Quite a birthday!

Colten's birthday party was this last Saturday and it was lots of fun, with some cancelations and meltdowns thrown in. The weather was perfect. It was in the 70's and beautiful. Colten had a great time decorating his "Candyland" cake.

Colten also had a meltdown right as we were expecting people to arrive. Colten was adamant that he didn't want to grow up and therefore didn't want a birthday party. After calming him down we realized that he thought he would grow up big like daddy, but in a day! Tony and I explained to him that he wouldn't grow that much just because he was turning 5! He mellowed out enough to enjoy the party.

Colten's favorite part of the party was, of course, the presents! We got lucky this year and didn't recieve any annoying noisy ones!! Thanks girlfriends for the wonderful gifts he did get. With the wonderful weather he did get to try out his new bubble gun and got the cats to chase the bubbles outside.

It was a long day with several people who had RSVPed and said they would be there and then at 2:00 (when the party was supposed to start!) called and said they couldn't make it. What really gets me is the reasons they gave! Ok, the family with the sick kid is excused, though I've never had an event when their kid was healthy! What gets me is the parents who cancelled because the weather was nice and the family was working outside or had family in town and were spending time visiting with them. It makes me really mad that I spent all the money and time putting together goodie bags for all the family. Colten was disappointed that some of his friends weren't there.