The Little Birthday Party
What a big difference two months can make. In June, we had a big birthday party for the Little Princess and Spiderboy. Last Saturday, we had a small party for the Little Monkey. Instead of 30 kids and 20 adults, we had 15 kids and 10 adults. This time around, there were no balloons, face painting, clowns, or strippers.
Even though the party was smaller, everyone still had fun. Actually, I don’t know if the birthday girl had fun or not. The Little Monkey didn’t play with the other kids. She didn’t even want to unwrap her presents. She just hung out with daddy. Maybe that’s all my little girl wanted for her birthday — time with daddy. At least that’s what I’m telling everyone.
On another note: I’m moving my sites to another server this week. If you don’t hear from me for awhile, that means the new server is possessed and has sent me to hell.
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I think you had the better present. She is totally adorable…good to see that cupcakes still managed to get her into the b-day spirit.
Keep smilin!
That was actually her second cupcake. She ate the chocolate first.
What server are you moving to? Is butthead at the root of this?
Could be. The web hosting company keeps suspending me for consuming too many cpu resources. The butthead might be behind it all.
Bigger doesn’t always mean better as far as parties go, huh? Looks like she had fun.
Good luck with the move to a new server. I hope all goes well!
I like it small, but I noticed there are fewer presents too. Doesn’t really matter because the kids already have too many toys.
So nice to see a photo of Spider Boy with his entire face showing! Wow!
Sounds like the party was fine for all, even The Little Monkey. I think she got the best present of all. I’m telling you, get those “dates” scheduled!
My son was too busy “hugging” the birthday girl to notice I was taking his picture.
Too bad my son doesn’t start school this year. That would free up a lot of time for the Little Monkey.
Awwwaawawaaaa! So cute! I think spending a day with daddy sounds like a wonderful present.
Great. I guess I don’t need to buy the kids anything for Christmas.
Ahhh. Birthday cupcakes. They are the best.
I love her little smirk as she is going down the slide. I wonder what she is thinking.
She’s thinking, “should I slide down backwards again?” By backwards I mean sitting backwards (not sliding down on her tummy).
So cute! Still sounds like a lot of kids in the house to me hehe.
Moving servers! Always fun…not!
Lots of fun. I’m still testing/configuring the server with a dummy site. I hope things go smoothly.
My daughter’s first birthday was one of the most profound experiences of my life. She’ll be three in December. I’ll blog it when the day comes. Nice.
Us too. The first birthday of our oldest daughter was the biggest. We invited relatives from both sides of the family. And the inlaws invited all their friends too. I didn’t know most of the people there.
My little girls always go towards their daddy when they are around people. I hope they had a great birthday party!
Good luck with your move!
My oldest daughter use to hang with me at parties, but not anymore. When she’s with her friends, I don’t exist.
The party looks like a big success! I hope the server move goes as well for you. ;) Your kiddos are so cute.
Hugs,
Holly
It’s taking me longer to cut over to the new server than I expected. Hopefully, I can get this done before the three-day weekend.
Hey Special K,
I love your site! Tyler pointed me in your direction. The children are getting so big…and cute.
Go Beavs
Congrats on your son’s award. Awesome. Now that you know about my blog, I guess I can’t write about my weird friends in Seattle anymore.
BTW, did you hear about Phil Knight’s $100 million donation to the Nike Ducks? Boo! Boo!
Just found your site through Doris and Dan’s site, glad to have found you as I’m totally enjoying a good read, plus your kids are freaking (I so hate that word) adorable.
Welcome to my blog. I’ll come by for a visit after I finish moving to the new server.
Hi,
Just came to your site by way of Doris and Dans’ (3D adoption) I love what I’ve read so far and my dh thought it was cool that there are dads out there blogging. He said he might even start a blog of his own when we return with Maddy in just a few months. Thanks for your inspiration.
Great to hear you will get your daughter soon. Before I started reading Doris’ blog, I didn’t realize how long it took to adopt from China.
I think you have kit the nail on the head with the smaller party. If you go big its just a nuclear arms race with all the parents, and the children end up getting overwhelmed anyway.
In my limited experience, we have found that small parties of less that 6-10 kids are ALWAYS better for everyone involved. The children get more out of it, and the parent’s sanity emerges more intact…
It’s all up to my crazy wife. She gets very carried away for the party in June and is still tired by the time the August party comes around.
So cute! Love cupcakes!
Me too, but I didn’t get any.