Uncategorized March 28, 2005
Evan had his birthday party today and he was really geared up for it! He knew he was getting presents, and knew his friends were coming, and he knew that there were going to be lots of toys to play with.
We rented a hall in a church, not too far from where we are here. It’s mostly indoors, but we put up a fence which stops the kids from pulling a runner on us. There is a kitchen and a large play area, and one of the best things is that they have a large number of toys that the kids can play with.
We made a birthday banner for Evan (happy 3rd birthday Evan), and blew up lots of balloons for him. We played music and baked a cake for him. We had about 15 kids turn up, which was just right for the size of the room. It rained a bit during the party, but was sunny for most of it.
We baked a cake and put icing on it in the shape of a cement mixer. Evan really wanted it and we modeled it on the cement mixer on Evan’s bedsheets. Matt the Mixer. It was a bit different than the original, but in a good way. Evan was thoroughly into blowing out candles in the last few days, and we practiced a few times at home. He had 3 little candles for the cake. There should be a photo of it on the homepage, whenever I find the time to upload it.
We got all the kids into the kitchen for the food and we had put out mini chairs for the kids to sit at the mini table. It was quite cute really, all the kids sitting there. They were very well behaved and nobody made any spills!
The first attempt to blow out the candles were met with little Aiden blowing the candles out for Evan. Evan wasn’t too fussed and we re-lit the candles and he blew them out. We all sang Happy Birthday to him and he was a bit shy, but did really well.
We had ice-cream and cake, and quite a few kids only ate the icing off the cake. After that, we could play some more with the toys, and now that the kids had lots of sugar in their veins, they were able to go nuts again.
We closed up shop around 2pm and we hadn’t even opened any of the pressies from the kids. Every kids was sent home with a goodie bag that had lots of fun things like a spinning top, some stickers and of course lollies.
When we got home, we unpacked and Evan was very good about not opening up the pressies until we were ready. A remarkable amount of self-control not to tear into the presents.
We got lots of things from the friends, including clothes, Bob toys, a Bob card game, a Shrek 2 clock, a construction site and a police hat. All very cool stuff.
Lauren did awesome the whole time we played and worked. She had 2 regular sleeps and had a bit of trouble falling asleep tonight. Evan was asleep within the minute of putting him down!