Gavin's 4th Birthday!

Well this seems about right.  I do his post almost 2 months late!  What happened to my new years resolution of blogging more?  Oh yea, life.....& this strangely beautiful weather we are having!  So here goes...

Gavin awoke on his birthday to this:

Let me back track a minute.  When I was a child, my Mother was very strict with our sugar/soda intake.   We got sodas very rarely - like when we went out for dinner which was  about 1 -2 x a month.  Sweets?  What is that?  So my Mother would surprise us with Hostess Cupcakes and a candle on our birthday.  So I decided to do it for Gavin!  Of course it was on a dinosaur plate with a dinosaur candle on top.  He was VERY surprised and loved it!

His birthday landed on a Thursday, so he went to school and I hosted a pizza and cake pop party for him, complete with dinosaur plates!  The kids all loved it and Gavin had a ton of fun!

Here he is in the middle of the table getting a head shake from the owner of the school- Mr. PJ.

That night he got to pick where he wanted to go to dinner, it has always been tradition that we would go to Gunther Toodys, but this year we let him pick.  So of course he chose the place "with the fountain".  Which is La Placita.  The kid that does not like Mexican food, picked a Mexican food restaurant.  Oh well.

That weekend we hosted a party for him, and all his favorite people were there.  He had a ball.  And the cake???  The CAKE WAS AWESOME!  He loved it and so did everyone else.  It was a great time and he got a lot of wonderful gifts!

Sloan with her new favorite person-Michael!

It was a great 4th birthday for the dinosaur boy!  Yea!