More Birthday...

Let me tell you...the 5 year old boy in our house has been properly (if not overly) celebrated this year!  We had his 'friend' party today at the zoo.  I can't say enough how easy and nice the people at the zoo were to work with!  We had great weather and a great time!  After all the party guests arrived, we made our way through the zoo together, rode the train and made it back to our reserved area for lunch.

The Party Goers (minus a couple stroller riders)

Checking out some animals (And Nora tickling Mayleigh)

The penguins are always a big hit

Ethan, feeding the goats

More goat fun!

Nora feeding a goat

Monkey bars by the spider monkeys

Loved riding the train next to this girl!

Some of the boys on the train!

Flamingo Nora

Having some lunch

Ethan wanted a LEGO police cake.  This was our compromise...he got a ginormo cupcake with some LEGO pieces on it and regular cupcakes for the rest of us.

Waiting patiently for cupcakes

Chocolate mustache aftermath

Present time

Happy boy!

Brennan and Ethan; doing math problems together :).  Apparently they like to do math problems when they get together, so Brennan made him a card with some on it!  How cute is that?!?

Our reserved deck/area was in the zoo, near all the action.  So it was really nice that the kids could run over and look at a few animals, and we could still see them.  Also, this peacock was all spread out (for a while) so they all went over to check it out...and then chase him!

Chasing peacocks!  

It was a great day and a fun time was had by all!  Ethan was so happy, which makes us happy!  He even climbed up to pose for this picture :)!

Happy 5th Birthday, Ethan James!