Finally!!!! 10 years old!!

C is finally in the double digits club!! He is so very excited!! He has been eagerly anticipating this day for nearly a year. (I remember back in September he told someone that he was "nearly 10".) Now if his mom will let him, he can play the 10 and up video games. Here's some pictures from his friend party and family party.

C's family cake that B baked and decorated for him.

C has a bunch of his buddies come over to the house for a movie night sleep over. Yep, they stayed up until the wee hours of the night playing video games and watching action movies. (I love the fact that this modern kids really loved the old 1980's movie Short Circuit. THey also watched the cartoon Star Wars movie Clone Wars, Iron Man and Speed Racer.) Each kid had their own bucket of "movie popcorn" movie candy, and pop. One friend said that I was the coolest Mom ever when he found out that they were going to watch more than one movie and could stay up really late and watch as many as they wanted. (At 2:30 am I made the last stragglers who were playing a pokemon card game go to sleep.)

The boys playing a pokemon battle game on the Wii.


C hamming it up as we sing Happy Birthday to him.

Yes, there is a big slice out of C's Birthday cake. I ran out of time, so I let him buy a cake. It was pretty cool. I took the cake out of the box and had it on the kitchen table. I then I needed to get the cool new candles I bought so I left the kitchen for a few minutes. In that brief 2 minutes, our dog, Queenie, who has not done this before, jumped up on the table and took a small bite out of the side of the cake. Well there's not much I could do with a house full of kids and I've already made the announcement that 10 minutes before do the cake. So I cut generously around the bite, put the candles on and made the best of it.

(I kinda laughed because something like this happened to my sisters' cake for my birthday this summer. She left it on a chair on the deck and Cricket thought it was very tasty.)

This is such classic 10 year old boy humor that I had to get a picture. Chris thought it was hilarious and there were several other cards and bags in the same vein of humor.

All in all it was a very fun birthday. C and his friends had a great time.