Is he really 5???

I'm still in shock that this is happening.  My baby boy is 5.  FIVE?!?!  Not sure how that happened....everyone says it happens so fast, and it's true.  In one sense, I can't remember a time when he wasn't in our lives, and in another sense, I feel like it was just yesterday that we were carrying him around face down across our arm because it was the way that he wanted to be held as a newborn baby.

We celebrated Gavin's 5th birthday with a low key party.  When I asked him about about planning his party, he just wanted to invite a couple friends over to play.  The more he thought about it, the two friends turned to four (and three were able to attend) but he still just wanted them to come over to play, have cake and open presents.  Nothing big!

The theme?  Angry Birds Star Wars, of course.  But he had an Angry Birds party last year, right?  Yep...but this was totally different according to him.  This was Angry Birds Star Wars!

That Sunday afternoon, we friends came over and he had his Angry Birds Star Wars games set up in the toy room for them to play, we made up a 'pin the nose on Darth Vader' game, had an amazing cake made by my friend, Mara, and opened presents.  Pretty laid back party, if I do say so myself!

We were so impressed with his cake!  Mara did such a great job.

 He had school on his actual birthday, so instead of goodie bags, we took in Krispy Kreme donuts for the class.  They used to get them on their birthday, and after a management change, they stopped giving the preschool the discount, so we thought it would be a nice treat. 

I surprised him after school with a stop at Chuck E. Cheese to play.  He LOVES that place!  And it's cheap fun...$10 worth of tokens and an hour of play time.  :)

Lastly, to celebrate his birthday, we started a tradition of ice cream for dinner last year.  So despite a few days filled with sugar, we headed to Yum Yos for some frozen yogurt.  He thinks that's so cool.  And I love that it's a special memory he'll always have.

Happy birthday, Bug.  We love you to the moon and back!