Birthday Morning

We celebrated Elliot's birthday this morning with chocolate chip pancakes (a birthday tradition in our household) and then he opened up the packages that we recieved from Grandma and Papa, Sally, Dan, Natalie, Nicholas and Alex and Omi and Cotton. Lots of surprises and fun, including rocket ballons (very fun, very noisy), Harry Potter and Shrek music cards, a homemade card by Natalie and Nicholas, a Formula 1 (?) race car, spiderman pajamas, snoopy comics, a cool parrot light (that Elliot has named "Buckbeak"), world map and flags, snacks from the USA and lots of fun stickers! We saw the mountains from the boy's bedroom window this morning (which are not always visible) and Elliot said that the Alps had come out wish him happy birthday. Still to come today, a party at the indoor trampoline play park, but in the meantime here are some pics from the morning...