Wishing my son, who has brought so much joy into our lives, the happiest of 7th bdays! May he always be surrounded by sweet friends and loving family, and may he always reciprocate in kind!
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We celebrated Dylan’s bday a couple of weeks back with a party that he mostly planned!
He wanted an ice cream party with a raffle (K. won the raffle!) and an obstacle course with only a few friends (Nate, Finley, Taliana and K., Marlon, Maya, and Ellie; siblings Cleo, and Camille; and Cameron got to invite one special guest, Jada. Of course, Tyler came, too!) and that is exactly what he got!!!
He didn’t want cake, so we made some brownies that were intended to be for the ice cream sundaes the kids made, but we forgot about that, so it was a sugary after-thought!
Anyway, Dylan is really into making agendas right now and, for his party planning, it was no different.
Long, long ago (like around Cameron’s party or Taliana’s), he told me his party agenda and I wrote it down:
– Opening: free play (I decided ice cream shrinky dinks might be fun, so we had kids do that while we waited for everyone to arrive)
– free choice time
– obstacle course: I came up with some ideas which Dylan then approved (dribble a ball 10x, shoot a basket, go up the stairs to the playhouse and throw balls into a bucket, walk backwards 10 steps, skip all the way back to the steps, run zig zag through cone course and then take a loop on a plasma car)
– circle time: this ended up being ice-cream making time; each kid got their baggy of ingredients and were instructed to shake it up until their ice cream firmed up.
This last thing was purely an experimental activity, but since we were surrounded by just close friends and family, I didn’t much care if it flopped, and we had back-up ice cream and sorbets waiting in the freezer!
As it turned out, it went well! The kids were very excited and energetic with the shaking of baggies. Afterwards, they decorated up their goodies and gobbled them up!
Kids doing the shrinky dinks while waiting for the others to arrive.
Dylan helped trace the medals out of cardboard and cover them with foil. At the party, the kids could pick an ice cream sticker to slap on to the front. In typical Dylan style, Dylan drew his own ice cream cone in pen on one side of it (he loves art)!
It was a very sweet bday for our very sweet son who continues to inspire me and remind me of just how wonderful life is!
He has grown into such a great creative and analytical thinker and he has such a big heart. I don’t think it would be exaggeration to say that I learn something from him everyday–from school topics and his own insights to how to be a loving and giving person. He is an inspiration. We love this guy to pieces!
