Happy Birthday, Daddy

We celebrated Mikel's birthday Wednesday with a homemade chocolate cake, handmade presents from the children and eating out for dinner.

The children spent a good bit of time Monday and Tuesday making Mikel's presents. Anna wanted to make him a wand (the same as what she asked for and received for her birthday), while Alexander wanted to make Daddy a car. I thought, "We can do this!" So we did the best we could with empty paper towel tubes, a shoe box, construction paper, tape, markers, glitter, glue sticks and colored pipe-cleaner things used in art projects. Alexander even drew a picture of Daddy behind the wheel (see photo), his first stick man drawing that I know of.




Alexander's tastes are evolving. He now likes chocolate, as you can see. I remember last year while making Mikel's chocolate birthday cake Alexander declared "I no like choklit."