Happy 5th Birthday, Vito Jr.

Happy birthday to my big boy, Vito Jr. He had many birthday celebrations this year - three in fact. It started with chocolate cupcakes (with blue frosting by request) at school. Sorry no pictures - I guess he is getting too big for that.

Then we celebrated with the family at home.

Here he is showing us how old he is

Blowing out the candles

Posing with his presents

I can tell he is getting older, because I recognize less and less of his presents. This year was all Transformers and Bakugans (balls that transform into stuff when they are on the magnetic cards)
OK, can you tell this is Anna writing and not Vito? - He knows all this crap!

Good thing is he is still not too old to feel weird about giving Mommy a kiss. And he closed his mouth by the time the kiss was given!

Then on Friday, he was called up to celebrate at the morning assembly. Here he is:

Then we had a party at our house with some friends. He was so excited, but let Mommy get a picture in:


But then, being a BIG boy, he had to take a picture of Mommy:

We had lots of good food - pizza, veggies and dip and fruit:


And made-to-order brownie sundaes (which was a great idea from our friend Monica) and a huge hit with the kids!


And here is the whole crew of kids - Lars, Andrew, Vito Jr and Holden in the front row, Katie, Brianne and Flynn in the back row.

Of course, now he thinks he has moved into the BIG boy category - which brings with it a whole new set of things he is able to do - such as using a knife and being allowed to put DVDs into the player. Well, they have to start somewhere.