Frost looked forward to his birthday with great zeal. One day I asked him what he wanted to do that day and he said "plan my birthday". The next day it was "think about my birthday" and things continued this way through the countdown to Saturday 27th July. Frost had his party over a week after his actual birthday because of our vacation in Oregon. The only good thing about Wren's postponed cath was that it gave us more time to focus on birthday preparation and we used every second.
Frost's birthday party was at the Bellevue Lego Store. We had an hour of supervised 'freeplay' with Star Wars themed lego. It was a great success. Not only did the boys enjoy making their creations - fleets, armies, bases - but the lego store employees played with them creating imaginary battles between the Sith and the Jedi (their base versus the boys' creations). This made the time pass quickly. The shopping for party favors afterwards was also a lot of fun.
After the Lego store event we returned home in our minibus convoy (thanks to Susan and Brian for driving some kids) of 4 adults and 11 kids. At home we had a quest for jewels which the kids earned and found around the house. They were guided by a web-based application Josh wrote which prompted them with questions for each stage. It was pretty nifty.
Josh, Frost and I on his birthday.
Frost building his army at the Lego Store.
The board I made (and painted) with nooks to place 100 jewels earned in the quest. Frost referred to this as the Knight's Shield.
The boys (and Eve) making Sundaes.
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