Dane's Birthday Party

This morning, I tried wearing Collin out so that he would take a nap with Daddy when Daddy got home.  I knew that Collin needed some energy to attend Dane' birthday party around the time Collin gets tired at sometimes naps (3:30pm).  It worked because Collin did take over an hour nap before it was time to go.

Collin has known Dane since Collin was born.  His parents are customers of the bike shop and have become good friends especially now that we both have kids.  Dane's party was at his house outside like it has been the last 3 years.  The kids all played with toys outside before it was time to have dinner.  Collin rode the "motorcycles" (pedal dirt bikes), pushed big trucks around, dug in the dirt with Dane, played mini-golf with Finn (Dane's brother) and Dane and jumped on a mini-trampoline.  He did stop long enough to each several bites of lasagna before he wanted to play some more.  He wore his monkey shirt from the zoo (it has a monkey chest on the front and an tail on the back).  I guess he really likes the shirt because he told every parent that walked by where he got his monkey shirt.  He was also telling them that he is three and his birthday party will be at Monkey Joe's.  Ok, that's news to me.  First, his birthday is in August.  Second, we have not talked about his party AT ALL.  Where is he coming up with this?  He only recently liked Monkey Joe's  (an indoor bounce and jump place) because he was scared of the character Monkey Joe.  It's a good idea to have his party there because it's indoors in A/C during August.  I will have to remember that.  Thanks for the suggestion Collin!

After dinner, the kids each took a turn to hit the pinata that was full of candy.  Since kids of all ages were there, they had to line up by height.  Collin was the third one to hit the pinata and the only one to hit one-handed with his left hand.  Several parents noticed and made comments about it.  The very last kid did finally bust the pinata open and they all swarmed around the candy.  The little guys, including Collin, stood around and did not know what was going on.  I told him to get in close to get some candy and he did.  He ended up getting 7 pieces of candy which he counted for me and was very proud to get. 

Then, it was time to sing Dane Happy Birthday and blow out the candles. Collin two bites of his piece of cake (not a shock to me) and wanted to play more instead of eating the rest of the cake before we had to leave....which he did not want to do.

Counting his candy loot

Not bad holding the plate and eating some of his cake