Joey's 5th Birthday

Joey turns 5 on Thursday, but in the interest of keeping his birthday separate from Halloween, we had his party on Saturday. It was a very small get-together with us and his grandparents, so basically he was surrounded by the seven people in his life that love him the most. It was quite a good day!

We went with a Star Wars Lego theme (well, interspersed with our fall decorations) this year since that perfectly captures both of his main interests.

The whole week before his birthday, I had Joey put together all of his Star Wars Lego sets. Then we used those to decorate the house. This is the cool flying scene above the food table that Andy's mom worked on the night before.

Joey requested that my mom make him Whoopie Pies for his cake, and I decorated them with Storm Troopers, Thai Sen, R2D2, and Rebel Troopers.

The theme even carried into present opening time.

This HUGE Star Wars Lego set (Boba Fett's Slave I) took Joey and Andy about 2 hours to complete. It's awesome!
My mom took Joey to Legoland a month or so ago and had this picture drawn of him as Lego Yoda.
And here's part of his Halloween costume for this year.

The whole week before his party, Joey kept telling Hannah that he would let her open one of his presents. To be honest, I really didn't think he would come through with that promise once he was in the heat of present opening time. It turns out, he was good to his word, and Hannah was thrilled!

After the party, we tried to take a family photo. Joey did surprisingly well, but Hannah was in quite the goof-ball mood and wouldn't even look at the camera. Looks like the tables have turned from photo shoots in the past!