Friday, December 14, 2007

Happy Birthday Gabriel!!

This past Sunday, Gabe turned 5!!!! Of course, I can't believe it! The Friday before his bday, we celebrated in Sioux Falls. We did some shopping (mainly Doug for me while the kids played in the play area) and got to eat at Chuck E Cheese. Gabe got a crown since it was his bday, and Anna scavanged one off the floor that another little girl lost -- she was gone though, so I let Anna keep it. It was a fun day for all of us. We even got to eat supper at Red Lobster. Gabe and Anna both loved watching the lobsters in the tank. (We didn't really tell them they were someones supper.)

Sunday we got up early and Gabe helped make cinnamon rolls for his special bday breakfast, then it was off to church. Oh, Saturday night Gabe insisted on helping me with his cake. So, when he got home from Christmas practice at church, he started to icing it while I was helping Anna with something. I managed to get the icing from him before he demolished the cake, but it was a very nice gesture. He did insist on sprinkles though. The cake was yummy even though it was VERY crunchy from the 1/3 bottle of sprinkles he dumped out on it. hahah I guess it didn't look pretty enough with just the chocolate icing! After supper, we did presents and he was able to talk to some family members and friends who called to sing Happy Birthday and talk to him. He really thought he was hot stuff getting phone calls.
As you can tell from the picture of Anna with the balloon, it is dry in our house. She did that by accident. She didn't even rub it on her hair like we did as kids. We did have to rub it a tiny bit to get it to stick on the wall though. The kids just thought that was the best thing in the world to see the balloons on each others back and the walls.
For those of you wondering, we can pick up Gabe's 5 yr old pictures tomorrow, so if you haven't gotten a Christmas letter yet, it will soon be on the way.

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