Chuck E. Cheese

This past Saturday, our little family had a big event....the first birthday party with little people at Chuck E. Cheese! Drew invited his best friend from daycare (Casey) and my friends' kids as well. I of course chose Chuck E. Cheese since I would have no prep work, no clean up and I always find it entertaining to see which lane Drew will try to throw the "skee-balls" up (not always his own.) In fact, sometimes we have to work on keeping him from throwing it overhand (again, not quite what CEC ownership had in mind...)

Drew did so much running around that he was (literally) sweating at one point.

(I guess that's the sign of a good party for him.)

As for his cake, I was originally planning on ordering him a "Thomas the Train" cake. When we went to the bakery and I asked him what he wanted on his cake, he said "candles." Turns out that when you're 3, you don't realize that you automatically get candles AND a design on your cake. Once we got past that, he finally decided he wanted "whales" on his cake. So as you can see, he got an ocean themed cake.

And while all the other kids ate their cheese pizza, Addi gave pizza crust a shot. Not only did she gnaw on it for a good half hour, she really seemed to enjoy it. (Pretty impressive for a girl with no teeth!!)

Thank you to those that earned their tickets and "donated" to Drew. We now have 600+ tickets to spend. I can only imagine the number of trinkets this will buy us. :)