes to later eat (thanks Carolyn for the idea). We had a treasure hunt, played Tick Tock Find the Croc & another game, watched part of the Pirates who Don't Do Anything & hung out. It was truly crazy and I'm not sure if we will be doing this again next year or something a wee bit simpler but Matthew has already informed me he wants a dinosaur party next year. We'll see... :-)

We actually made a treasure chest cake (thank you Gregg) but decided to save it for our NEXT celebration on Sunday!

I felt bad for the kids on Saturday as they all wanted to eat it BUT... Gregg's nephew's son Kyle also was turning 4 & visiting Minnesota so we had to get together to celebrate one more time!

Happy Birthday special boy!