This week we celebrated a birthday.  Not anyone's birthday in our immediate family, but Uncle Mikey turned 28 on May 10.  He lives in Noth Carolina and since we are in Indiana, we celebrated without him.  It was really fun!  When we got up in the morning, we baked a giant sugar cookie.  After it cooled we smothered it with icing and sprinkles.  Then we called Uncle Mikey and sang "Happy Birthday" to him--Mackenzie even learned how to play the song on her violin during her lessons.  But the party didn't stop there--after we decorated the giant cookie, we dug in--yes, that was our lunch for the day!  When we were stuffed with cookie, we went shopping at Toys R Us--each child got to choose a toy as a present for Uncle Mikey.  The twist was that they got to keep the toy themselves!  It really was so much fun and the kids enjoyed celebrating his birthday without him.  Of course, what kid do  you know who can resist a chance to celebrate?  We also did the same thing for Aunt Nikki's birthday back in November--she lives in China so we did a long distance birthday party.