Dr Seuss Brings a Happy 1st Birthday!

We had a full birthday party planned...
with all the food...
and fun!
But then my sweet Chelsea came down with the stomach flu!
We had to cancel the party!
My kids were devastated!
They cried and cried...."How could you cancel his first birthday?"
No matter how hard I tried to explain, that no one wants to catch the stomach flu!
They were just sad!
So that night, Chelsea was feeling better, so we decided to go ahead and sing Happy Birthday and let Brady have his Birthday Cake!

It was gigantic for him!
I wanted him to just dig in and attack....make a BIG mess!

But instead he just took the smallest little bites!

We decided to go ahead and all share the cake...

I just served the kids right on the table!
No plates!

Mark threw Brooke her cake!

Ice cream
Chocolate Syrup
Sprinkles
was all served right on the table!

The mood was set...the kids were loving every minute!
We had successfully turned the frowns upside down...
SMILES AND GIGGLES EVERYWHERE!

Brady finally got into the excitement and was completely attacking his piece of cake!

Brooke was so anxious to have Brady cover himself in cake...that she picked up a piece and smashed in his face!

I figured for a little harmless fun I would smash some cake in Brooke's face!

I should have known better....
I turned around to have Brooke smash a piece of cake in my face!

As you can now imagine...my sweet little Dr. Seuss Birthday singing moment...
turned into...

An ALL OUT CAKE FIGHT!

Thank goodness for plastic table cloths and tile...it cleaned up easy...and was well worth the mess!
We were all covered in cake...and ice cream...and my side hurt from laughing!

After a BIG hug, from DAD...he surprised Chelsea with putting her in the shower with her clothes on!
We were not about to switch back to normal!

She tried to escape...but we got her back in!

All the kids decided to shower fully dressed!

That night as I read the scriptures to the kids...they said,
"MOM, we are sorry for pouting about the party, we had a BLAST!"

*Notice: Chelsea dressed like a boy to fit the theme of the week....
Nothing has been quite right around here!