Elias' Birthday

Saturday was Elias' birthday.  It started as all birthdays should, with a ginormous silly straw and some super sugary cereal (Count Chocula)!

He must have slept good; look how puffy those eyes are (and how happy that kid is; he woke up super duper happy)!

And guess how old he is.  4? You guessed it!

Opening a present.

He was pretty excited about that Star Wars LEGO.

 Laying it out with Daddy.

Daddy making sure that Asher doesn't jump right in there and start helping.

This boy is actually really good at following the directions and putting together LEGO.  He is definitely the best of our kids at this age.

 His audience whilst assembling.

For his birthday dinner, he requested tacos (actually he requested cake.  Then, after I explained that we would have cake after dinner, he requested "toties".  It was only after I explained that cake and cookies were both desserts and that I was looking for a dinner food that he settled on tacos).  For his cake, I made pumpkin spice cupcakes with cookie butter buttercream from this website.  So yummy.

All lit up.

 Enjoying licking the frosting off the candles.

We had some guests for dinner to help celebrate.  Per Elias' request, we invited Colin and Mary. "Tolin" is definitely one of Elias' favorite people in the world right now.

Asher couldn't have the cupcakes because of egg but he could have the frosting so I made him a pumpkin cookie sandwich with the absolutely awesome cookie butter buttercream.

Colin and Mary even gave Elias gifts.  Colin's may have involved a shampoo bottled filled with nickels and dimes.  They also gave some pretty exciting Hot Wheel car set ups.  One involves a ramp for the tub (which has already been deemed a hit).

All in all, it was a pretty great day for all.