Ben and Ethan are 5yrs old!!!!

Happy birthday to Ben and Ethan!!! 5 years old!!
Where has the time gone?!

Their actual birthday (Friday 3rd May) was spent at preschool. They got up early and exchanged presents they had bought each other. Ethan bought Ben a snakes and ladders game and some Lego. Ben bought Ethan a fireman Sam fire extinguisher (that squirts water) and a book. We took them shopping separately to buy gifts for each other last week.
They spent the day at preschool and ate the cakes we made for them at preschool.

When they came home we gave them presents from us (as Sal had to work at 7am we didn't do it in the morning) and had a special dinner of their choice. Ethan chose hamburgers, Ben chose mashed potato and corn and meatballs. We had a mixture of that! Aunty Shell came over on Friday evening to celebrate with us and help with party prep for Saturdays party.

We gave Ben and Ethan a few small presents, including a t-shirt, pencil box, wii game and foosball (table top football). Their main present was a day at the zoo a few weeks ago.


On Saturday we had their party. They invited 9 friends from preschool, twin friends and swimming lessons. We had fantastic weather and a great party. We had the jumping castle, played pass the parcel, musical chairs and stick the balloon on the right spot (variation of pin the tail on the donkey).
We ate fruit kebabs, chips, popcorn, yoghurt, jelly, finger sandwiches (and wraps for adults) mini pizza, mini quiches, mini chicken sausage rolls and of course cake! We made most of the food ourselves and enjoyed a party with reasonably healthy food options :)
The boys had a wonderful time and received many wonderful presents. It was a massive amount of work for us, but fun was had by all :)

Ethan chose a banana flavoured Fireman Sam cake and Ben chose a chocolate Spider-Man cake. They were both happy with the end result. My lovely friend Caroline works as a cake decorator and printed the picture for Ethan's cake on edible fondant. Apart from that picture, the rest of the party was done with no artificial colours, flavours or preservatives - something that we still try to achieve within our daily life :)