Clean Up Crew

• Here Daddy is cleaning up, while we're all standing around talking.
• Earlier I did most of the dishes, made the sides and cleaned most of the house. Travis made the main dish and twice baked potatoes, which were yummy!
• Was it worth all the work? I think so!

Nephew Elijah Just Being Cute

Cake

• Mica kept moving when it was time to sing Happy Birthday. I didn't get any good shots of him.

Grandpa Spiehs and Isaak

• Isaak loves balloon's of course. In this shot, a balloon is what he's pointing at.
• He kept pointing and saying "Ba", which is "Ball".

Remote Control Spider Part 2

• Our guest Natalie was scared of the spider, unless she was playing with it herself.
• She got it spinning in circles.
• It's funny watching a little girl in a dress playing with a spider.
• After I posted this, Natalie's mom (Jodie seen in the photo) called me to tell me that Natalie woke up 3 times last night scared that a spider was going to attack her. It was her mom's idea to get it out after I told her how Isaak acted. LOL

Remote Control Spider

• Isaak was terrified of this spider when we got it out last night. It's been awhile since we got it out to play with. He was trying to crawl up our legs, and was crying a terrified cry.
• I tried to capture it on video, but it was too late.
• Tonight he was pretty calm about the spider. He was studying it more then anything.

Train Sets

• Aunt Becky, Grandpa Spiehs, Grandma Spiehs and cousin Ethan worked on setting up one, while Travis worked on the other.
• I think the adults had just as much fun watching the kids play as the kids had fun playing.
• Whenever Mica played really intensely he sticks his tongue out. Just something I noticed a lot tonight.

• So...I had some games set up to play for the party, but getting the train sets, set up and played with occupied them so well. No games this year.
• I'll hold onto the winner ribbons for some other year. :)
• I was going to have the boys play drop the clothes pin in the jar. They stand on a step ladder, and try and drop it in. We played this when we were kids at our parties.
• They had so much fun!

Gifts

• I think Mica asked me, "Is it time for my birthday yet?" about 50 times before the party.
• He could not wait for the presents.
• He got some puzzles, games, Team Geotrax sets, a Thomas engine, a Berenstain Bears watch too Much TV book and flash cards.
• Notice that he has on his Burger King crown. I bought him a conductor hat for the occasion, and he kept his crown on all evening long.
• For his actual birthday on the 10th we'll give him Grandma and Grandpa Apel's present, a Thomas car from Isaak and we got him a frisbee to open up. We'll go out to dinner too.

Pre Party

• Pre party: 6 pounds of chicken, 1 dozen eggs and 3 packages of chopped mushrooms.
• We had a Polish dish called, "Chicken Bitki". It's one of Mica's fav's.
• It's kind of like good for you, fancy chicken nuggets.
• We also had watermelon, twice baked potatoes and fresh green beans.
• To drink we had Root Beer I got from Costco (the best I've ever had!), lemon-aid and lime-ade.

Funny Face

• Mica made this funny face at breakfast this morning.