Birthdays at school

In our house, birthdays are always a little hard to celebrate at school because the boys' birthdays usually fall during the first week of school in August.

Today, I took birthday treats to Brett and Casey's schools so they could celebrate (even though it was a little late).

In Brett's class, his teacher has a cute ritual where the birthday child gets pretend birthday spankings (the class claps once for each year the child is celebrating).

First you get to choose between a ruler and a yardstick. (Brett chose the yardstick).

I want the big stick!

Then he leaned over his teacher's lap while the class clapped eight times. Trust me, the stick never touched Brett.

Let's count. One, two, three...

In Casey's class, after the class sang "Happy Birthday," the kids enjoyed SpongeBob cupcakes.

Casey, the birthday boy


Casey with Carson and Olivia, his classmates