Birthday Boys

Happy Birthday to my summer babies. We had a combined birthday party for Nathan and Kogan. (Their birthdays are "conveniently" only a week a part). Nathan is now 3, which he loves to show you on his fingers and Kogan is 10! We actually took them to the store and let them pick out a few things for themselves this year. (way easier than sneaking out to buy gifts, hiding them around the house and wrapping them...we took the lazy way this year!) But they LOVED it! Nathan got his "Bumble bee" transformer car and a wide variety of "moving vehicles". (some of them quite loud, of course!) Kogan got a video game and an assortment of Star wars "gear"...I was informed they weren't toys. (a talking helmet and light saber, and a new transformer....toys?) Leo got him a clock/docking station/stereo for his i-pod for his room. Kogan thought that we were buying it for our room and was so excited when we plugged it in and told him to see if his i-pod would fit on it..then we started playing his songs and told him that it was actually his..I'm glad we got to surprise him a little bit. Then we got to the fun part..a.k.a..cake! We got Nathan a cute cake with hot wheel fire trucks, ambulances and helicopters on it..Kogan had a white cake that looked just like a hamburger. The meat, lettuce, tomato and mayo were all colored frosting. It was so cute and yummy! He loved it! We have another surprise for Kogan. Leo is going to take him to the Sprint store this week and let him pick a phone. (nothing nicer than ours though!) He's going over to his friends more, and this way we can call him directly when we need to speak with him. He also informed us that 'all the kids are texting each other'..so, yes, even though he is grown enough to text his friends (at 10?), he still is young enough to play with his toys. (I mean his gear) LOL.. I don't want these boys to grow up too fast!