Today was Alex’s 5th birthday. We had a little party at home; about half a dozen friends from church and school came to the house just after supper for a couple hours. The kids played and we did cake and ice cream and presents. Alex did pretty well; most notably he got a scooter, a plug-n-play video (Pac-Man, Dig Dug, etc) game for the TV, and a couple more Thomas trains, Beth and I also got him a new bedding set and new border for his room. He got a tractor cake, for some reason that was the one he picked out.