Alex's Birthday Party Part 2

Here are our adventures in food. I always like to find creative food things for the kids to do, but as always, they like making the stuff but don't really want to eat it when their done. :) That's ok, as long as they had fun!


At this station (doesn't that sound like a teacher) they were making faces. I gave each child a caramel rice cake with peanut butter on top (which I think is really yummy!), and they were to use the m&m's, raisins and peal and pull Twizzlers to make a face. They turned out really cute, but no one really ate them. Maybe they just didn't want to each someone's face?

They also made fruit kabobs using strawberries, bananas, grapes and apples. They really liked trying to skewer/stab the fruit. :) And Alex didn't even skewer his hand or poke himself, or anyone else, in the eye! ;)

This is Alex opening up his first present. It was from his big brother Brannon. With a little help from mom ;), Brannon got Alex a Backyardigains DVD. As you can tell, Alex was VERY proud of his new movie! Actually, for most of the summer Alex said that he wanted a Backyardigains birthday party. Brannon was never into the Backyardigains, but Alex LOVES them. His favorite character is Pablo. He has a Pablo Beanie Baby that he sleeps with at night. It is SO cute to listen to him talk about the Backyardigains. He is very quick to point out who everyone is!

Alex got 2 musical cards for his birthday. The cards are like gifts to him! :) Nana and PaPaw got him a really funny one with those silly bunnies chanting and cheering about ice cream and cake. We got him one with Kung Fu Panda on it that played, "Everybody was kung fu fighting". He has already broken the Kung Fu Panda one because he kept opening and closing it really fast and hard. It was SO funny this year with Alex and his cards. He was really good at getting them out and opening them before he opened the present. He would open then and "read", "Happy Birthday Alex", and then shut them really fast and put them to the side. :)