Ben's 5th Birthday continued

Brienna made Minion cupcakes for Ben to take to school & share with is class.  Can you tell he loved them?!?

The Winnie-the-Pooh cake Brienna also made (yes--my daughter is much more talented at cake-decorating than myself & so I let her take over.)

More Minion cupcake pictures--fun! 

looking great!

Ben opening his presents

Loving his new shirt

the monkey hat Brienna bought him

His very own Legos!  (and not the mega-block legos--mini one's like Zane's).  Zane was happy that he doesn't have to share his Lego's anymore ;)

Yes!!!! Spiderman!!!!  (I love Emmalee's photo-bomb face!)

Ben wanted his candle in Pooh's eye--silly guy!

He did it!  now let's eat some cake!

Ben had to take a picture of his hat--not on is head, either ;)

Ben's 5th Birthday

Wow--I can't believe my baby boy turned 5--on November 5th :)

We started the day with a celebration in town.  We went to his favorite store (the DI thrift store) & ended up at McDonalds (or according to Ben:  "Old McDonald's")

hamburger, chocolate milk (he really didn't want fries, but they have the small, "doll-sized" fries now) & apple dippers.

He was so good to eat first before he went to play.

and then he played for almost 45 minutes.

I see you Mom!

driving the helicopter

It's not very often that we actually eat in town--we usually pick up a pizza, buy a corn dog or chicken from the deli at Wal-Mart, or run thru the drive-thru & eat on the way home.  So this was a special treat for him!

He played and played and played--thankfully there weren't very many other kids & so he was able to play with everything :)

His last time going down the slide.

I think I wore him out!  It was a fun day in town.  Now for the birthday celebration at home...