Birthday Party
On Saturday, Spiderboy turned six, the Little Princess turned nine, my wife turned twenty-something again, and I conquered Europe. We celebrated by going to the mall and then throwing a birthday party with a zillion well-behaved kids. Speaking of parties, can you guess from the photos below who invited everyone in their class to the birthday party and who didn’t invite anyone?
My son’s birthday presents
My daughter’s birthday presents
I’m not sure what’s going on with my kids. Last October, the Little Princess invited everyone in her class to our Halloween party and Spiderboy didn’t invite anyone. Less than eight months later, my son invited everyone to the birthday party and my daughter didn’t invite anyone. Is nine the age when kids no longer want birthday parties?
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Girls start getting ‘choosy’ around that age mate!
Boys never do.
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Girls do start wanting their parties with only close friends around age 9, but they also start wanting more involved, expensive presents.
But boys just want presents. They don’t care what or from who. Till they turn 13 or so, then they want the really expensive electronic toys.
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She didn’t want to invite anyone. Not even her best friend, which I think is a kinda strange.
Holy cow! Look at all the presents he got! LOL. That’s so funny how you had to celebrate birthdays all the same day. My kids all are exactly two weeks apart. So my daughter starts the birthdays, 2 weeks later, the next one, 2 weeks the next one, etc, all the way to the end. This next one is due 2 weeks after the last birthday and then my husband’s birthday comes after that. So we call it the “payday birthdays”. Every 2 week paycheck is another birthday. So weird!
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That’s a lot work to have a party every two weeks. It’s a good thing our other kids were born in August and March.
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Spiderboy is popular. Hehe. Next year, my son will be going to school and his bday is in July which will mean, bday parties and all classmates invited.
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Our Little Monkey’s birthday is in late August, which is a bad time for a party. It’s about a week before school starts again and most leave leave town the weekend of her party.
I think my kids stopped having big parties around that age. At first I thought it was because they got sick of writing a ton of thank you cards for all of their gifts, but I now know it’s because they get choosier. Yes, both my daughter and my son have foregone having birthday parties now. It’s a blessing in many ways, not to mention to my bank account. As someone else mentioned, now instead of getting lots of inexpensive gifts, they get just one pricier one. My daughter got a new cell phone this year; my son got a Flip video camera.
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The money part I’ve noticed. The party costs more than all the gifts added together. If it wasn’t so expensive, I rather take them to Disneyland every year.
How can another year have snuck by?! Glad to hear it was a successful day. :)
Hugs,
Holly
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Time does fly. The Little Princess is half way to adulthood.
WOW…..he cleaned up…months of entertianment there !
Was that your daughter who invited the “not so popular” girl last year ?
Maybe she was playing it safe this year LOL…
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I was wondering that myself. Maybe she thought we would make her invite the unpopular girl again. My guess is that the Little Princess is getting more shy.
Look like Toys R Us was sold out.
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Your girk didn’t invite anyone cos she wants to spend time with her family only! Proves that she’s growing up!