birthday parties, robot cakes, and ear tubes, oh my!

It's been quite a week - and it's only Tuesday!


Last Friday, we took cupcakes to Will's preschool to celebrate his birthday. For birthday's, parents are supposed to bring in a poster highlighting your kid's first few years. Here's my feeble attempt - Glenn drew the fire truck. I baked about 40 cupcakes the night before. While I was downstairs running on the treadmill and Glenn was giving Reina a bath, we were hit by a cupcake bandit. This nefarious felon licked the tops of 8 cupcakes before making his escape. Any ideas who that could be? Apparently, my instructions to "don't move any of the cupcakes" wasn't clear enough. Here's Will getting the globe to begin the Montessori birthday celebration.
Any guesses as to what's happening in this picture? His classmates sang happy birthday and Will turned the same color as his shirt.
Cupcake time!
Sunday, we celebrated Will's birthday with a couple of his friends and one giant scary robot cake. It was the first time he had some friends from school over to visit and it went surprisingly well. There were very few tears and no blood. Will received some great presents and he's been very busy for the last couple of days playing with everything.


Awww, Glenn's sitting at the kid's table. I think they were either debating healthcare reform or how much they love cheetos.
More party guests!
ACK! It's the scary robot cake! For posterity, I have to point out that this cake took about 5 hours to assemble and decorate. We went through 3 jars of frosting, too. Yum. Here's what it was supposed to look like. How did I do?

Today, Will and Reina had minor surgery for ear tube placement and Will also had his adenoids taken out. Grandpa Hansen aka Pop-pop came with us to help with the logistics. Both kids did pretty well. Reina didn't even cry when she woke up from the anesthetic. She did cry when Pop-pop handed her over to me but stopped just as quickly when I handed her back to him. She and I are going to have a discussion about that. Will was pretty upset afterwards. The adenoid removal isn't invasive but apparently leaves you with a pretty sore throat. As luck would have it, both Toy Story movies were re-released today (thank you Pixar!) so Aunt Vicky picked those up for us on her lunch hour. Needless to say, it's been a quiet afternoon. Glenn and I are both hopeful that this round of ear tubes will end our streak of ear infections for the near future.