Ethan had a great 6th birthday. Thanks to all you GOOD relatives out there that actually remember to send cards and gifts. Man, I really feel like a loser now! I even thought I was going to do better this year. Well, there's always next year.
Ethan insisted on having a Spongebob birthday. He watched a marathon of Spongebob episodes while my mom was babysitting them one day. That's all it took. Some gas jokes and underwear references and he was hooked. I think the show's really dumb, personally. Brad can't stand it. It did make for great party decorations and games though. Underwater theme...so easy to work with!
The funniest thing was that I was feeling lazy and tried to convince Ethan to let me shell out wads of money to have his birthday somewhere else...ANYWHERE ELSE...other than our house that is currently 6 months into an addition remodel. I suggested the movie theater, bowling alley, a bbq race car restaurant with a big game room, Chick-Fil-A, McDonald's...no. He begged me for a low-budget, home-spun, backyard birthday reminiscent of the only birthday parties we knew existed in the 70's/80's. Why? Because he wanted me to plan some games. GAMES! I had to invent games to go along with our Spongebob backyard birthday. There was no getting around it, I was actually going to have to work at this party.
And how could I say no...it was his birthday afterall. It's suppossed to be the one day a year I let him get at least some of what he wants. The one day all year I have to be the nice mommy he dreams he was born with.
So, I caved. I baked the cake. I planned the games. I blew up balloons until my jaw ached. I also convinced Ethan to branch out this year and invite all 10 boys in his class so he could get to know them. He resisted and I made him do it anyway. A few showed up and a few old friends too. And it really was fun. And he loved it. Except for a brief struggle during the waterballoon bubble toss, he will have great memories of his 6th birthday party. And just in case he has NO memories of all that I did for him that day, I will carefully be documenting it in his scrapbook...
Ethan insisted on having a Spongebob birthday. He watched a marathon of Spongebob episodes while my mom was babysitting them one day. That's all it took. Some gas jokes and underwear references and he was hooked. I think the show's really dumb, personally. Brad can't stand it. It did make for great party decorations and games though. Underwater theme...so easy to work with!
The funniest thing was that I was feeling lazy and tried to convince Ethan to let me shell out wads of money to have his birthday somewhere else...ANYWHERE ELSE...other than our house that is currently 6 months into an addition remodel. I suggested the movie theater, bowling alley, a bbq race car restaurant with a big game room, Chick-Fil-A, McDonald's...no. He begged me for a low-budget, home-spun, backyard birthday reminiscent of the only birthday parties we knew existed in the 70's/80's. Why? Because he wanted me to plan some games. GAMES! I had to invent games to go along with our Spongebob backyard birthday. There was no getting around it, I was actually going to have to work at this party.
And how could I say no...it was his birthday afterall. It's suppossed to be the one day a year I let him get at least some of what he wants. The one day all year I have to be the nice mommy he dreams he was born with.
So, I caved. I baked the cake. I planned the games. I blew up balloons until my jaw ached. I also convinced Ethan to branch out this year and invite all 10 boys in his class so he could get to know them. He resisted and I made him do it anyway. A few showed up and a few old friends too. And it really was fun. And he loved it. Except for a brief struggle during the waterballoon bubble toss, he will have great memories of his 6th birthday party. And just in case he has NO memories of all that I did for him that day, I will carefully be documenting it in his scrapbook...
