Jacob is 5 years old!

Jacob's  birthday celebration lasted about a week. It began on Saturday March 21st and ended Thursday, March 26Th.

On Saturday his Grandma and Grandpa Lewis, Aunt Elaine and Cousin Jessica, Nana, and Mom and Dad had a small party to celebrate as a family. This year we all pitched in to buy him a Nintendo DS. Steve and I love electronics and video games so we decided to share that joy with Jacob early in life. :)

I love the emotion captured in these pictures. When he realized that the machine was his and that he had gotten the same games that his friend Benjamin has, Oh he was happy!

He also received a new set of bases and a tee-ball stand from Aunt Elaine and Cousin Jessica. He loves to play sports. This will make it much easier to run the bases then stepping on sticks and using the trees in the yard. Oh course we had to try them out right away.


The cake decorating was a group effort. Jacob specifically asked for a mountain race track themed cake. So using all natural ingredients, no chemicals or colored dyes, this is what Nana come up with. Jake loved it! It tasted amazing. Way to go Nana!

On Thursday, March 26Th, Jacob's actual birthday we had a great day. We slept in ... which is not different from any other day ... then I allowed him to have a granola bar with chocolate chips and an oatmeal flax seed cookie for breakfast. He was in heaven. He loves chocolate. We had Wendy's for lunch ... yuck, but it was his birthday. We went to Party America and purchased a very large #5 balloon bouquet. He got a haircut, we took his 5 year old picture with his balloons, and he was allowed to play his DS and watch cartoons while I made the pizza doughs for his party later that night.

At 5:30pm The Robertson Family arrived all 7.5 of them. Anaise is expecting baby #6 in a few months. I had invited another family that had 4 boys in order to make it an even gender mix but they had to cancel due to illness. Jacob and the girls still had a great time. I'm sure Jake didn't mind being the only boy, he is such a ladies man. ;)

Nana made a second cake for this party with the same ingredients as the first. It was just as delicious as the first one. 

There was plenty of squealing, laughter, running around, and general goofing off. They played ping pong, sang happy birthday and presented Jake with his gift. It was a great art set with markers, crayons, scissors, glue and a large sketch pad. It came in a nice hard carrying case.Each of the girls had created a handwritten birthday card for him and Steve had a all kids giggling as he tried to read each one.  Jake loved it.

We all had a great week. Happy 5th Birthday Jacob!