Noah orchestrated his pirates vs. knights battle, including the use
of his cardboard-box hide-outs. Aaron continues to describe it as "the sword-fight party" (the highest compliment). And Isaac...well, let's just
say he has embraced a world that includes cake.
The
boys were thrilled that Josh and I wore costumes (a pirate &
princess), and that we had armaments aplenty for our guests who arrived
"unprepared" (swords, homemade shields, & felt eye patches). The main activities
were bouncing (a garage sale find), decorating pirate maps, hunting for
treasure (think egg hunt with plastic "goblets"), and--of
course--eating. All in the lovely chaos of dear friends and family and toys and squeals. Life is good.
Now--if the boys have their way--to start planning for next year... ;)
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| Bonding with sweet friends and family |
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| An "authentic" menu that Noah & Aaron had carefully chosen, including hard tack (crostini), pirate cheese (baby bels), maggots (yogurt raisins), and fish (fish tacos). |
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| The next day, when I asked the boys for their favorite part of the party, they both said the "knights and pirate cake!" Score one for Amazon + Costco. |
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| Isaac was less certain about the prospect of a large cubic brown thing, but he was more than willing to down my piece of cake, bite by bite, while sitting on my lap. |
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| And the after-party where they opened presents with my family... |
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| And immediately began playing with them -- even the food everyone brought for Graceworks. |
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