David turns eight this week so naturally he wanted to celebrate with a Lego party. We threw the standard Reintjes Family party involving a theme in which we could use mostly our old decorations, a homemade pinata, beer for the grown-ups, and pretty much no scheduled activities.
We brought down most of the boys Legos for everyone to play with and they were almost completely ignored. Mostly the kids all ran rampant through the yard and house playing with various weaponry, Pokemon cards and eventually the opened birthday presents. I think everyone had fun.
This year was fun because David was able to do a lot of help with the planning and execution of the party. He put together the invitations, made Lego crayons for party favors with me and even took charge of the table decorations--which consisted of his Lego train and track and a big number eight. He had very specific requirements for his cake, i.e. the same strawberry cake he always wants, which was tricky to bring into the Lego theme of it all, but we settled on a bunch of minifigures holding birthday candles. It was pretty professional.
The whole party was pretty professional. Or the opposite of professional, it's hard to say.
Either way, David had a really good day and that's the important thing, right?