It probably gets old when I say I can't believe, but, I can't believe my little boy is 2. He has the biggest smile and the sweetest heart and he really, really loves Santa. I'm not sure how that happened, other than he is the son of a super Christmas loving Dad. I started out the day with our usual pancake people. I thought I was being so clever with blue dye for our little boy to decorate his pancake man. But, he said, "anta, anta" (Santa) as soon as he saw what we were doing. I guess I should have gone for red. Rusty helped him make a pancake Santa.
At lunch time we went to Poipu to have lunch with Russ. The girls thought since Ridge was a bit small to have lunch by himself with Daddy that they might score some lunch and hula pie at Keoki's along with the birthday boy. Instead they got peanut butter sandwiches at the boat harbor. The tide was really low so we looked for sea creatures. We found a couple of sea cucumbers and had hermit crab races. The girls also chased chicks and played with some dogs.
For Ridge's party I had originally planned to have a construction theme. I had inflatable hammers, construction hats and I was going to steal my sisters idea and make a cake in a dump truck. However, I started thinking about what Ridge loves more than anything else. Of course, that is Santa. So I planned a Santa party instead. It was luck that Walmart still had a few Christmas items on clearance. I scored some plates with Santa on them and some bows. Mike, Holly and girls, and Riley the neighbor boy came over for the party. We had lasagna, garlic bread and salad for dinner. For desert we had santa cupcakes and peppermint push pops. I made peppermint ice cream with leftover candy canes, vanilla ice cream and my food processor. The santa cupcakes were decorated with red sugar, coconut, a marshmallow, and various colors of frosting. The girls helped me with those. We played pin the bow on the present for our game. Ridge was really excited about opening gifts this year. He sat on his monkey chair for each one and ripped the paper open as fast as he could. He played with each gift until we reminded him that he had another. He would rush back to his chair and do it again. The girls both bought him gifts with their allowance money. Katelyn bought him some punch balloons. There were enough for all of the kids and they had a great time. Kyleigh got him a toy story ball. We gave him a bin of potato heads and parts. He loved all of his gifts.
Happy Birthday to my cute little boy.
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