Today is Ethan’s 12 birthday, and we had such a crazy evening. First of all, the girls and I had our weekly Girl Scout meeting, then we had a window of time to celebrate in before I had to be at a Boy Scout committee meeting. So we decided ahead of time that we would be buying pizza for his birthday dinner, instead of making it. During Girl Scouts, Kyle took the non-Girl scouts to go pick up the pizza. When they got back the girls had all left and we sent all the kids to the table for dinner. I thought it would be fun to put the birthday candles on the pizza, since we decided to not have a cake tonight, but to have it on the weekend when everyone comes out for his ordination.
I did make him a cookie pizza though. For the record, trying to use chocolate syrup to write “Happy Bday Ethan” was not a good idea. It’s quite runny and comes out quite fast, and then it all just ran together so that you can’t tell what I wrote. I tried to use m&m’s to make the words a little clearer, but it was still quite messy.
After dinner we gave Ethan his present. Kyle bought it before Christmas, and I think he had originally intended to give it to him for Christmas, but Ethan found out back in November that Kyle had bought it. Kyle thought it would be funny to have it just not appear at Christmas time, considering Ethan would have been expecting it. So we were mean parents and made him wait until his birthday before receiving it.
