After dinner we started the celebrations. (It was Rebekah's week to do dishes, which explains the dark pink sleeves and spots on her tummy!) Rebekah got started on her presents right away. Chad wasn't quite ready for the fun to start yet.
Since Sarah was now a birthday veteran, she qualified for helping to open presents.
Rebekah really liked the new bicycle helmet she got. But her favorite gift was the package of gum. We look forward to our fifth birthdays in our family (when chewing gum becomes a permitted activity). That pack of gum was gone in a week!
Of course, there was cake (even though we'd just had one three days ago). Rebekah had been extremely indecisive about what kind of cake she wanted. Eventually, I just told her I wasn't taking any more requests or suggestions...she would just have to be surprised.
The danger of having your cake done by your mother is that she gets tired while decorating it at 10 PM. So if the pink frosting runs out, she probably won't be able to match it (and likely won't try too hard anyway). It was still very sugary...which is all that really matters.
We were having a bees and flowers theme this year, it seemed.
And regardless of what it looked like, it still held up 5 candles long enough for them to be wished over and blown out. Isn't that it's function?
Gazing longingly at the cake. We imagine that it tastes good enough to make it worth the wait!
Rebekah got to cut the cake. You should have seen the monster pieces she was carving!
It hasn't been so long that Sarah has forgotten what birthday cake tastes like. This girl is excited for her piece of sugar! "Hey, Sarah...you're supposed to eat all your dinner before you get cake!"
We were good (or caked-out this week); we only ate half of the cake. Of course, it was a 12" cake. It's cut in funny angles because we were serving up specific portions of the cake to specific requests.
Our version of line dancing. Gotta work off that cake!
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