Caien's Birthday Dinner...um...Breakfast

Dave and I decided to take Caiden to Ihop for dinner for his birthday. He loves their pankcakes, and we thought it would be a fun treat.

We arrived and Ihop was all decked out for the movie "Horton Hears a Who" which we were going to take Caiden to the next day. Caiden ordered from the Horton menu in that he had the Dr. Seuss special of green eggs (spinach mixed in with scrambled eggs) and ham and Horton hears a who pancakes with strawberry and bosenberry topping equipped with a flower (lollipop) in which Horton hears the Who from the speck on the clover.

Interestingly enough, the place was packed with people, but of a somewhat older crowd. After the waitresses came out singing for Caiden, the other patrons asked Dave and I to come over with Kiya and Caiden. They said their "oohhs"and "awws" over Kiya and then unexpectedly each table started handing Caiden birthday money. It was soo nice of them, but I felt a bit uncomfortable like the restaurant was looking at us making the rounds like the collection plate at church or something. Dave said that it was ok since THEY called us over there, and it wasn't like we were asking for money. Still it was VERY nice of them. Caiden was really grateful too.

After dinner we went home and Caiden sang a rendition of the birthday song that Dave had been singing with him for most of the day. I got a little video of it, but it was during our bedtime routine in which Caiden picks a book and we read him a story. He saw that Dave was picking out a book in the middle of his song, so he stopped and scolded Dave. Funny. :)



In case you can't understand what he is singing it goes like this:

Happy birthday, happy birthday
How old are you? How old are you?
Count the candles on the cake
make a wish for goodness sake
We want Cake! We want cake!