Birthday lurve goes out to the littlest Beckham this weekend as Cruz David turned a whopping 5 years old yesterday and celebrated with family and friends at XMA Extreme Sports Studio in North Hollywood, CA. As you can see from the photos below, Cruz got all dolled up in costume as Transformers Autobots leader Optimus Prime for the occasion:

Cruz Beckham must have one hell of a dressing up box. The youngest Beckham boy jumps at every opportunity to step out in a fancy dress costume, and his fifth birthday was certainly going to be no exception. Dressed from head-to-toe as a Transformer, the youngest Beckham boy managed to upstage his mother Victoria yet again as he larked about for the cameras. Cruz played up for the paparazzi as he and his older brother, seven-year-old Romeo, who was wearing one of dad David’s Sport Relief t-shirts, arrived at the Xtreme Martial Arts World Headquarters in Hollywood with Victoria for his birthday celebration yesterday. In his Optimus Prime outfit, he was all smiles as he leapt out of their people carrier with his arms outstretched before poking an amused looking Romeo’s face with his finger. Victoria, dressed in skinny blue jeans and towering black heels, grabbed Cruz’s hand and led him into the venue. It’s clearly one of Cruz’s favourite places as he also celebrated his fourth birthday last year, again in fancy dress, this time dressed as Wolverine from the X Men. And his smile never left his face and was beaming with happiness as he left a few hours later, still clutching mum’s hand, and laden down with party bags. Later, Victoria took the boys, who were joined by older brother Brooklyn, 10 and Gordon Ramsay and his family for dinner at the Pirate’s Dinner Adventure. Although it was only natural that he was the centre of attention on his birthday, Cruz wasted no time in ditching his robot costume and getting the pirate gear on.

Yes, Cruz Beckham really does love his costume birthday parties. If you recall, he dressed up as both Iron Man and Wolverine for his birthday celebration last year … this year, he opted for Optimus Prime and a Pirate. It’s really nice that his parents let him express this side of himself … I bet he had a blast. Earlier this week, I erroneously reported that mama Victoria Beckham was headed back to the UK from NYC but, as you can see, that was wrong. Vicki B. was headed, instead, for home so she could be with her son on his birthday … sorry ’bout that. In any event, Birthday Lurve goes out to little Cruz today …. here’s hoping he had a great little bday!!

[Photo credit: Splash News; Source]