Soren's 1st Ever, Super-duper, Spider-Man Birthday party

I was feeling quite bad about never throwing a birthday party for Soren. As his 9th birthday approached I decided there would be no more excuses. So we bit the bullet and gave out invitations and made plans. I remembered that we had gotten a Spider-Man birthday in a box from somewhere, so this seemed like a great time to make use of it. It had invitations, banner, streamers, plates, napkins, cups, goodie bags, decorations, and goodies for the bags. The only thing I had to purchase was the treats and make cupcakes.  I had more fun than I thought I would have trying to color coordinate things and set it up all fancy like. I'm sure all the 8 and 9 year olds at the party really appreciated my efforts. Haha!!

Only one of the invitees couldn't be there so we had a pretty full house of rowdy boys. We played a superhero race game where there were two teams and each team sent a person who had to put on the oversized clothing and proceed to stuff it with balloons to simulate superhero muscles, then they had to unstuff and run tag the next guy on their team til everyone had a turn. It was pretty humorous! Then they played pin/beat-the-villain game. Next was a quieter activity of a Lego building contest. I needed that respite. 

We then ate cake, donuts,  popcorn, licorice, cherry sours and drank blue Koolaid. After their sugar refill, Soren opened his gifts and they all played until it was time for them to be picked up. Whew!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

It was a fast and furious 2 hours and I was exhausted when it was over. But Soren was happy and had a great time with his friends, so I'm glad I made the effort to celebrate his birthday with a party for him this year.

The goodie table

he voted for cupcakes and donuts this year

the party table

funny game! some of the kids were absolutely swamped in Curtis's clothes...

build those muscles!

lots of laughing in this game

pin the superhero….

way to help a friend out!

Lego building competition

sure kept them quiet for a few minutes

let the eating commence

then came the gift opening and Heavy, Heavy, Hang Over

It was a good 1st birthday party

A traumatic loss...

January started out with a bang for Charles. He has had a wiggly tooth for a while now and was excited at the thought of getting some moula when it finally came out.
A few days ago he was downstairs playing Legos and I head him crying. Turns out he had been using his teeth (big no-no) to separate some Legos and it was just too much for the tooth. It shot out of his mouth and disappeared. I'm still not exactly sure what he was crying about. Maybe he thought he was in trouble for using his teeth on Legos. Maybe it was the blood. Maybe it was the thought of not getting any money since the tooth could not be found.
After some reassurance that he was NOT in trouble, and that he was NOT going to bleed to death, he happily went on his way.
The tooth turned up as well, thanks to the detective skills of Sadie. All was well in Charlie's world!

Kind of sad to see those cute little teeth go….

His last single digit birthday!

Today was Soren's last single digit birthday. How did that happen? Argh, I'm getting old.
We had a low-key birth day for him since he is having his first ever birthday party on the weekend.
We gave him some gifts:

• slippers from family
• $$ from grandparents!

We didn't even have cake on his actual birthday because he wanted it for his party. Works for me!

Soren, you have grown from an adorable baby with bright icy blue eyes and tons of blonde hair, to an awesome young man. We love watching you learn and grow and develop new skills. We anticipate many fun times ahead with you and are thankful to be your parents! Love you, bud!

Oh, the suspense…..

getting closer….