Adam is 5

We recently celebrated Adam's 5th birthday, this meant a lot of fun baking adventures for me and a lot of sugar and presents for him. He began his day by dining on the sugar cereal he had specially selected for his birthday, Tootie Frooties by Malt-O-Meal. This is the only time of the year that I will buy it for him, so of course he went for the most colorful and frosting-coated kind he could find. Interestingly, he hasn't shown much interest in it since his birthday breakfast, but Seth is steadily making his way through the bag.

After breakfast it was off to preschool with a batch of sunshine cupcakes to celebrate with at snack time. Although they were hastily assembled that morning, a lot of thought and planning went into these cupcakes. We have been hoarding the candy corn since Halloween, that took a lot of willpower on my part.
That evening Adam chose for his special birthday meal: Hot dogs with pork and beans and for the grand finale, a rocket cake, shooting off of a planet, with him in it.
As I am writing this I realize that a lot of the special rituals that surround his birthday are about food, I'm not sure what that means....maybe next year he will pick a salad for his dinner...

But here he is, five years of inquisitiveness, excitement and adventure: ADAM