Alex's 5th birthday!

Finally, I get to tell you about Alex's birthday this year. My previous post was supposed to be part of this post, but I got sidetracked.

So on Alex's birthday we got up early, changed into our swimsuits, and watched Alex open his presents. I love having Christmas in July.

Then we drove for a little over 2 hours to Morioka to spend the day at Kenji World. On the way back, we stopped at Papa Geano's for a great Italian Buffet at the Shimoda Mall. The place is great because it has different menu items every time we go and the best part--it has unlimited gelato and soft-serve ice cream. We were stuffed.

On Saturday, July 31st, we decided to invite several of Alex's friends and their families to our neighborhood park for some pizza and cake. Alex wanted to have a Lion King theme birthday and an Elephant Graveyard cake. That's right--an ELEPHANT GRAVEYARD cake.

This is a picture of what it looked like in the movie "Lion King"

And this is what Robert created:)

While kids are singing "Happy Birthday" to Alex.

Alex's face in this last picture is cracking me up.

We made a crown for Alex (as in Lion KING) and had a couple of games for the kids. I printed out quotes from the movie and had the kids guess who said what. And then I printed out some paw/hoof prints from the internet and made the kids guess which prints belong to what animals. The main entertainment was the playground though. It was a cloudy day and the kids had a blast for a couple of hours.

This is Alex pretending to be Scar, I think:)

Our wonderful friends who came to the celebration.Happy Birthday, Alex!!!

P.S.Mark had a bit too much cake.