Keegan is turning 8
November flew by and we found ourselves immersed in the crazy holiday time, which for us includes, of course, the big Birthday of our not-so-little-anymore boy.
The mad rush starts early, well before Thanksgiving, with gifts choosing and party planning , and this year the latter particularly complicated. We decided to have a movie theater party, thinking it would be simple. Ah: how mistaken I was! After a little back and forth, we settled on The Good Dinosaur, the last Pixar’s adventure.
That was the easy part: deciding the date was the almost impossible task. We chose Sunday morning, December 6. We sent out invitations and started collecting RSVP…till one other mom reminded us that it was the same day of the La Jolla Christmas Parade, and that many of the kids, Keegan included, were participating with the school band. Panic! I scrambled to find alternatives: Saturday morning was already taken by another birthday party from one of his classmates.
Saturday afternoon was conflicting with other kids’ engagements (plus it was more expensive). However, in the end, we did settle on Saturday pm, and sent a flurry of new emails to let everyone know. New set of RSVP started arriving. To make things more complex, for an anxious person like me, the theater would not announce the final schedule or allow you to purchase tickets more than 4 days in advance…so here goes another set of emails were sent with the final time, and one more to tell everyone to ignore the automatic reminder, that still showed the wrong date. Phew, that was quite the undertaking.
All the while, the preparation for the actual big day were happening in the earnest. Keegan went to bed excited, after cuddling with Fireball.
We got everything ready on the nick of time.
Keegan woke up bright and early, and rushed into our bedroom to see his presents: what a loot! He got a skateboard, a Star Wars Lego set from each us and his grandparents, some catching game from my sister, more Star Wars 7 stuff, and cards. He was very happy.
He was particularly excited about the skateboard, a present he asked for repeatedly (and that he has barely touched sine, of course).
He asked to blow his candles over sugar sprinkles pancakes.
Then, off to work and school. December 3rd fell on a Thursday, which meant two separate set of snacks: gelato and strawberries for his classroom and cookies and Nutella croissants, lovingly filled by me, for his Italian class. I met him at MBMA for his special celebration: I was a couple of minutes late, but still got the enjoy it. It is great to see him being celebrated. He talked all about him, via a large poster he made, and blew out a huge candle.
Then, he got to choose which friends would get dessert first, based on their behavior, I guess. It was sunny, so they all ate outside.
After school, I met Ana, Alessandro’s mother, by a struck of luck, and knowing how stressed I was , she offered to take the kids to Italian class AND bring them back, so I could take a breather! What a great gift! So I went home, and relaxed a bit, and of course, also tried to get caught up.
When both of my boys got home, we had another small celebration, and posed for sweet and silly pictures. Fireball wanted to be part of the celebration as well.
Matt had to go to LA for the night, but he helped me getting the goodie bags ready before he left. Of course the party theme was Star Wars VII
Saturday morning, I went shopping, and got the house ready, while Matt had party duty.The other boy’s party was at…Pump It Up, where Keegan, originally wanted to have his celebration, again.
Finally the time had come, and we met everyone at the theater: 15 kids total, 5 girls and 10 boys…and three moms to coral them all. We settled on the top rows, Keegan’s favorites, and got all the kids settled in with their snacks. Keegan got called down, to his great embarrassment, and the whole theater, which was mainly us, sang happy birthday to him.
The movie was cute, and the kids, for the most part, behaved. It was hard to drag them out of the theater though, since all the boys were glued to the preview for Star Wars VII The Force Awakens.
After the movie, we carpooled to our house, and the kids ran wild, and played with the cat. We calmed them down with snacks, pizza and cake…well, donuts cake to be exact. Keegan insisted on it, so donuts cake we got, decorated in the Star Wars VII theme.
It was a success. Keegan even got to open his presents with his friends, which he always wanted to do, and boy, did he get a lot!
By the time the last kids left, Keegan was so tired he was basically ready to bed…and so were we. We were happy that all the hard work had paid off and he had a wonderful birthday. We were even happier, thought, at the thought that, for another year we do not have to worry about it!
Happy birthday, my little, big boy!!!!
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