It is Birthday season for us, and here is an update. James is now one. He enjoyed his cake and presents. We had a little birthday party planned, but had to cancel it because he got a substantial fever the day before, so his big day ended up pretty low-key. He enjoyed his cake after he got past the sticky frosting. He liked to have his fingers wiped off every few minutes so they could move more freely. I love birthdays with my kids, it is fun to go back through photos and watch them grow.

Lucas is now four proud of it. He wanted to go to the movie theatre, so we all went to see Cloudy with a Chance of Meet balls. It was fun for everyone, James didn't even squirm. We had the whole theatre to ourselves. The magic formula: a Monday matinee for an older movie. Ahhhhhh, it was relaxing to not worry about bothering others. Then we went to dinner at a steak house themed on airplanes. We thought we would get to watch them take off and land, but everyone needed to be 18 to go to the lounge, and Lucas isn't quite there. We watched a few planes taxi around then left for home.

Lucas and Adam helped to decorate the cake. I found out that you can't add food coloring to cool whip without making it go very flat, so we had runny topping for the cake. There was some cake that was still exposed, so Lucas decided that part of the jungle cake was water and put the elephant in it to get a drink. It wasn't my cutest cake ever, but it was fun to let him help.

Lucas was a little spoiled that night and got to stay up rather late to fight Dad with his new swords. Then they both were so enthralled by the hot wheels tracks, the ice cream melted before they made it to cake in their bowls.