Someone Turned 9!

Zane was the first to celebrate a birthday in Brasil!! He was very exited about his day. We started out with some birthday picture poses!

At school, all students are give a 'crown' made by the assistant in the classroom. Everyone knows that it is your birthday and you are smothered with attention, hugs, kisses and love!

I stayed at school to eat lunch with the birthday boy!

In our family, the birthday person gets to pick whatever they want for dinner on the birthday and I will make it. Then, we typically go out another day and it is the birthday person's choice. This year, Zane chose tacos, but he requested hard taco shells. This is not something we have found here. So, we created our own. 

It was a success!

The birthday person also gets to request the dessert. His request: A cake in the shape of the mosquito trapped in amber from Jurassic Park. Um...OK!!?? Here is what we came up with.

I searched the places that I know for food coloring and came up with nothing. So we utilized gelatin to color the homemade frosting. I couldn't find anything to create black frosting, so we found these little chocolate pieces. I spent about 30 minutes placing them on with tweezers. The things we do for our children!!

The candle Greg picked up was a trick candle and to our delight kept relighting. We were all tickled!

We attempted a Hangout with family. Everyone was able to sing to him and see him open some of the presents. 

 Unfortunately, a nasty bug found its way into our house and his plans of going to the T-Rex park and out to dinner for sushi has still not happened. We hope to be able to do this soon!

Overall, a wonderful celebration!