Lego Birthday

Tomorrow night we are celebrating Tony's 7th birthday. Yesterday he turned 7 and he let us all know it at 4 in the morning. He came down and was shaking me telling me "IT'S MY BIRTHDAY!". It was quite a wake up call. This week is TAKS week so he couldn't have visitors for lunch, so I made him pancakes and sausage for his birthday breakfast. When he came down to eat, I surprised him with candles in his cake. I got the best picture of a natural smile - first one in a long time!

His daddy took cupcakes to his class at the end of the day and of course we had the traditional Fuddruckers dinner (thankfully Jordonna's babysitter gave us BOGO coupons so it was reasonable.)

Tony has asked for years to have his party at Chuck E Cheese and we have put him off for as long as we could - we had the giant water slide, then we brought in the Crocodile Encounter. There really wasn't anything better than Chuck E this year that we could bribe him with, so Chuck E it is. He wanted a LEGO theme. Now that I am working on all the things for tomorrow, I am sad I didn't make his invitations one more year. I sent out evites and am beating myself up about it now, because all the other lego things I made tonight turned out really cute. I put M&M's in plastic jewelry bags and made a Lego topper for them and then wrapped juice boxes in cardstock to resemble Legos. One friend actually asked if I bought them - NO!!! The invites would have been great, but can't get hung up on that now. I made cupcakes and they have Lego candy bricks on top of them and my mom is making his lego bricks cakes - a 9x13 cake cut into various bricks and decorated, using oreo's as the buttons on top of the Lego. I will post pictures of those after the party tomorrow (update - when I find my camera)

Happy Birthday, Tony! 7 should be a good year - you've reached so many goals that you always said you would do when you turned 7, so what will you do this year? We love you!