5 Years Old: Party #1

It's about time I blog about Tobias' birthday. And what a birthday it was. Of course 5 is quite a respectable age for a 5 year old :-). So, a respectable party would be in place, right? Well, Tobias had 3 parties this year! The first one was with his school friends on Saturday. That was quite the deal. We had a theme... guess what it was.... CARS! Tobias had sent Cars invitations to 5 boys from his class. Of course no girls were invited, because Cars is for boys, pricesses are for girls :-). Anyway, we had invited them to come over around 11 and had them picked up at 14:00. Well, somebody with more experience in this area told us that would be kind of long, and she turned out to be right, although it was quite nice as it was.

We started with gift-giving. Tobias got some nice stuff that most of the boys had hand-picked themselves. He got some cars stuff (what else?), a cowboy hat, some other cars, a flash-light... and then some... After that they played with the gifts for a bit before our first activity: drawing a racetrack on the table. I had put paper all over the tabletop and I sat them around the table so they could each draw a section of the track. Then they drew start and finish, some flags and lines on the road etc. When they were done they each picked one of Tobias' Cars figures and started racing on the track, i.e. running around the table with a car in their hand :-). That was fun to watch. We had gotten each of them a Cars shooter, which is a little Lightning McQueen figure that you can pop out of a thing. They played with that for a while. Then it was lunchtime. We made fries and meat-balls and served them on the table (no plates or anything...). They liked that :-). Dessert was: Lightning McQueen cake! It was a beautiful cake, but it was hell to make.....


After dessert two and a half hour had passed, and the party was pretty much over. Fortunately they were good kids so they played for a while before their parents picked them up. It was a great party!


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