Tucker's birthday party- Epiphany

Our little man Tuck Tuck turns five this week!  It's been SUCH a JOY to raise my precious wittle man.  I cannot believe he is going to keep growing and not stay little like I like him.  :)  At Tucker's suggestion we had a "We Three Kings" party for his birthday since his birthday is the Feast of Epiphany this year.  He helped me make the cake (it was supposed to look a bit like a crown for a king) and we made star cookies.  We bought sugar pecan crescent cookies for "moons" to go with our stars.

This was strawberry cake with cream cheese frosting.  :)

We found the "star" lights in the Happy New Year section.  :)

He really wanted to put his "Five" candle on by himself-

Where the grown ups ate dinner.  :)  The ten children ate in the kitchen.

 We dressed Tucker and his two buddies at the 3 wise men and let them come see Herod (Marky) and then go to baby Jesus.  Another friend carried the "Star of Bethlehem" for them to follow.  It was adorable.   I give you- Caspar, Melchoir and Balthazar.

Then we went to the foyer and did that traditional "epiphany" house blessing with blessed chalk.

Daddy led the ceremony and wrote above the door-

 Bless, + O Lord God almighty, this home, that in it there may be health, purity, the strength of victory, humility, goodness and mercy, the fulfillment of Thy law, the thanksgiving to God the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Spirit. And may this blessing remain upon this home and upon all who dwell herein. Through Christ our Lord.

You write 20 + C + M + B + 14, the initials of the three wise men inside the year.  It should remind you that like the wise men we should be willing to leave all for Jesus.  Also- CMB stands for the Latin phrase "Christus mansionem benedicat", which means "Christ bless this house."

Then we went into the music room and sang "We Three Kings", "Silent Night" and "Joy to the World" by the piano.

Then it was time to sing Happy Birthday and cut the cake!

Here he is opening his presents.  We are going to BB's tomorrow and he will get more presents from our family party, but I wanted to give him his two "astronomy" gifts tonight since they go with the "wise men" theme.  He thinks all he got from us for his birthday is a space book and flash cards and he is happy as a clam.  He says "my wish came true!"  :)  Right before I turned the camera on I handed him the gifts and he said, "wow- these symbols look like hieroglyphics."  I didn't even know he knew that word.  My little mad scientist- how we love you!