Timmy's 5th Birthday Party

Timmy's birthday party this year was a blast!  It was the first party we had outside of our house, which was really nice, and we had a huge surprise lined up, thanks to Uncle Joe.  We talked Timmy into a National's themed birthday party, because we had arranged for Teddy Roosevelt, Timmy's favorite Racing President, to be a surprise guest!  The party was at the NZone where we had a private turf field and a moon bounce and then a private party room.  About half an hour into our time on the field we had Timmy and all of his friends line up for a big race and by the time they got to the far side of the field, Teddy had appeared among them!  We had thought that Timmy would poop his pants when he saw Teddy, but he just said, "Teddy!?! What are you doin' here?" pretty nonchalantly!

A few kids were shocked or otherwise unhappy to see him, but the majority of them came right back to the starting line on their own, they knew Teddy was there to run!

 We gave Teddy a break by taking a bunch of pictures while other guests got back into the moon bounce.

 Next Teddy played baseball with the kids, first as the pitcher and then he took his own turn batting.

 Timmy was smiling from ear to ear the whole time!  He was so excited to see his friends since it was a few weeks into summer and he loved getting to just run!

 
After Teddy took a short break we asked our guests to head to the party room to give Timmy a chance at a private race.

Teddy came to the party room to lead us in singing Happy Birthday to Timmy and then he headed home.  Timmy and his guests devoured the pizza.

The cake went pretty fast too, even though it looked much better then it tasted (too much red coloring!).  We put re-lighting candles on the cake and Timmy thought it was funny.  I love his amused expressions in these pictures.  I love Tyler's face in all of these pictures too, wondering why Timmy can't blow out the candles and then finally trying to help.

We had some time left in the room so Timmy opened his gifts, surrounded by his friends.

We considered the party to be a huge success!  On their way home Tim asked Timmy how he knew Teddy would be there, our smart boy said, "Well, you put his picture on the invitation, so I thought he might come."