Ethan turned the big 5 on May 14th, and I am just now getting around to blogging about it. His Birthday was on a Thursday so we kept it pretty low-key. My mom treated him to a Birthday lunch at McD's and later that night Dave came home from work early to treat him to a Birthday dinner, but Ethan wasn't interested- which sucks for me cause that means I have to make dinner! Whatever the Birthday boy wants the Birthday boy gets right?! Then we had some cake and opened his present and cards that came in the mail.
On Saturday we had his official Birthday party with his friends and cousins. I had decided that my kids were only going to get a big party every other year and that since Ethan had a big Birthday party last year that we would just do something as a family. However, I started to feel a little guilty because every single year for Addyson's birthday she has always gotten a big party and Ethan has only had 1. So, I decided to go ahead and do it but keep it really simple. We bought a big play structure for the back yard that the kids spend all of their time on so I thought I would just invite some kids over, have them play outside, throw some water balloons, have cake and ice cream, open presents and call it a party. Well, it just h-a-d to rain and ruin my plans so I had to scramble at the last minute and come up with some last minute games and activities inside, so needless to say the party was not as stress free as I had hoped but Ethan was happy so it was worth it.
He is soooo into Pokemon right now, so of course he wanted a Pokemon party
Since my water balloon fight idea didn't work out so well, I decided to have the kids have a "snowball" fight inside with socks. The kids seemed to have a lot of fun, only one kid got a bloody nose- oops!
Then we did the whole doughnut on a line game but instead of having doughnuts all over in my house I substituted fruit roll-ups, not quite as fun but it still worked out great.
I kept the cake very simple, I just don't have the motivation to go all out on a cake right now. I just made a triple layer yellow cake with white chocolate raspberry creamcheese filling and buttercream on the outside then I just stuck some some Pokemon figurines on top and called it good. 
The moment the party started Ethan kept asking me when we were going to open presents. We played the first game and he asked then we played the second game and he made it very clear that that was going to be the last game because he wanted to open presents. Ethan we are so blessed to have you in our home. You are such a good boy who is so sweet to your sisters and your parents. You are always willing to do anything that we ask you(most of the time). Now that you are 5 you are super excited about all of the new things that you get to experience i.e. school, YMCA activities, and soccer. I know that you will do awesome because you always try your best. We love you and hope you had a Happy Birthday!
