Elijah's Fifth Birthday

This year, Eli's birthday was the most exciting yet. He was old enough to anticipate it and enjoy all the accompanying activities. His birthday week included: special grandma days, celebrating at school, birthday dinner at IHOP, and his first birthday party with kids. One of my favorite parts of the week was making chocolate, chocolate, chocolate cupcakes with him to bring to school. He carefully iced each cupcake while occassionally sampling some of the yumminess for himself. After finishing the cupcakes, he performed a chocolate-covered celebratory birthday dance.