He was so excited for his birthday and couldn't wait to open his gifts. He kept asking when we could do gifts and because I hadn't wrapped them yet, I kept putting him off. Finally, after jobs were done and Eric could take a break from work (Lex was lucky that his birthday fell on a Wednesday) we opened gifts.
The rest of the day got busy for us. Nate had a ballgame and Shaylyn had a cheer camp performance AT THE SAME TIME. So Eric and I divided and conquered. Eric drew the short stick and had the pleasure of taking all kids with him and I took Shaylyn to her thing.
So, of course we had to light up the donuts and sing Happy Birthday!
His party had to wait, however. The weekend of his birthday his little cousin had a birthday party. The next week I wasn't feeling well and into the week we decided to have his party, I still wasn't doing great. I hoped I'd feel better. We got the invites out a little late because of my health, but thankfully - by the Saturday of the party I was feeling more like myself.
Lex opted for a Pokemon themed party. For the invites I recreated a Pokemon card. I got the idea off of Google somewhere.
Because I had been sick I didn't have a whole lot of time to make cupcakes or cookies. So I sort of cheated. I bough premade cupcakes with both Superman and Transformer rings on them. Looking at what I had to work with - I knew almost immediately how to make them work. The Transformer cupcakes were frosted red and yellow. I knew I could make the red ones work as Pokeballs, the yellow ones would be Pikachu's face. The Superman cupcakes were red with a yellow inner ring. So I knew that I could do some fancy work and make those works for Pokeballs as well.
I tried to scrape off half of the red icing so I could put white there, but it was proving more difficult than I anticipated, so I settled for frosting on top of it. Then I put some chocolate flavored Twizzlers for the line and mini Oreo's for the ball's center. Pikachu's face I drew with icing and used flattened Starbursts for his cheeks. While they aren't masterpieces, the kids thought they were great.
Lex also wanted a pool party, which was super simple. I didn't have to plan any games really - just had to buy a few pool things and make sure I sat outside to supervise. I love summer birthdays.
About an hour before the party was to end we had presents and treats.
Then we had an awkward situation develop. Lex had invited our good friends' kid, Isaac. But Isaac didn't show. I just figured they were busy and left it at that. But then we saw the mom over at our neighbors. I asked Eric if his friend had said anything to him about the party and he said, "no." So Eric called our friends to see what the situation was.
Well they had never even seen an invitation. This poor kid had thought the party was the night before and they were busy. Lex had told his friends it would be on Friday and so Isaac was sure it was. When we asked Lex where he put the invitation - he told us under their door mat. D'oh! No wonder no one saw anything.
Anyway, we told our friends that Isaac was welcome to come over for awhile if he wanted to. Isaac showed up and we let him hang out a little longer than the other friends because of the situation.
All in all, it was a great party. Lex only had 2 people not show up and I was surprised that was it given they only had a few days notice. Lex was super happy and they even ended up creating their own games to play. We even let Jace experience grass for the first time.
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