Alex Turns 6

Alex turned 6 in March. (Yes, I know that was 4 months ago...)

For his birthday we requested a swimming pool cake. I've made them for Mary in the past and can probably make them for years to come since the cocktail umbrellas came in a package of 300. This year I went for a figure 8 instead of the standard rectangle.

He invited a friend from Primary over. We went to a little arcade place called Nickel-A-Play (with an entry fee we didn't know about). A lot of the games were free, but we did take along nickels for the skee-ball (is that spelled right?) and little basketball and stuff. We had a good time, though you'd have to practically live there to get enough tickets to really get a good prize, which seemed to be the strategy of several people there. By the time we divided the tickets between 4 kids we came home with a few cheapo army men that have all lost at least 1 limb and/or their guns, about 3 of the teeniest Tootsie Rolls you've ever seen, and a small Chinese fan that has subsequently been lost. Oh well. We had a blast, and I'm even somewhat good at skee-ball. (Not as good as Doug, but we won't dwell on that. I can beat him at air hockey.)

After that we got some pizza and came home for cake and possibly ice cream. I don't remember.

So my cheapo camera (ViviCam X016 so you can avoid this if at all possible) made Alex look drugged in most of the pictures... So just trust me when I say he enjoyed his presents, which included a Spiderman T-shirt, some more army men, a little monster truck, and money, which turned into Transformers and Bakugans (little robot thingies squished into spheres, cubes, etc.).

And as a side note. I'm now going to bed. I'll have to catch up another time, and hopefully Blogger will cooperate better when I'm trying to upload my photos. We also got a better camera today. Did you know if you buy the ugly green cameras on Amazon they're cheaper than the silver or red??? I'll take ugly green if it saves me money.