paxton's friend party

Paxton has been counting down the number of "sleeps" before his "friends" birthday party for weeks! The anticipation was high, and he would ask me on a daily basis, "Did anyone else's mom say they could come to my party today?" He sent out 11 invitations and 6 friends were able to make it. He chose to have his party at the Vogel Fieldhouse so they could run wild in the gym. Before we let them loose though, we played some games, had snacks and cupcakes, and opened presents.

I was able to get some good smiles out of some of them with the promise that the next picture could be silly faces.

They played Pass the Pickle.

Harlow was one of the last ones in the game. These two took it very seriously; eyes on the pickle, hand off quickly....it was pretty funny. And Harlow was defeated.

We let them frost and decorate their own cupcakes. You can imagine how exciting that was for 9 kids with free reign on frosting, candy, and sprinkles!

Once we had them wired on sugar, we sent them off into the gym to let loose! And it was 60 minutes straight of running and screaming. Paxton had the best time! And just by chance, his teacher was running the track and popped in to say hello to several of her students. Paxton was genuinely grateful for each friend that came to celebrate him, and that made me happy for him and proud of him.