Birthday Party

On Saturday we had family over for a little party for our 3 year old. Thanks for coming everyone, he loves you all and was thrilled to have you here for his party. I felt he really understood we were celebrating him and it made it extra special for him.


Hot Cup grilled ribs & salmon for the lunchtime party and they were both really delicious. Seriously perfect. Unfortunately I don't have a picture, but I do have pictures of the birthday boy eating ketchup and his baby brother eating toast.


He loved all his his gifts and we were hardly able to convince him to open any after the first, but he did and had a really fun time discovering all his new stuff. By the time he was done it was naptime but we still had to have cake :)  (The picture on the right shows his I'm-trying-really-hard-not-to-smile face.)


I decorated his cake after he went to bed the night before. So the morning of his party I showed it to him. I asked him not to touch it until after we sang to him and he blew out the candles. He'd occasionally let us know he remembered the cake was there, and he was super about not touching it.


I don't know if I confused him and he thought he'd just get to play with it, if he was just tired, if he was too excited about his new toys, or if he simply didn't want cake, but he didn't eat any. He came over for us to sing to him and had dad blow out the candles. Then he played with the trucks a minute and ate a beam (aka Kit Kat) but when I started dishing it out he asked to get down to play.


After everyone left he wanted to play with the trucks & cake, and after he napped we let him and he played with it for over an hour. He ate some of the icing and some of the extra rocks (chocolate graham crackers) but still no cake. He's played with it Sunday, Monday, and today too. I suppose I'm about ready for it to be gone so we don't have to clean it off the trucks anymore.

I guess he's not a huge cake person, at least right now, so I'm glad it was a cake he could enjoy without eating, haha.

The cake didn't taste as good as the one I made for his first two birthdays. It's Warren Brown's sponge cake instead of butter cake, and in all fairness he says in his cookbook that sponge cakes aren't as good.

Happy Birthday buddy!