McClellan Family: March 2010

My beautiful daughter Madison had a birthday this week. On her birthday we woke up and I made her eggs and Pillsbury cinnamon rolls. At school I surprised her with a balloon, Burger King, and cupcakes for her class. She did not tell me what she wanted for her birthday, so we went to Toys'R'us and she picked out a Ben Ten car and a Hello Kitty game for her DS. Then we went to Chuck-E-Cheese. It was a day filled with fun for Madi. Then on Saturday we had her birthday party with friends. She wanted a Ben Ten theme. (If you do not know who Ben Ten is, don't feel bad. It is a show on Cartoon Network about a boy who can turn into ten different aliens. These aliens help him to rid bad aliens from our planet. Oh and he turns into these aliens because of a watch called the omnitrix). The party was a lot of fun. Instead of buying a themed cake, I decided to make one. This is my attempt to make the omnitrix.
Does it look like a watch?
Each of the kids got an alien mask to wear. Here is Madi explaining the rules to the first game.
Here are the kids in the line to play shoot the aliens.
We had a launcher that the kids shot the paper aliens with.
Of course the cute little kids were content to sit and watch
Then we all headed into the kitchen to eat pizza.
Thanks to Megan M. for picking up the pizza for me. You are a life saver.
Little Cesears pizza and bread sticks, Yum!
The second game we played was pin the tail on the donkey. I really wanted to play pin the omnitrix on Ben Ten, but I could not find a Ben Ten poster anywhere. I am not kidding I went to 5 different stores looking for one. Oh well, the good old fashion donkey works great too!
The kids could not wait to open the presents...
They all had a good time helping Madison...
I think all of the presents were opened in less then 3 minutes.
She loved everything she got!
After the whirl wind of presents, we put icing on sugar cookies to look like omnitrixes (do you see a recurring theme here?!)
They used green and black icing.
My beautiful Madi!
My beautiful Payton!
Madi concentrating very hard.
Landon content to just eat the cookie and play with the balloons.
I helped with the black frosting. I guess the clean freak in me did not want black icing all over my table! :0)
Megan with her cookie!
Then we hit a pinata. We picked a shark because, well, I'm not sure what goes through Madi's head. I guess because there were no Ben Ten pinatas and sharks are the next best thing?!
Madi hit first.

Then we went from littlest to biggest.
Everyone got one turn, then Madi broke it. It was perfect.All the kids ran to grab the candy.
Then we sang and ate birthday cake.
Happy Birthday Madison!
We were going to play nusical chairs with the theme song to Ben Ten, but I completely forgot. The party was so much fun and exhausting. I am so grateful for all my friends who helped me out since Greg was not here to help. Megan D. who showed up early to help me finish last minute things. Tara who brought her camera (mine is broken) and took all the pictures for me. Kim who helped me clean up, and Megan M. for getting the pizza. I could not have done it without everyone. I am blessed to have such great, wonderful, awesome friends.

To end this super long post, I wanted to tell each of you how much I love my daughter Madison. She is a great person. She is very intelligent. She remembers everything that she hears. It is scary how much she remembers. She is progressing like a great 6 year old. She is very helpful. Her new favorite thing to do for me is clean the dishes. She is such a loving sister. She is very talkative and will ask you a hundred questions, because she has to know about everything. I am the luckiest mom in the world. I have the most wonderful kids. I can't wait to see how they grow up. Well, I better stop the post. It's bed time for my girls. Good night!