Ryan's been saying for a year now that he wanted a Lego birthday when he turned six, which I was thrilled about. Ryan's actual birthday fell on a Wednesday this year (same as the year he was born, which made reliving the events all the more fun) - it was a full day of school, plus his kindergarten performance that night, but we tried to fit in a little celebrating with some birthday pancakes in the morning.
His performance that night was so much fun for all of us that I don't think he minded giving up his birthday evening for it!
The next day, we finally got around to opening presents:
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| He loved playing with his snap circuits set from Uncle Dain! |
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| Reading to Daddy from "Now we are Six" |
Saturday was the big party day. It was a new experience for me, inviting school friends that we don't know that well and having to plan actual activities rather than just letting them run around and play and then feeding them cake :) All in all, it seemed to go pretty well.
The first game was a duplo toss, where they had to try to throw a duplo into the smallest possible ring.
Then we did a relay race where they had to run down to a bucket of legos, get a spoonful and carry it back to their team's bucket at the other end. After everybody had a turn, the team had to try to build the tallest tower with their legos. We were pretty lenient on rules (especially since we had younger siblings and cousins), and I'm not sure there even ended up being a winner, but the kids seemed to have fun.
Then came Ryan's big request, the pinata.
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| Uncle Bret and Courtney watching on the sidelines :) |
And, finally, lunchtime!
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| Ethan, trying to drink the last of the cake crumbs off his plate |
During the down time, we had legos and duplos out for the kids to play with.
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| Kaeden and Caroline were best buds for the morning :) |
And apparently polar bear ears as well!
It was a lot of work, but very rewarding, and we've only had a tiny bit of birthday withdrawal since :)
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