Getting Ready for Cole's Special Day

So even though Cole's 5th Birthday is not until later in April, his class is celebrating his special day today! My mom was very nice and ordered the cupcakes from a special cupcake place and picked up bags for the kids. Now my mom is amazing and she loves to shop at the best places way better then I could ever afford. Yes I'm not ashamed to admit that I would have picked up the bags and goodies at the dollar store ... LOL and probably made cupcakes. But she was very nice and bought all these mind you the cost was a little over $100 for these few items. Yes and you who have been following know that this total was added to the Walking with the Dinosaur show that my parents and Cole are going to for a whopping $220 for all of them. So no swing set but we do have some pretty amazing stuff instead. Still a little sad and trying to figure out how the heck I'm going to pull off a swing set, but 'm sure I'll figure it out ... LOL

Check out the gift bags, plus the early special gift brought home for Cole (and Caden).

Boy Bags, Mom bought special stickers to decorate all bags and ribbon to tie them.

All bags have a bunch of Foam puffy stickers in animals, pack of gold fish and boys got mini cars.

I went to the dollar store and picked up color books

Power Rangers for the boys.

Girl Gift Bags!

Girl Bags had little books instead of cars.

And Strawberry Shortcake Color Books I picked up.

All the gift bags, 7 boys & 6 girls

Now pray that I counted right, since I'm a dork and didn't find my list.

Teacher gets a special cupcake.

Cole's Special Cupcake with a sugar Dinosaur
Plus special stickers to decorate the box.
Check out these cupcakes.

All I can say is I don't remember ever getting these for my birthday!

What is the black blob?
Why it is our new fish Spiderman

(you after the black Spiderman)

Caden was getting up close and personal.