birthday party number 2

Here's my nearly-7-yr-old looking forward to his 2nd Birthday Party of the weekend. The first one was celebrated with his friends Friday at the Pell Farm in Somers, CT. Yesterday was the family party, although less family than usual showed up making it the smaller of the two parties(ordinarily it would be the other way around). However, both parties were a bunch of fun. Pell Farm was less work, though, as the family party was held at our house, so I had to actually clean. I'm becoming a fan of the off-site birthday party....

J blows out his candles while Zoo Boy looks on. It was a "Star Wars" theme, so the cake had Darth Vadar on it, and the kids each got light sabres as party favors (and they had a lot of fun with some game they made up that used them).





Zoo Boy reads the card that he made for J. According to Zoo Boy it read: "Dear J, I love you. We made [he means wrapped] your birthday present. Love, Zoo Boy." Very sweet! And he picked out the present himself, which just so happens to be J's favorite gift of the day:

A Star Wars Transformer toy that transforms from an X-Wing Fighter to Luke Skywalker. Obviously kids know what other kids will like best -- his favorite gift from yesterday was one that one of his friends had picked out. I'm going to let Zoo Boy do the birthday shopping from now on.



This morning J discovered how much fun another one of his gifts is -- this is a set of Rally Dominos that my parents gave him. Big hit! They also gave him "My Book About Me", a Dr Seuss favorite in our house where the kid fills in a bunch of facts and questions about him/herself. Mom gives one to each of the grandkids on their 7th birthday, and J filled his out in it's entirety tonight. His answers were pretty funny! (And revealing -- he said he wants to be a Fireman when he grows up, which is a bit of a surprise as the last I knew he wanted to be a Football player. Zoo Boy says he wants to be either a Lifeguard or a Veterinarian -- big surprise, NOT!) He also got a few other well-loved gifts -- it was a really good gift-getting birthday for him, all of his favorites. We're still holding his "big" gift from us (but I can't tell you what, as he's got a really annoying habit of reading over my shoulder while I type....) until his actual birthday on Tuesday.

But the birthday party was only half of our day....another post forthcoming on our evening activities!