Dude's actual birthday

Oh man. I can't believe that Dude is SIX!  WHAT?!  This year I decided that I should throw him a party because I haven't thrown the kids a party since their dol. I also thought that it would be nice to have a get together and celebrate since Oma Oma and Karl-Jan were in town as well.  I forgot how much work parties are.... and we didn't even have that many people going!  Pinterest is a dangerous dangerous thing for party planning!  So many cute ideas!  At first we were trying to keep it a secret, and we did until that morning.  I knew that we weren't going to be able to set up without him asking what was going on so we just told him.  He didn't seem real excited about the idea until people started showing up.  Then... OH MY.







































On his actual birthday we had the Mins over for breakfast for a little bit of celebrating... I made crepes per Dude's request.  Then, they stayed and played for the morning while Dude battled people for his badges.  We thought that he would love having the actual badges from the different gyms since he was making them out of paper and leaving them EVERYWHERE.  He had a ton of fun battling people for the badges.





I wasn't going to make him a birthday cake because my Mom always makes the best, but he kept saying that it wasn't a real birthday until there was a cake.  So... I made him a cake.  I think that he was pretty pleased with his Raichu cake, and I was pretty happy that it turned out so well on such short planning.

Happy birthday to my sweet boy.

JVG