Birthdays Abound

This weekend we attended three birthday parties within a 24 hour period. It was exhausting but a lot of fun and well worth the effort of attending all three in such a short span.

The weekend celebration kicked off Friday night at Kalista's 6th birthday party. Kalista is the daughter of my good friend Michaela (who sadly will be leaving in July as her husband is getting out of the military). Kalista is also the first little girl that Jake seems somewhat smitten with. At his birthday party in April when I asked whom he wanted seated next to him at the party table, he choose her over all his other guy pals. At any rate, Kalista was having a sleepover party but the kids and I were invited to join in the evening's party activities beforehand. This meant that Jake was only the boy there (other than Kalista's little brother Malachi who is Jadyn's age) with 5 other girls in his age range. Of course, Jake loved all the extra attention he received. I don't think he minded being the only boy one bit. What do you think?

Saturday we went to the 5th birthday party for a t-ball teammate of Jake's. Sam was not only a fellow Grasshopper but he will be a kindergartner in the fall at the same elementary school Jake is attending and since Jake's preschool was the next town over, its nice to know that Jake will already have at least one buddy.

Finally, later on Saturday we went to the third birthday party of little Aden, a fellow playgroup friend of Jadyn's. What made this celebration even more special was that the kids former Kindermusik teacher, Ms. Heather had agreed to conduct a party session for the event before she moves in a couple of weeks. (Can you tell we live in a military community where summer is a big time for duty station moves?). Jake and Jadyn were so happy to see her and jumped right in, playing with the music and participating in the festivities. I cannot say that Jadyn made it through the entire party without a few meltdowns but at that point it was understandable being that we had been going all day.

I love birthday parties and I feel very blessed that we have been invited to join in so many celebrations as of late. However, I am also quite happy to report that as of right now, we have no parties on our schedule in the near future. Because as I mentioned birthday parties are exhausting. Fun, but exhausting.