Josh's 5th Birthday Party

We celebrated Josh's birthday a week early because both sets of grandparents are going to be out of town next weekend.  I really wanted Josh to have a great birthday with lots of love and support from the family.  I didn't want the birth of Allie to take away from his special day.  Josh isn't one to really show his emotions about certain things, but either way I wanted him to feel the love.

Luckily most of the family was able to come and support Josh.  Josh loves all of his cousins so much and loved having them all over to our house.  All the kids played really well together and because the weather was so nice they were able to play some outside and the rest of the time down stairs.

Once most people were there we had Josh open his presents.  He loved all the presents and all the attention while he opened them.  He got two Wii games and he has been obsessed with them ever since.  He has really gotten into the Wii lately and loves to have Tony come down stairs and play with him.  I think Tony really likes that him and Josh can play these games together. 

After Josh opened his presents we had cake and ice cream.  Tony decided to get a better cake then we normally do, so he went and ordered one from Reams.  It was chocolate with whipped cream frosting.  It was pricey, but tasted really good.  I knew I didn't want to stress about making a cake or cupcakes.  Also Sherri brought lots of cheese sticks from a pizza place by her that I really like so we were able to have some of those as well. 

We chatted with the family and had a great time.  I think Josh really liked his party.  He did tell me he wanted a surprise party.  It was a little too late to make it a surprise party since he already knew about the party, silly guy.

Josh's actual birthday is on the 14th.  I can't believe he is almost 5 years old.  In so many ways he has grown up so much.  He is becoming a little person and not just a little kid.  We love him so much and feel so lucky to have him in our family.

Josh blew out the candle before the song was over, he was too excited to wait. 

Josh picked out his cake from Reams.  It was blue with a cool Batman on it.

The grandpa's taking their turn with baby Allie.