Jack turned 9 as I mentioned in yesterdays post. He had his own plans for how we were to celebrate his big day. First off, this was not going to be a single day celebration. No way, we were having a family party and a friend party and that was that. In my mind family party translated as we were going to go out to dinner or something, just the 4 of us, and we were going to quietly celebrate Jack turning 9 and then on Saturday we would be hosting a party for friends, cousins, the rest of the fam that could make it.
At 4 on Friday Jack called me to find out why I wasn't home, it had been a half our since school let out and I guess he was ready to party. I talked about my version of what I thought our family party was going to be but he wasn't having any. I asked the folks, Amy and Dan, Jay and Sara and fam to all come over for a little something. Then I hit the Wally Mart for a cake and other necessary items for a birthday party. We pulled off a quick one and the fam came through. I did manage to forget 9 balloons though Jack somehow forgot about those. We could make up for it at the friend party.
Today was said friend party. We had put together some plans relative to this party and it was all based on airplanes. Jack got his slow stick yesterday and so we went with the airplane theme. Invitations were tickets, we played pin the propeller on the airplane, we built rubberband airplane kits for everyone and we had fun flying them in the back yard for a while. I only had to make two trips on the roof and only had to pull three of them out of a tree. Not too bad. The biggest challenge was to keep the planes from complete destruction. They are not very strong. I managed to salvage a few after the party and put them together with new parts or mixed matched parts. They were fun.
I saw some good flights with those though Natty had the best. She threw one that went way up, looped over the big pine tree in Jay's backyard then swerved back up by the house, flew across the yard, over the wall and landed beautifully on the patio of the the neighbor to the back. Way to go Natty!
It was great to have the fam in town. They are all here for baby Griffins baby blessing on Sunday but were able to stop in for Jack. He had a few challenging moments but he handled himself very well and it was a fine day.
At 4 on Friday Jack called me to find out why I wasn't home, it had been a half our since school let out and I guess he was ready to party. I talked about my version of what I thought our family party was going to be but he wasn't having any. I asked the folks, Amy and Dan, Jay and Sara and fam to all come over for a little something. Then I hit the Wally Mart for a cake and other necessary items for a birthday party. We pulled off a quick one and the fam came through. I did manage to forget 9 balloons though Jack somehow forgot about those. We could make up for it at the friend party.
Today was said friend party. We had put together some plans relative to this party and it was all based on airplanes. Jack got his slow stick yesterday and so we went with the airplane theme. Invitations were tickets, we played pin the propeller on the airplane, we built rubberband airplane kits for everyone and we had fun flying them in the back yard for a while. I only had to make two trips on the roof and only had to pull three of them out of a tree. Not too bad. The biggest challenge was to keep the planes from complete destruction. They are not very strong. I managed to salvage a few after the party and put them together with new parts or mixed matched parts. They were fun.
I saw some good flights with those though Natty had the best. She threw one that went way up, looped over the big pine tree in Jay's backyard then swerved back up by the house, flew across the yard, over the wall and landed beautifully on the patio of the the neighbor to the back. Way to go Natty!
It was great to have the fam in town. They are all here for baby Griffins baby blessing on Sunday but were able to stop in for Jack. He had a few challenging moments but he handled himself very well and it was a fine day.
We had to do some shopping first thing. Jack decided he needed to ride.
Pin the prop on the plane. Wen't quite well.
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