Here is our sensitive and wonderful 9-year old guy, blowing out candles for his second bday celebration! He didn’t want a party this year, so it was all low-key and spontaneous actually.
Since he didn’t want a party, we asked him what special activity he’d like to do instead and he chose mini-golf at the Boardwalk with K., T., and Maya and K. and T. spent the night as well!
Anyone needing tips on putting can get them from Cameron!
After mini-golf, we had a snack and headed out towards the Boardwalk…of course, in our planning, we completely forgot to account for the Memorial Day weekend crowd and it was crowded out there! Tom literally got the second to last parking spot in the lot way on the far end of the Boardwalk! Soooo, although we had initially thought we could do some rides after golfing, we quickly killed that plan.
Luckily, the kids were content to head out to the sand for just some free play. It was pretty sweet to watch them.
And, we were reunited with Chloe, A. and Tom who did not get to mini-golf because 1) we started without the guys while they were out hunting for parking and 2) Chloe couldn’t bear the noise inside Neptune’s Kingdom (our 3rd sensitive little thing!).
Dylan chose Thai food for dinner after which we mowed through yet another batch of yummy mint chocolate cupcakes! (I hope all of his wishes come true)…!
Dylan’s actual bday was on a Wednesday and it was during state testing at school…and he was still feeling sick from last Thursday! But, I came back from my morning run with Jenny with goodies from Emily’s (as is often the case)–chocolate loaf and some sourdough bread. We slapped some candles on the chocolate loaf (which turned out to be trick candles!) and sang happy bday first thing in the morning.
Tom made up the batch of cupcakes this year and I hurried them over to his classroom after school. It turns out they were in music class–a good thing since there were only 24 and with 23 in the class and 2 teacher aides, there wouldn’t have been enough for everyone! And, of course, nobody was absent because of testing. I caught the kids on their way out of music, though, and they all happily grabbed one. Sadly, not a single cupcake left for Chloe or Cameron, but Dylan kindly offered to share his with Cameron!
