brandon's 5th birthday

i cannot believe brandon turned the "big 5"! he's been so excited weeks before his birthday. the morning of the party, he got dressed all by himself. i had something i had set aside for him to wear BUT he insisted that he wanted to wear what he had picked out by himself. such a big boy now! he had a great time! we had his party on 10/10 (his actual birthday is 10/11). i had a dilema on which friends of his to invite now that he is in school. if i invite a few friends from his class, i potentially can hurt feelings when word gets around to the kids that weren't invited. so i just invited his friends from preschool and that was enough to make his party special. below is a picture of the boys.

do you recognize this guy? his wife went to school with eddie. they have the cutest family---twin girls that are 7 (or 6?) and another set of twins, a boy & a girl, almost 1 yrs old. incidently, there were a lot of twins at this party---my BIL, half of a twin and one of brandon's friend had little twin brothers there too.

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we had a caricature artist come to draw pictures of all the guests. fun drawings came out. i should have taken pictures of everybody's caricature but was too busy running around that i forgot. i will at least take pics of ours to show at a later blog post. great idea for something to give in place of the usual goodie bag.

thanks to my family who flew in from SF to help celebrate and my cousins for securing the park for us.