Charlie's 4th Birthday

Yesterday was Charlie's 4th birthday. It's hard to believe that my sweet smiley Charlie is a big boy now.
His birthday was all about him. He got so many calls to wish him happy birthday and he loved every minute of it. He got to spend the morning with his Gram. They played so many board games and then he got to play MLB on Uncle Dan's Playstation. He got to eat treats and then after we picked up Tom from school he chose to eat a happy meal for lunch.

For his real birthday treat he picked dinner at Applebee's and then a trip to the Nickel-Cade.

He was so excited when he went in he kept running around to all the video games, not sure of what he wanted to play first. He picked a gun game first. Here are pictures of the kids playing the games. It was a fun evening and we only spent $9.50 to get us all in and we used $4.00 of nickels to play all the games we could handle. So fun!

Here's Tom playing a racing game. A favorite for sure.

This is Charlie playing a fighter jet game. Tom played it first and kept picking the training round to play rather than a real game. That lost his interest really fast.

Here's Brianna showing Chuck how to play the boxing game. (She really didn't want to have her picture taken.)

This is Brianna and Charles playing a Big Rig game. Charlie was so interested in this game that he even went and sat on the bench seat with some strange guy while he was playing. Chuck is not afraid of strangers or overstepping his boundries.

Some of the games gave out tickets that you could collect and turn in for a prize. After all of our playing, the five of us collected 23 tickets. The boys (well Charlie was still really pumped up about all the games that he couldn't focus long enough) went to the counter to pick a prize and of course they wanted the one that was 250 tickets. I kept telling Tom that he could only pick from the 5 buckets in front. He was really dissapointed, and really wanted the Spider Man. The girl working there took pitty on him and gave him the 250 ticket blow-up Spider Man.

Here's Brianna, in charge of inflating our new toy.

The boys can hardly wait for her to finish so they can play with it on our way home.

When we got home we sang to Charlie and then ate cupcakes with super hero rings.

Tom picked one that had red frosting and it looked like he was wearing lipstick. Such a cheese for the camera.

Here's Charlie with his new Spider Man friend. He hasn't put it down since we got him and even asked if he could sleep with him last night. This might have been the BEST birthday EVER.