The night before Luke's birthday party
making the dump truck cake (inspired by Hailey)
Waiting for Luke to wake up
Luke's reaction to his cake (translation for ga-cited is excited)
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Luke helped me make the dirt and then thought he should test it just to make sure
THE PARTY
Since Luke is a "bouncing off the walls" type of kid - we thought this would be heaven for him. And we were right. He was so happy. And Joey even took a couple hours off to come and join us
The Birthday Boy
The Partiers
Graham, Addie, Laker, Avary, Max & Aiden
Jana, Jackson, Jerianne, Sheri, Dawson, Lezlie, Addie & Lucy
It was almost impossible to get Luke to leave Pump It Up. But the promise of eating birthday cake was the ticket. When we got home, I was busy getting lunch for our guests and noticed a little sneaky Luke at table. I stopped to watch him. He would look around and then lean over and take a nibble of the graham cracker. I told him not to eat the cake just yet and he looked at me and it was like he had no control. He would just move forward and oops - he was eating the cake again.
Meanwhile everyone else was having a pizza picnic
The big moment came and everyone sang to Luke. He got so excited when he was blowing out his candles that he spit all over the cake!
Waiting for their cake and ice cream
Back: Amanda, Melanie, Jana (and Macie), Sarah (with Calvin and Max) and Joes
Front: Avary, Aiden, Laker, Starley and McKinley
Here are some happy birthday songs and a CRAZY present scene. Ok, so Luke is a pretty focused kid and if he sees something he wants, he has a hard time switching gears. So, he opens a present that he's excited about and nothing else matters. He ONLY wants to play with THAT present. So, his friends were trying so hard to get him to open presents and he just didn't want to. He did this last year too. So, what ended up happening is he let the other kids open the presents for him. It was a little overwhelming for him. But he sure is LOVING all them now. He spent the rest of the day focused on playing with toys. He gave each present a good amount of time and then moved to the next. He went to bed around 10:30.
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9 comments:
What a fun birthday! I love your new main blog picture. What got them to look like that? Happy birthday, Luke!
That "Lukes" like a lot of fun.
Wow! Katie & Joey you did a great job on the truck cake! Looking at the pictures taken from every angle . . we feel like we were there!
You will soon be here!!! Can't wait to give little Lucy a squeeze - and Luke, too, if we can catch him.
katie -- your cake rocks my world. kudos.
also, is that jerriane i see in your pics? is she stalking you or something?
luvs to triple threat luke!
What a cute cake! Oh, and the kid is pretty cute too...
I can't believe we missed Luke's birthday! I really love that guy and it's been forever! So fun to see all those great people I love in those pictures!
oh i kind of yipped for joy when i saw your cuties in the picture on top of your blog. they are so CUTE!!! happy birthday luke man, so glad you were so gah-cited!
Gorgeous new header photo! And I love the dump truck cake. See you guys soon.
Yay! I'm so happy to see the dump truck cake reborn! You guys did awesome. I think I am going to make it for Henry's B-day in June.
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