Our oldest reached the decade milestone this week. Double digits! Great Wolf Lodge was their gift/party, but we still saved some celebrations for home. The day before their birthday, they were very sweet to each other. They went on a scooter ride together through the neighborhood, "one last time as 9 year olds," and, they even hugged each other goodnight. They wanted to have a sleepover, but since it was a school night, we had to say no.
On Tuesday, their actual birthday, we had Jack's requested dinner, stuffed crust Pizza Hut pizza (again) and Anna's cake, a homemade cookies and cream ice cream cake. Originally, I had thought about doing cupcakes with their neighborhood friends, but ultimately, we decided to just ask the Wills family to join us for pizza.
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| Seeing this picture makes me want another one of these cakes. |
The kids used their allowance to get each other presents. Jack and Kara joined forces to buy Anna Hufflepuff robes. Kara got Jack Disney Infinity 2 for the Wii and Anna got Jack Army Men. We held true to our promise that they can choose between a party, an outing, or a nice gift. We did get them small birthday gifts, a shirt and book for Jack and a shirt and hair bow for Anna, I think it came out to less than $10/each, so I am saying close enough. They were mostly happy with what they got, although Anna did make a minor complaint that she didn't get any toys. You can't win them all! The Wills gave them giftcards for the movie theater and they got some money from relatives, so they were pretty spoiled when all was said and done.
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| Luke got to "help" Anna open her presents, he looked forward to this all day. |
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| In addition to his other gifts, Kara wrote Jack a story, "Snoopy and Not the Red Baron". Destined to be a classic. |
On Friday night, we had Anna's chosen meal of loaded beef nachos and Jack's "Deathly Hallows" cake. His only cake request was that it have the Deathly Hallows symbol. I ended up taking the easy way out and ordering an icing sheet for his cake. I did make him a homemade chocolate cake with buttercream icing, but the decorating was a definite shortcut, although he was happy. The kids probably don't realize the amount of time I put into their cakes when I wasn't working. I would literally spend hours planning and executing. They didn't always look like that amount of time went into them (I recognize that I lack artistic talent), but it did.
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| Anna's beefy nachos |
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| Jack's Deathly Hallows cake. |
As I have seen others do, in honor of their 10th birthday, here are ten things about each of them:
Anna:
1) Wants to be a vet when she grows up
2) Is an excellent, conscientious student
3) Loves to read
4) Gets joy from helping others
5) Is a new fan of JoJo Siwa (a teenage YouTube "celebrity")
6) Has strong feelings on just about everything
7) Has a tendency to be messy
8) Is good at reading other people's emotions
9) Has a lovely singing voice
10) Is protective of her siblings
Jack:
1) Loves to read
2) Is a huge Star Wars fan
3) Enjoys anything that has to do with early American History
4) Wants to be a war reenactor
5) Wants to be a politician when he grows up (despite our best efforts to convince him otherwise)
6) Is the hero of many little kids in our neighborhood
7) Loves to play Disney Infinity on the Wii U and with his Army Men
8) Can name all the Presidents in order
9) Has a quiet, introverted personality
10) Is a really smart student who has a goal of getting straight As
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