Scenes from the birthday

Now that we got the big surprise over with in the last post, here are some more photos/videos from Lucas's 10th birthday. As you may recall, his regular party was cancelled. However, because he was at his best behavior most of the time ever since the guitar incident, we let him have a smaller get-together for his big day.

Marilu picked up Lucas and 3 of his best friends from school and they went to see Cars 3, which as luck would have it opened on his birthday. Afterwards, they came back to the house for a couple hours of play as well as pizza and cake.

For the cake, Lucas decided he wanted MY favorite cake, the always popular Coca-Cola cake that I've had for most of my birthdays since I was a kid. It's not fancy, but damn, it's tasty.

The obligatory singing video, which goes on much longer than when I was a kid.

And yes, he was eating a cucumber while blowing out his candles.

After the singing and candles, I took a few pictures before the boys dug in.

And here's a final shot of Lucas laughing with Parker while opening his presents.

Over the weekend, I asked Lucas is he would have rather had the large party, and he said that he really liked the smaller version. I'll tell you this, it was a lot less work for me and Marilu since we were going to have to run a bunch of events so we weren't complaining. Odds are, this is more like what the parties will be like going forward so I guess we'll just have to get used to it. He's already thinking about a sleepover next year so that ought to be...interesting.