Cullen's Ninth Birthday!!

I'm a little late on this post since it's now been a full week since Cullen's birthday and even longer since his party, but to state an well used cliche - "better late than never!"

Cullen had his first sleepover party last Friday night. We kept his very small - just three of his best buddies:

We had Cullen's favorite food for dinner - pizza!

The boys had great fun with a silly string war:

The theme of Cullen's party was Mario Bros. from the video game. His cake was supposed to somewhat resemble one of the mushrooms from the game. It turned out okay, but was definitely not one of my better creations. On the up side - it tasted great!

In keeping with the party theme, the boys spent a lot of time playing video games:

In fact, Cullen and one of the other boys were so excited about playing video games all night, that they didn't go to sleep! That's right, when I got up around 6 (because another boy had woken up throwing up with a migraine), Cullen and another boy were still awake! Of course, I knew Cullen would crash sooner or later, and it turned out to be sooner. He fell asleep about an hour before the party was over and slept through everyone leaving to go home.