'Time Bomb'
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Yay Gar! Great news!
Poor Isaac missed out on a party this year because of the timing of my MiL's passing, but we may throw a yay!summer! party and pretend it's for his birthday. He did have his birthday celebrated on 3 separate occasions, so it isn't like he wasn't feted.
I want that Diagon Alley like whoa. Want Hagrid's Hut and Hogwarts Castle too. Forget about my son, I may have a Lego problem.
The nice thing about having Aeryn with a babysitter instead of in a group daycare is that we'll avoid the "invite everyone in the class" trap for at least the next few years. And when she's old enough to know about birthday parties, I fully intend to enforce the "number of guests = year of age" rule. Ah well, the lessons you learn with the second kid.
My mother got out of much in the way of birthday parties by having 3 children born in the span of 5 days. Also there was less of this Must Have Big Birthday thing then. The big one I remember was a surprise 1/2 birthday party one March (age 10 or so).
Dillo turns 5 next month, and he is convinced he will be having his party at Pump It Up. Which would remove any planning from me, but cost $125 at a minimum, so probably not. I need to work on talking him into a family potluck at the lake.
I want that Diagon Alley like whoa. Want Hagrid's Hut and Hogwarts Castle too. Forget about my son, I may have a Lego problem.
Emmett's got Hogwarts and Hagrid's hut. They're really fun because there are all sorts of little fiddley bits - hidden doorways, and things that open and move.
Dillo turns 5 next month, and he is convinced he will be having his party at Pump It Up. Which would remove any planning from me, but cost $125 at a minimum, so probably not.
That's where Matilda wants her birthday too.
They're really fun because there are all sorts of little fiddley bits - hidden doorways, and things that open and move.
Damn it. I'm usually quite resistant to neat toys that I don't actually need, but I may have met my match.
Congrats Typo! I'm relieved.
Growing up my Mom's rule for birthdays was to only invite guests equal to my age plus 1. I don't think there was a big - invite everyone from the class push and she didn't do the invites during class (I don't know I'm vague on it all). But it worked for me because I didn't like big crowds.
For the fizzy water people, are you using bottled water or tap water? Our tap water is pretty hard, and I'm wondering how that would affect the process.
I use tap water, and ours is exceptionally hard, and it hasn't been a problem at all.