Eric's Birthday

We Celebrated Eric's birthday on Friday. I had an appointment in SLC which took some time- especially since it was lunch time, so we had to stop for lunch and that took forever. He wanted to finish reading "The Hobbit", so we read lots and did. We searched the internet for a space ship cake and couldn't find one he liked, so he settled for a mountain cake with trains around it. He picked lemon cake and in the future I will remember not to offer that choice. It was moist and had crumbly issues. I made green colored orange flavored frosting. It was a tasty cake. He also finished reading his 25th book this month, so we had pizza. The Book It coupons have been lost, so I let him pick his pizza. He picked a stuffed pizza from Papa Murohy's. Papa Murphy's is economical and tastes great, but it is burdensome to have to cook our own pizzas one at a time, Dinner was very late. He opened his presents: Thomas tub toy, two old Berenstain Bears books, a dice game, and a velvet train art with glitter glue as well as some money from relatives. Then we watched "The Hobbit". Caitlyn complained about the differences between the book and the movie. I hear a new Hobbit should be coming out. I am curious to know if it is appropriate for children to watch. Next day Eric got up early to read "The Bike Lesson". He thinks the book is hilarious. It is pretty neat because being a perfectionist he has maintained that he can't read. In the past few months he has only read beginner phonics books and only to get his pizza reward. He doesn't just read books for his own enjoyment- he'd ask me to read them, but he's read The Bike Lesson 3 times already by himself. He also asked early in the morning when he could take a bath. Then spent an hour in the tub with Thomas an Bulstrode. He's also got his picture half colored. We've played hi game several times too. I think he enjoyed his birthday.