Today was J's Avatar birthday party. He had a wonderful time, tons of fun, a complete success. (His real birthday is next week, I'll do his birthday post then.)
I had different feelings. I was bummed that only two kids came and one of them kept talking about another party that he was leaving our party early to attend ("I better not drink soda, I'll have a lot at the other party", "No cake for me, I'll have some at the other party", "It's Ok that the pizza is late, I'll have some at the other party."). At least one of our other no-shows went to the other party that J wasn't invited to. My happy birthday boy was oblivious (I think). The important thing is that J. had a great time, but I'm left wondering what happened to social graces and manners. I'm no stickler but don't say you're coming to soothe my feelings only to not come. Telling me the truth, that you won't attend, does far less harm (if any) than not showing up. This is one of the reasons siblings are great - J. had a full table at his party because his sisters were excited to be part of the fun.
The kids played asteroids (a game rolling balls on the floor, not arcade), decorated treat bags, hunted for alien creatures in the basement with flashlights, made a space map on scratch art paper, had air blaster rocket wars, birthday cake and alien slime (sprite and sherbet). And eventually, after an hour and 10 minute wait, ate pizza.
None of the boys wanted to decorate the blue masks (Avatar theme). This is a big difference between boy parties and girl parties, they weren't into the crafty activities - it was all about the action. They also had little interest in watching the Space Shuttle liftoff video I checked out from the library. In comparison to Star Trek and Star Wars those old Space Shuttle liftoffs are pretty tame. They're cool to me because they're really real, something that might escape 7 year olds. So maybe I'll have an adult space party for my birthday. (DH, Rach and I watched the Challenger disaster and inquiry from the same NASA DVD set, that was interesting. I freaked Rach because I played the liftoff without telling her what would happen - a good history lesson ;)
After finding nothing in the stores to help me carry off an Avatar theme it was all up to me. We used blue plates, napkins, tablecloth and I made the cake myself. If you ever need to replicate the Avatar font it's 'papyrus'. Just so ya know, because hey, you could need an emergency Avatar poster at any time.
(The color on the cake looks weird, base color is black, lettering light blue - or I should say "was" it's gone!)
Despite the rudeness of some of the invitees, I'd say it was a successful party! Hunting for alien creatures in the basement sounds like fun. And good job on the cake, yum.
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