We have a 5 year old

Jonathan's birthday was a blast, and also a bit crazy for John and me. I guess we're old now. . . We gave him a super duper cooler than ever Spider-Man bike (4 bucks at a yard sale last summer,) and the pictures show pretty well how much he loved it.

This kind of thing is super fun as a parent.

Seth cracks me up.

Jonathan was a born natural. And so proud that he could acutally do it.

I love these guys.

Jonathan also loved the very well chosen gifts from his grandparents - Thank you again! It was a perfect birthday for him. We did his cake in a cookie sheet (cooks in half the time, and also extra fun to decorate or make shapes with.)

We let the boys go to town on the frosting.

It took him about 10 GIANT blows before he finally aimed right at the candles. . .

and got them all blown out. . .

But that just makes for a whole lot of satisfaction at the end. :)

We went out for his birthday dinner to our favorite little Chinese restaurant, where the nice Chinese waiter/owner told us that in China the whole group has noodles for the birthday dinner. "Long noodles = Long life."

His favorite food is noodles anyway, so it worked out great. It was an awesome day. It's pretty cool having a 5 year old boy.