A Birthday Party

I decided five days before his birthday that Seth would really enjoy a party, something simple with a few friends.  We will be in the process of moving next year, most likely, and not have our friends around.  I am so thankful for all the folks out there who post detailed step-by-step instructions on their own kids' birthday parties.  Lego is easy and popular, and I copied. 

In the days before Craig made an awesome mini-figure head pinata.

I wanted to make bean bags for a game and for the kids to take home.  I learned that you can't buy felt here, so I found the perfect bright yellow kitchen cleaning rags at the grocery store (cheap!).  A dear friend here had a bit of black felt.  She came over one morning and cut out the face pieces while I sewed them on.  My friend is a graphic design major that paints and sews and does all things artistic, so her faces really look like the faces.

Safiya made Lego pizza pockets.

Eight kiddos, ages 4 to 9 came.  First they colored a mini-figure and a head.

Then, we played pin the head on the Lego guy.

Then, we played balloon tennis with paper plates taped to craft sticks.

Then, hot potato with one of the bean bags.

Then a little snack supper.

Then cupcakes

Then the pinata. 

It was fast and fun. 

I forgot to mention that Seth's best birthday present of all wasn't really a present.  He knows all about Star Wars thanks to fabulous marketing, but he hasn't actually seen them.  His dad has been telling him for at least two years that he has to be seven.  So, he assumed that the day he turned seven he would get to see one.  Craig took a half-day off from work, took Seth to get a pizza, and then they went to a friends' house without kiddos and watched the fourth/first-made Star Wars.  He thought it was the coolest!