the boys loved having another brother (and another birthday) in the family. these pictures are of the boys doing magic tricks. cameron taught matthew a trick. these pictures are of matthew attempting to trick jacob with his clever new trick.
i made confetti cupcakes for the "birhday cake", because that is what cameron requested. i am not quite sure what inspired us to make cupcakes, considering we were going to the larsen residency--which means the crazy boys would be eating them as well. instead of deciding on a different dessert option, we decided to use the cupcakes as entertainment. the following pictures are for your viewing pleasure:
even mom got in on the crazy action!
on camerons real birthday, which is january 10th, we had a lot of fun. we did not do homework or clean--we did fun things all day. we opened presents throughout the day and went night skiing.
because we went skiing on his real birthday, we celebrated with a birthday dinner and a few presents the night before. we had so much fun. cameron picked t-bone steak and baked potatoes. he wanted that oreo/jell-o dessert that comes in the box. it is so wierd that he always requests the easiest things to make. i would probably request some intricate, delicious dessert, but apparently he likes the easy things better. which is beyond fine with me! you can see how excited he was about the dessert by the picture that is located by the picture of the "cake". he thought he was getting a different dessert because I made him think it was in the oven--clever me. cameron had a little too much fun on his birthday (as you can tell from the pictures of him wearing my cowboy hat)!
so, apparently i thought i was smarter than i really am. i take a great pride in giving good, quality, well-thought out gifts to people. i guess i went too far this time. to provide a little bit of a background, cameron loves salt. let me re-emphasize this fact by stating that he puts salt on his food (on average) 6.34 times each meal. what has already been salted gets salted again. salt-aholic is a rather mild term for his obsession. we have nice, polish pottery salt and pepper shakers. but the problem with them is that the salt does not come out very easilly (which is a good thing because it actually limits his salt intake just a little bit). however, at target after christmas they had a very modern set of s&p shakers for 75% off. i thought this was a great idea for a birthday present for cameron. i would tell him that he could put the salt in the bigger shaker with more holes. genious, right? i was so excited when he opened the present-i mean, who would not love s&p shakers for their birthday? i stood by him with my camera and anticipated the excitement. but when he opened it, there was no excitement at all. i think the word to describe the emotion was utter confusion. he opened the present, looked at the package, thought about it, and then began furiously shaking the package. then i was confused. apparently he did not have any idea what the gift was. a sticker that said SHAKE was on the front of the package, along with a description of the items contained in the package. so, after reading the words on the packaging (except for the words which said that the gift was salt and pepper) he began shaking the package thinking it was some sort of crazy toy. i had to tell him what the gift actually was. talk about hilarious! the fourth picture in this section is of him actually discovering what the gift was. i think next year, i will stick with the usual man gifts.
january is the official birthday month in the knapp family. i am surprised i was even considered as an addition to the famiy since my birthday is in august. the day after camerons birthday is shawnees birhtday. burkes birthday is only a couple weeks after that. danielle, our soon to be cousin, also has the same birthday as shawnee. these pictures are of the birthday bash we had for shawnee, danielle, and cameron. we gave shawnee some perfume, and cameron got a tool set (i don't really know about what type of tool set it actually is because i am actually a woman, but i guess it is really cool). he also got movies, a camping flashlight, and a north carolina sweatshirt!
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That is pretty funny -- I can totally picture him reading "shake" and then vigorously shaking the package. ha. I bet he'll love using them though! If you've never heard Grandpa's story about drilling a hole in the salt shaker, you need to....ask Grandma and Grandpa next time you see them. It's a classic family story.
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