A LEGO birthday

{Find my printable templates for making your own LEGO Mini-Me's here.}

So the Professor is officially a "tweenager". I knew it was coming. When his shoes came in bigger boxes than his dad's and he started getting closer and closer to looking me in the eye. Sigh.

OK, back to the party... we all woke up a little late thanks to a late night taking care of a puppy with tummy trouble. The kids found their personalized mini-fig heads on the table and got busy working on the rest.

Some of his gifts were wrapped to look like LEGOS. I just used these little pillboxes and taped them on top.

Here is the birthday guy standing tall and standing small!

On the walls, we taped construction paper pieces together to make the number 12. It wasn't that hard to figure out since I made a smaller version for the cake first.

The kids insisted Mommy and Daddy had to hold hands in the corner. Can't say why! ; )

Just so you know,  I did not try to make Sunshine's mini-fig face look angry. I tried to make it look like this:

All of my kids are fascinated with my ability to arch my eyebrows, one at a time. Sunshine has been working on it especially hard lately which means just about every time I turn around, I see this face and crack up! She is my Sunshine, my only Sunshine!

When it came to the cake I figured he would want something like this or this. I was surprised when he said, "How about you just put some LEGOS on a cake?" OK. That's easy. Then Colleen turned me onto these Candy Blocks which can really click together! They worked great for decoration, but unfortunately didn't come in enough shapes to make the 12.

So here is what we came up with. The Professor picked out a Lethal Peppermint Chocolate Cake (it's amazingly pepperminty with a crushed peppermint buttercream filling and a peppermint ganache frosting...so good!!!) and I created a scene on top. Super easy! Thanks kid!

But of course, no LEGO birthday would be complete without a trip to the new LEGO store.

Beaming, he was. Just beaming!

Check out Dylan's awesome LEGO self  and please, let us see yours if you make some. We were thrilled to see his! Thanks Melissa and Dylan! Here are some examples if you need ideas for faces.