Birthday spring begins!

Here we are, it's March 28th and I've survived two kids birthday parties.  Can I get an "amen?!"  All in all, it was really fun.  We started out celebrating Mr. Isaac Alan on March 14th.  He awoke to presents and a homemade Storybots sign.

When your birthday is "pie day" you get pie!  Bamma picked up a Pi Pie!

 Happy 4th dude!

 We went to McTeacher Nite at the local McDonald's.  Sam was pretty thrilled to see a teacher dressed as a pie and to see his kindergarten teacher behind the counter taking orders!

 St. Patty's Day requires green ensembles!

 Mike was out of town all week and came home on Friday to get cracking on Isaac's cake.  He spent many hours getting the characters just right.

 Very successful reveal the next morning at breakfast!

 We had a joint birthday party for Xavier (2), Isaac (4), and Noah (9) with all the family that weekend at my parents' house.  It was lovely!  Here's the cake artist with his masterpiece and the lucky recipients Isaac and Xavier!

 The birthday boys work together to get the candles out!

 Sam does a spot on impression of "Boop" the angry, red Storybot!

 All the kids left to right: Sam, Francesca, Isabella, Isaac, Nicholas, Xavier, Anya, and Noah!

 These two characters!

 We spent a few days prepping then for Noah's friend party at our house.  Sam was feeling a little left out, with two brother birthdays, so I gave him a special archaeology kit to work on.

 Noah wanted a repeat of last year's theme: Minecraft.  Fortunately, Pinterest came to the rescue with a few new ideas...

 Party day!  He woke up ready to creep it up with his friends!

 The cake was inspired by Noah's avatar "skin" in the game.  It was very accurate (according to him).

 He's nine!

 We hosted a motley crew of school friends, other friends, and neighbors.  It was busy, but awesome!

 Ellie spent the day with Kelly and Ginger, away from all the hubbub.  I think she enjoyed her day with Kevin and Boots!

 So now we head into Spring Break week with lots of new toys!  Thanks to all who celebrated with us, we have a very lucky 4 year old and 9 year old now!