Alejandro, Luis, Mary, and Diego: Happy Birthday Party Day

This afternoon, we had a few of Luis's friends over to celebrate his birthday. Whenever one of the wished him a Happy Birthday, he was to point out, "It's NOT my birthday today." So, we settled on wishing him a Happy Birthday Party Day, to which he was only slightly more amenable. We invited five friends over, and four of them made it: Caleb, Elijah (from PDO last year), Will and Colin (both carpool buddies at the Science School) - all from the neighborhood.

I brought down Luis's three "building toys" (blocks, legos, Gears) and told Luis that this was a Downstairs Party. The main activity was decorating cupcakes. That part was a hit, but I didn't manage to get any pictures of it.

Luis has long been wearing Super Chupies, as part of various super hero costumes. He has, on many, many occasions, offered to loan his friends some, but never with success. Well, not today. In the blink of an eye, all five boys were wearing Super Chupies and running around the house like crazy four year olds jacked up on too much icing and cupcakes (in that order), er Super Heroes.

All of the boys "suiting up"

This photo reminds me so much of the old Batman shows, where Batman and Robin would duke it out with the bad guys. This afternoon, it was a little difficult to tell who the good and bad guys were, though everyone was having a good time. It was also difficult for the boys to remember that the pushing and hitting and fighting was supposed to be pretend.

Luis, Elijah and Caleb (the knight)

Colin, Will and Elijah strike their best Super Hero poses. Will won!

Colin, Elijah, Luis and Will sporting their Super Chupies. Caleb was feeling a little camera shy.

I'm not sure how this game got started. I asked Diego to keep an eye on the boys in the front room for a few minutes. Next thing I know, he's dragging them all - all FIVE of them - around by his feet. They were squealing and shouting with laughter. Diego was exhausted. That was probably more than 175lbs worth of 4 year olds he was dragging!

Shortly after this, Diego moved the party outside, which was a brilliant move. It appeared that all of the sugar from the cupcakes and icing had hit the blood stream, and the boys had A TON of energy.