Happy Birthday Kai!

We celebrated Kai's 4th birthday on Saturday May 14th.  He was very excited for his birthday this year and wanted to invite everyone he met to his birthday "party".  I had planned on waiting until his 5th birthday before we started to do parties with friends, but somehow he learned about birthday parties this year and was really looking forward to having one.  After a lot of thinking, we decided to do something very simple.  I asked him who his best friends were and then we just invited those few friends for cake and ice cream.  I tried to tell them no presents allowed.  We invited Sister Horton and her daughter Megan (our RS president and her daughter that we use as a babysitter), Sister Lundwall and her daughter Micah (Kai's old nursery teacher and her daughter that just loves Kai), and the Webster family (a family that we switch babysitting with often and that has 3 boys all around Kai and Finn's ages).  Unfortunately the Websters were unable to come, but it still turned out well.  Despite what I said, everyone brought Kai a present and we all had a good time eating cake and ice cream and opening and eating presents.  Kai definitely had fun helping to pick out the dinosaur decorations and telling me what he wanted on his cake.  What he didn't know was that I already had a cake in mind, and despite his requests for pink and polka dots, he was going to get a dinosaur cake.  In the end, I think he was very happy with his birthday!

Grandma Hickman sent a birthday package a few days early.
The boys loved the musical instruments.

And Finn loved walking through the popcorn!

Kai's dinosaur cake had a motion-activated dinosaur on top.
See the video below.

Another view of the cake

Kai wanted to eat the volcano.  It was just
an upside-down ice cream cone, so he only ate the frosting.

Working on the frosting

A view of our little party

Opening his first present

It was a blue stuffed braciosaurus that he has named
"Herbivore Longneck".  Silly Kai!

A present from the Lundwalls, Toy Story 3 Memory

One of his favorite presents, the playdough Cake Makin' Station

Opening his stomp rocket behind his soccer ball from the Hortons.

Riding his new balance bike from Mom and Dad with is new helmet and elbow pads.