Celebrating Levi!

I relish in making my boys' birthdays special, and this year I had fun planning lots of special things for Levi as he turned six. As always, we ate Levi's favorite foods all day on his birthday. He chose chocolate chip pancakes with whipped cream and a horned melon for breakfast. Everytime we went to Sprouts for two months leading to his birthday he asked for that $4 melon, and he ended up eating all of 3 bites of it. But, it was a special treat, and he was very excited to finally try it. For lunch Levi chose Sonic and ordered a corn dog, fries and cherry slush. After lunch we went for a swim, always a favorite for the birthday boy. Aunt Molly, Uncle Ryan, Pop and Moe joined us for dinner with a menu picked specially by Levi of macaroni and cheese, peaches and tomatoes. For dessert we had banana pudding, since minions love bananas and we were seeing the movie after dinner, of course :).  When we were finished enjoying our meal we headed to the movie theater to join the rest of the family in watching Minions. Levi adores every member of his family and really wanted to watch the movie with all of them. Thankfull,y we have a great family who went out of their way to join us on a week night to watch a goofy movie about yellow twinkie shaped creatures. Levi laughed his way through the movie and delighted in having his family by his side. It was a great time celebrating the day our first was born!

On the following Saturday we finished off the celebration by having a small swimming party for Levi and his friends. He decided to have an Angry Birds theme, since that is a phone game he loves to play with his dad. I made some cupcakes decorated to look like the angry birds and their nemesis the bad piggies. Levi loved them and thought they were perfect, which made my heart happy :).  As usual, the birthday boy was in charge of the party menu, decor, activities and favors and everything he chose was a hit! We had watermelon (yellow and red) and hard boiled "angry bird eggs" for snacks, Gatorade, Sprite and capri suns for drinks, a pinata and swimming for activities and bad piggie cups filled with angry bird tatoos, mini paddle balls and a mini rubix cube for favors. Six of Levi best buddies from church and school came and I think they all had a blast playing and celebrating. Levi declared it a great party after everyone left, I had to agree, it was a simple, but very fun party! I'm looking forward to celebrating many more year of my Levi love in the future :)