Caleb's 6th Birthday

Caleb Friedrich Lanier was born at 7:01am on Sept 10th, 2001. He weighed 7 lbs 6 oz and was 19 1/2" long. I can't believe it's been 6 years since we brought home our little guy!

He started out his day with us singing "Happy Birthday" to him at exactly 7:01am. He then requested pancakes (in the shape of a "C" and a "6") for breakfast.

I took him to school this morning. Alex walked him into his class. I went back to his class later in the morning to bring cupcakes for the whole class. Caleb got a lot of special treatment from his teacher for his birthday. He got to be the "special helper" and he also got to be the first one use the hand sanitizer before we ate cupcakes. At the end of class he got to be the first one to get his backpack and line up at the door. He had a great day at school.
Caleb took this picture of his teacher, Mrs. Miller, eating a cupcake.After school Caleb and Leah went to computer class, then we went to Jon's shop to share the extra cupcakes.

Caleb wanted his most favorite food for dinner--PIZZA! So, we ate our pizza while we waited for Alex's soccer game to start. After the game we went home to open some presents. My mom and dad, grandparents, and the Kruegers all came over to share the cake with us. Here are some of his gifts he recieved.

2 small transformers from Alex and Leah
A checkers set from Alex and Leah (Caleb LOVES to play checkers)
2 small transformers, 1 bigger Bumblebee transformer,

and a transformer outfit from Nanny and Papa

An Elmo bath towel from Grandma and Grandpa Holt
A Spiderman Addition and Subtraction book

and bubble gum from the Kruegers

And his own air compressor set from Mom and Dad!

Caleb was so excited to eat his "Death Star" cake. When he decided that's the kind of cake he wanted he told me, "Mom, it HAS to have the green lasers that shoot out of the death star!" So, I found some skinny green candles that created the green lasers. He was really happy with it. In fact, when I told him to come look at his cake this morning he said to me, "I already saw it. I went and looked at it as soon as I woke up." Silly kid!
When we lit his candles that cake was on FIRE! He had a little trouble blowing out the massive flame protruding out of his cake. Dad had to step in and help him huff and puff and BLOW the fire out. Check out the video...


Overall Caleb had a great 6th birthday. I asked him if he felt 6 years old and he told me "no." I guess he's taller now that he's 6 though 'cause Alex was telling him that he grew and now he's almost as tall as Alex. So funny.

Also, as a side note, my friend Randa had her baby today! Caleb gets to share his birthday with this cute little guy. They had a baby boy this morning. His name is Carson. What a cute baby--look at all that hair!