Happy 5th Birthday!

Since it was our spring break, we had a small family get together for Aidan's birthday. We picked Aidan up from his school (where he had a small party) and went to Cheeky Monkey, an indoor play area near our house. Normally he drags one of us along with him so I expected to get lots of cute pictures. Nope, not this time.  He took off and was only occasionally seen. I would have to ask Kiira if he was ok since she say him more than I did. He had a great time but was exhausted by the time we finished.

Taste testing the cupcakes for school

After Cheeky Monkey

Refreshed and ready to play some more

Aidan turns 4!

Aidan turned 4 today and we celebrated with a little party in the nursery.  The party had a Wreck-It Ralph theme but we had to make the decorations since they don't sell them here.  I tried to make rainbow cupcakes and sugar cookie pinwheels but they didn't turn out as well as I had hoped.  I didn't use enough food coloring for the first batch of cupcakes so you could barely tell they were colored.  I bought icing this year instead of making my own - big mistake.  It was all weird and way too sweet.  The gel food coloring I found was also very disappointing.  The Ultra Violet and Lime Green colors made for icing the color of mold or old brains.  Old zombie brains.  It wasn't pretty.  I think the cookies could have been really cool but by the time I got to them it was so hot in the kitchen that the butter in the batter was melting too much.  They were still colorful and edible, so mission accomplished.  And Aidan was happy with everything he had.

I'll hopefully be able to update this weekend with pictures from Patrick's camera.

Aidan checks out his birthday banner

He got really excited when he saw the racers on the banner

Emma was dressed as a Sugar Rush racer, but it
was too hot for the striped leggings 

Ty and Kiira declared the cookies "delicious!"

It was a good day