the big 4.0!

I can't believe I'm writing about Peter's birthday again! He needs to stop having them so often! Yeesh! This year he asked for a Spider-man birthday. He's been asking for one for about six months now despite the fact that he has had zero Spider-man toys, clothes, etc. He did acquire some Spider-man underpants from his grandma a while back but seriously outside of that we have no idea why he likes or even knows about Spider-man. But he had been bringing it up pretty consistently so we got some Spider-man animated episodes from the library so I could justify the party theme haha.

Celebrations started the night before with our friends from Wisconsin. Their dad is getting an MBA at Duke and their mom has the same birthday as Peter! So we watched the kids while they went to dinner and Peter got to have a little mini party. We ate cupcakes, took out the bad guys with spider webs (silly string), and watched an episode of "Spectacular Spider-man." They had a great time and Peter loved finally having friends over. I'm still trying to get the show's song out of my head. Bah.

 They also had a great time making frosting mustaches...

This is "Strong" the devious dino. A well known villain in the Hall household.

Taking care of business!

Sunday morning Peter woke up to Spider-man everything! His primary class sang a happy birthday song to him at church and he got a "Bishop Buck" to cash in for a candy bar from the bishop. He chose the biggest snickers in the bag.

After church he got to Skype with his grandparents and eventually we finally got to eat his birthday dinner ("hot nuggets" and french fries) and open presents.

He really scored this year. He got cards from all of his awesome grand and great grandparents as well as some pretty neat toys and games. His favorite was the stuffed Chase, the Spider-man action figure, and the mini Dusty Crophopper. Wal-Mart's toys section totally delivered this year. Thank heavens Peter is extremely easy to please.

After playing with his new swag for a bit we convinced him to be interested in the cake and ice cream. A Spider-man cake, of course. And in case you ever need bright red frosting you can buy it from the bakery peeps at Wal-Mart. Cause like actually trying to make bright red frosting isn't possible. Dark pink? Yes. 

Anyhow. The day was a success. While tucking Peter into bed I asked him if he had a good day and he said, "Of course I did!" Phew! What a relief. Seriously I was nervous he'd be sad about not partying with his Utah friends. But he's an awesome kid and he's four! And we love him. (:

Happy birthday Peter!