a ZOOper Birthday Party!

4 years old! How is that possible? Recalculate that figure! Ok, it's true, my little Dane is 4. sigh Since his birthday fell on a Tuesday and party wasn't til Saturday, I bought ice cream cone shaped cup-cake pans (say that 3 times fast) and made the cup-cakes...with Dane and Drake's help...see previous blog. Then the day of his birthday we ate them. The idea is that the cake looks like the icecream cone and the icing looks like the icecream. NOT REALLY! I am not a cake decorator so it looked like a cupcake with a stem...which by the way broke off in the boys hands and they had to race T-Bone to the cup-cake on the floor. My solution: I eat the stem, since I don't like icing and the boys eat the cupcake with the icing and sprinkles....happy happy joy joy *smile* Who remembers where THAT quote is from? Dane took more cup-cakes to day-care to share with his friends and then we came home and opened gifts. He's seen here holding a couple favorites and his new Lightening McQueen chair. The rest are on the table: puzzles, cars, remote control helicopter... But wait, a few days later we had a birthday party at the St. Louis zoo!
MORE SUGAR!











The whole package included: lunch, cake and icecream, games, goodie bags and a dressed up character of our choice. We chose Elmo since Dane is afraid of Penquins (one of the choices) the others were Kangaroo, bear and a few others I can't remember. I figured Elmo would get the best reaction from all the kids there. 1st he tore through his gifts:









Drake had a couple gifts of his own:









Then all the kids colored a big card for him:










Eating:









ELMO!








and then last, but not least, singing, cake and icecream! He got shy with the full attention on him. Funny, I feel the same way, even with 35 birthdays behind me. After us big kids took a breath and got all the stuff together, we toured the zoo on the train (A "Must Do" everytime we go) and then went to the children's zoo...to get the little one's last bit of energy out and to ensure a sound nap on the way home.









Over-all, a great day!