Russell's birthday celebration

After last year's debacle with our crazy tenant, I really wanted Russell to not have any unusual circumstance happen on his birthday. Luckily, we did some of his most favorite things today. We enjoyed breakfast with Dad before he went to school. Then we puttered around, Russell played cars, watched some Curious George. All the students at school wanted to sing "Happy Birthday" to Russell, so Ben's biology and chemistry classes skyped us and sang to Russell. We also had to run some quick errands including going to the library really quickly to return some books and Russell could walk over the little bridge they have and see the fish.

 Russell's birthday dinner of hot dogs, veggies and watermelon. It was a hit with everyone (I managed to actually eat TWO hot dogs!)

 Russell has been telling me he wants a car cake. So I looked around on pinterest and found one that looked relatively easy. The hardest part was Russell wouldn't leave me alone while I was making it.

 Some of our friends from the ward who live close came over and had cake and ice cream with us. Good things because two cars ended up being more cake than just the four of us could eat.

Russell was thrilled with his presents. He has been wanting those trains for weeks and weeks and kept telling me he needed the big trains to add to his train collection. When he opened the first one he squealed and twirled around in circles while staring longingly at it. I was worried he wouldn't open up his diggers. He also had to have his trains watch over him when he went to bed.