Kid’s birthday parties are pennance
for having fun at the conception end of things….. We did our annual parental pennance this past Sunday, which just happened to be Eli’s actual 8th birthday! Sunday, you say? Aren’t most kids parties on Saturday? Yes, my friends, they are. But Eli had karate in the morning, overlapping Joshua’s wrestling meet which ran until between 2 and 3, and we couldn’t face the idea of then coming home to a house full of boy-kids full of sugar from 3-5. So, it was a party on Sunday!
Here’s Eli, first thing Sunday morning, tearing into the most recent upsurge in Lego stock values thanks to his generous Aunt Joyce and Uncle TJ and his parents. This was supplemented later in the day by his friends. There is no such thing, it appears, as too many legos, particularly of the Bionicle / Exoforce variety (personally, Mom prefers the Harry Potter sets, especially the original Hagrid’s hut…. but I digress).
We scheduled the party to begin at 1:30 to permit his best friends, twins Ben and Kyle (who also happen to be very LOUD) to attend after a church / first communion class. Still….have you ever heard of a kid turning down pizza? Neither have we. And if you feed then, they tear around and shout a bit (but not a lot) less. Then, Paul and Joshua–bless them!–took the six 2nd graders outside for a good game of catch, before cake and presents.
Eli is currently learning about Africa and African animals, so he did the drawing of a giraffe and African trees at Sunset, which I scanned into the computer and turned into the birthday party invitations. He then asked for a cake with African animals–giraffes or elephant–at sunset. Presto…this is the part of kids’ parties that are FUN….getting creative with the cake! I love playing with food coloring!
After the party, all four of us…even the boys….retreated blissfully to separate, quiet rooms until dinner.
Eli is a joy and a wonder. And it’s a lot more fun to celebrate his birthday than go through labor again LOL!