Lego Birthday Bash

I can't believe he's 6. It truly amazes me that he has now been in our lives for more than 1/2 our marriage!

Big E turned 6 on Valentine's day. Now, we don't do BIG birthdays around here. Big meaning the invite everyone we know from school and church kind of parties. In fact, we don't do "friend" parties until our kids turn 5. However, we do like to get into the party theme. Big E's last party was "Superhero Training Camp" at M.I.S.T. (McElroy Institute of Superhero Training). You can see from the picture that I mean what I say when I say we get into it!

So in January, we asked Big E what he wanted to do for this party figuring it would be Star Wars and we'd have a lot of planning to do (including choosing our own characters for the day). We were thrilled when he said he wanted to do a lego party. No dressing up there unless we were going to dress up as Giant Legos, which we could have done I suppose. Then the dreaded question of which friends he wanted to invite. This also went better than expected. He named 4 friends and felt "that was enough because these were his 'real' friends." [see blog re. Friends]. Wow, this is going to be easy.

So, for the easiest party so far . . .

1) mini loaf cake for each child with 2 half marshmallows on top and iced to look like colored legos

2) 1 large loaf cake with 8 half marshmallows on top for the center lego brick

3) lego racer kits for each child bought on sale for less than $2.50 each

4) lego fruit sancks

5) hot dogs and baked cheetos (Big-E's favorite)

6) 5 (including Big E and Special K) very happy lego building kids.

No tantrums. Only one black/blue cheek b/c Special K tripped and fell face first into the coffee table. One friend asked for his present back b/c Big E already had one . . . "why does he need two?" A lot of blue, red and yellow lips! and one very happy Big E!