Growing Up

Having a party planner available is a nice thing. After all the parties we have self hosted it was nice having help. Yesterday was the boys’ 7th birthday party and they were upset at me a little bit because it didn’t have a theme, and that is my fault for picking a day when mom wasn’t available.

One way or another I do believe everyone had fun. Our party room was a pair of picnic tables behind a chain link fence out of the way of the jumping area at Sky Zone. In total this small, rectangular area cost us around $600. That included three sodas, three pizzas, and the help of the party host. It also ended up including 100 days of free jumping at Sky Zone for the boys.

It was also interesting seeing what gifts they got from people and how the kid that stole Roland’s Pokémon cards didn’t even bother to bring a gift. The boy had brand new shiny Jordan’s on and was the one that didn’t bring a gift. I have no idea how to deal with kid bullies but I can tell you the kids that don’t here the word no a lot end up being them.

That was kid a side story and I should let that kid grow up and figure life out before being too annoyed by him. We did tell Roland a hundred times not to take his cards to school. The rest of the party was great. Except for Windsor really being mad about no theme.

The real interesting thing is seeing how the kids ended up sitting as a boys table and a girls table. It felt like a bit of an accident but also not. The difference in behavior was also different. Looking at the boys table I was throwing the worst party since the French Revolution, but the girls table was having the time of their lives.

Desert exposed another difference. I brought out the cupcakes and none of the boys wanted one. Not even the birthday boys. I made them blow out their candles and then the girls had fun with cupcakes and popsicles while the boys all slowly meandered out. Then the party became fun again and the boys and the girls ended up climbing on the short wall, all the parents taking picture, and then me getting reprimanded by a Sky Zone employee to get the kids off the wall because they could get hurt unlike jumping at a trampoline park which has a 0% chance of injury.