Birthday Highlights

This house was a dangerous place to be on Cole's birthday.

The Titanic was sinking. Dinosaurs were hunting. Pirates were attacking. The Beatles were singing. Luckily, there was a superhero or two around to save the day.
While Cole was at preschool, I frosted and decorated his cake.

Edible dinosaurs on the side.

It's hard to make plans for Cole's birthday. It seems like every year someone is sick and whatever plans we've made fall through. When he turned 3, he was very sick with the flu. Last year, for his 4th birthday, Julie and Estelle were in Glover. Both Estelle and Heather came down a terrible fever that seemed to go on and on forever. We had to postpone and replan his birthday dinner when everyone was feeling better. So this year, we kept it small, and just invited a couple of friends, Dante and Fintan, to come for hamburgers and cake and ice cream.

We had a few of the jello "drinks" left over from Cole's preschool birthday/April Fool's celebration. So we decided to try them out on Dante and Fintan.

Fintan was thirsty.

Hmmm. What kind of juice is this?

I need to tell you something about Fintan. Wes planned a little treasure hunt for the kids with hand written clues on little pieces of paper which were hidden around the house. Fintan was easily able to read the clues all by himself. And he won't even be five until August. Home-schooled.

Dante is a big Beatles fan. It seems like he knows every word to every Beatles song ever recorded. He and Wes had a great time singing and playing guitar. Wes has a new friend.

Time for the cake. Cole covered his ears when we sang the birthday song, but at least he did not run crying from the room. After our traditional birthday song, Wes and Dante sang the Beatles birthday song. By the way, that Spiderman costume belongs to Dante. He was very nice to let Cole wear it for his birthday. Cole loved it.

Finally the gifts! Cole had been telling everyone all day, "I hope you didn't get me clothes. I don't like getting clothes presents." He was very excited to open this gift from Wayne. Wayne had made a ship out of paper. It's not the Titanic, but some sort of freighter that carries an airplane. Cole loved it and gave Wayne a big hug.

This is the greatest hat! It's not a very good picture but it says, "Titanic." Sylvia, D and F's mom, made it.

A motorized Titanic for the bathtub.

A poster from Julie, Thomas, and Estelle. The best kind - it shows both the Titanic and the iceberg. Thank you, Julie.

Fintan checks out some dinosaurs that Cole got from Gramma and Grampa. Thank you, G&G.

A playmobile Pirate set from Joanie.

He also got a couple of video games and several books. All in all, a lot of loot!

Thank you to everyone for your phone calls, e-mails, singing, and wishes. He enjoyed all his gifts. He loved the birthday cards from Auntie Di, Billy and Chris, Grampa and Gramma, Grammie, Lisa, and Dan, Peter, Jeanne and the girls. He was tickled pink with the birthday money and feels very rich indeed.

I was very glad that he was finally able to enjoy his birthday on his birthday. When he went to bed, I asked him, "Did you enjoy your birthday, Cole?"

He said, "Yes. I loved it."