Hyrum is FIVE

and ready to take on the world!

I can't believe my little Hyrum, my baby, is five years old!
He has promised that no matter how old and big he gets he will always be my baby.

He is a little ob-Seussed.  Every morning he makes sure he is dressed and had his breakfast so that he can plant his bootie in front of the TV for Cat in the Hat on PBS.  At first I felt guilty allowing the addiction to start but since it has led to an obsession with Dr. Seuss books and he has started passing on his tidbits of new Cat in the Hat nature knowledge to the rest of us,  I'm okay with it.

Usually, the kids don't know what kind of birthday party we are having for them until the day of the party.  This is more for the benefit of the little boys who daily change their mind on what kind of party they want.  I spend about a week asking what kind of party they want and after about five suggestions I pick one and surprise them.  This time it was different.  Hyrum didn't change his mind.  He wanted a Cat in the Hat party.  He was so excited as we sat with red, white and black poster board and a Sharpie and the Cat in the Hat became a life size dart board.  He used every ounce of lung strength to blow up the balloons (See that red one in the top stripe of the hat?  He blew it up all by himself!) and he cut out his own clippings of poster board to tape around the Cat.  He was insistent that as darts were thrown/blown that we did not his the Cat in the face (top left picture).  After everyone else had a turn he popped the last two balloons at close range with slow, careful, acupuncture precision.

We spent time in our reading looking for foods mentioned in the Seuss books.  This became our menu.

Hop on PopCorn  - caramel popcorn
Diffendoofer Salad - green salad
Yot in a Pot - sweet & sour chicken
Sneetch Treats - chicken nuggets
Assorted Greens and Other Things - vegetables
Who Hash - fried rice (not pictured)
Seuss-shi - fruit roll ups
One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish - duh
Truffula Sticks - fruit kabobs
Beezlenut Juice - bug juice

To top it all off, we made edible hats....Cat in the Hat style.

The Cake.  Derek and Nathan fought over the fondant tie.

He did have one birthday candle girlfriend but he couldn't decide which of his favorite girls it would be.

Along with his ob-seuss-sion he also has a healthy addiction to super heroes and this particular month the focus was on Batman.  Just as his Halloween Spiderman transformation took on a dramatic tone, his Birthday Batman transformation was even more spectaclular.  Not only was he super strong, speedy fast, and indestructible, but he would flap his chicken bat wings and fly out of precarious wrestling situation with his brothers enemies.

The After Party

Nathan and Hyrum were still going strong after the food, games, cake and gifts were done.
The "adults"?
Not so much.